1ST DAY OF FILMING EVALUATION

1^st day of filming evaluation 8/12/15

LOCATION: WALKWAY. THIS IS WHERE THE HUSBAND AND SISTER HANG UP THE MISSING POSTERS

What went well:

• Considering that it was our first official day of filming, everyone remembered and were well organised. Every group member got permission from their form tutor to go out during lunch and stay out until we were finished. This meant missing a compulsory registration in school,  owever all group member were granted authorisation and were allow to miss it. The group showed great organisation and responsibility
• The general quality of the filming and footage was good. The various scenes that were shot were to every body’s satisfaction and overall, all members of the group were content with the final product
• Throughout the filming, all members of the group were consistently contributing ideas as to what would make of footage better. There was good team work shown and all members were cooperative with each other.  
• The quality of the acting was of a good standard. We did not use external members of the group; however the actors we did use did a brilliant job. This was good because it saved a lot of time due to the fact that we didn’t have to find other actors who were good enough. This also allowed everyone to have a specific role and know exactly what they were doing. 

Problems we faced during the day:

• Pedestrians often walked past whilst we were filming which meant we had to stop a couple of times, not only top ensure that they weren’t offended, but to make sure that they did not obstruct our filming. This proved to be very time consuming and delayed the efficiency of our filming overall.
• One of the tripods that we hired out did not rotate 360 degrees. This proved to be difficult due to the fact that we hired two tripods so that we could experiment and shoot two different angles for our filming. However due the second tripod not rooting 360 degrees, it was essentially useless to us and consequently we did not use. 
• On our first day of shooting, it was a very sunny day, which produced very harsh lighting for footage, This made various clips hard to view and generally disrupted the quality of our videos. We consistently had to change the positions of the camera to ensure that the light in our footage was correct.  
• One of our group members brought his own camera from home, so that we could have more cameras to have more footage with. Unfortunately, the memory card from the camera brought from home was not working, and general technical difficulties were experienced with this camera. 

Even better next time if:

Next time, to improve on our filming day, we could potentially pick a better day to film so that the members of the public don’t interfere with our filming. Also, before we start to film, we could make sure that we practice in all conditions so that we don't experience problems due to wether conditions. However, all round, our first filming day was successful and we all feel that it can only get better from here.

PICTURES FROM OUR FIRST DAY OF SHOOTING: