Filming and Editing

Making sure we were sticking to our shooting schedule, Mikey and I filmed the scenes that we storyboarded a week or so previous. There was however going to be some obstacles that we may have had to overcome throughout filming; External Factors that may have an effect on our filming; Weather (will have to be assessed on the day, if possible we could use the good and bad weather in our trailer to reflect the mood of the protagonist- pathetic fallacy) Health and Safety e.g. when using cars (must be overcome and assessed before we undertake and filming, however due to my job I have passed several health and safety, injury prevention and injury treatment tests) Time of day (this should be overcome when creating the shooting schedule, however we must take into account that the length of the days will be varying slightly throughout the time of our production) Permission (this could be from parents, landowners or copyright from record companies. This was overcome when creating the storyboard and shooting schedule though) Technology (this was one of my worst fears when briefed about our A2 coursework, as I am no techno-buff. However, this point is spontaneous for every piece of equipment) Costs e.g. petrol costs (luckily Mikey and myself managed to do this without spending a penny- apart from a Dairy Milk chocolate bar for our rugby coach, for featuring in our trailer and letting us use any sports equipment whenever we needed it) Once the filming was completed (a few days late due to weather conditions too inappropriate to bring in the idea of pathetic fallacy), we were required to edit the clips, put them in order as decided in our storyboard and assign the edits we had decided on previously. In terms of editing, the mark scheme required us to use a wide variety of types of edits, so we have tried to employ this idea. We chose to edit our footage on Windows Movie Maker as it is simple software to use yet still has the ability to make a effective coherent product.