First Day of Filming

We began the filming for our opening sequence today and have started to make progress with the project. We have scripted much of the dialogue and already filmed a couple of scenes which we will use to build our opening around. We also started to think about sound for our film, having chosen a possible soundtrack and emailed the copyright owner in order to get their permission to use it. The song is 'These Love Songs Don't Make Sense' by The Vindickers. The song is relevant to the genre of our film (romantic comedy) as it deals with the theme of love, also dealt with by this genre of film. It is also useful as the Vindickers are a local band that I am in contact with and so it should not be difficult to obtain permission for use of their material.

We encoutered some problems during filming; mostly because of the time of year in which we are making our film meaning it gets dark fairly early, limiting the hours in which it is possible to film outside. We did not forsee this as a problem but are now aware of it and can therefore prepare more effectively for this eventuality by filming outside scenes earlier in the day and leaving inside seens for later as we can use artificial light for these. Another problem which we encoutered was the camera running out of battery. In future we will make sure it is fully charged before we begin filming, hoever this time it was not a huge problem as in the time it took to re-charge we were able to script a large proportion of the dialogue from the later scenes which we are still yet to film. We also managed to arrange the next day of filmimg which will be saturday providing that the weather is still workable with.