Blog Task; First day of filming evaluation

In this blog task i am going to be evaluating our first day of filming.

We decided forehand that the first day of filming would take place on Saturday the 26th of November. After meeting most of the members of the group at 12 pm Finsbury park station, i took the members to my house where the equipment was located. We first recorded the areas of Parkling walk, Finsbury park. We took many random shots that would contribute to the eerie feel within our title sequence.
We recorded other shots at Ossian road such as the Laundrette. We then went to crouch hill to record the interior of a baptists church, and then crouch end to record shots such as the Union church exterior which would make up most of our title sequence.

Problems/Solutions:
As a whole, our first filming day consisted of almost no problems, and the problems that did occur were very minimalistic. One of the few problems we had were keeping to our schedule; the main idea was to meet up at exactly 12pm Finsbury Park Station where i would collect up all three members of the group, retrieve the equipment and have a full meaningful day of filming. Instead, one of the members had left their house late meaning that we could not keep to the schedule. We overcame this by recording whatever shots we could, then when the final member arrived we met them at Mcdonalds.
The second problem that occurred was the filming interiors of Union Church crouch end, we noticed that a service was being conducted on both the first floor and the basement daycare level. I overcame this by leading my group to the Crouch Hill baptists church where i asked the priest if we were able to record the interior, He said yes thus allowing us to get many amazing shots for our title sequence.
The last problem was the recording at Parkling Walk, there were many pedestrians walking by consistently due to us recording in a public space during day time. The only solution avbailable was to wait until there were fewer people and quickly record shots.

Filming process:The process of filming for our title sequence was very unsettled in a good sense. Our method was that if we were closest to what was available to be filmed, we would record those shots first and then travel to areas that were further away to record. As said before, the first shots that were recorded were the sinister shots in Parkling Walk. Originally we planned on recording a few panning shots and cut ins of a railway track behind a fence-this became a problem as the camera was not focusing on the fence and parkling walk was literally a few seconds away and was much more viable.
We recorded some free-hand,panning and wideshots of the forest. The tripod became very useful as we were able to record some great stable shots.
 This worked well as the context of both the music we planned to use and the location allows the viewer to get a sense of danger.
One of the shots we included were actually inspired by Donnie Darko.

After recording these shots the other shots became very useful as all the locations were relatively close by. we travelled to crouch end and made use of the tripod once more recording a ton of great exterior shots of the churches. It did become a little dark; i made use of the dedo-light and set it up for Ersila. She then shone light upon the painted wall(with children) and finished the exterior shots of Union Church. We finally went to Baptist Church and recorded shots of the stained glass, then after getting permission recording the interior of the church. We again made use of the tripod and recorded many panning shots, wideshots, a few close ups and a mid shot.
In conclusion our first filming day went very great and was overall successful.