Filming

Today we went to Southend (via the train) to shoot our film footage, we went to various different locations to get the footage we desired. By the end of the day we had all the footage we wanted to get at Southend. 

We started filming at Chelmsford Train Station where Katie and Frankie filmed me walking through the barriers from behind, walking up the stairs from above and walking along the platform from across. They then shot me walking onto a train from behind, we tried to make sure shots like these were good as we didn't have many opportunities to re-shoot. We had already accounted for train timings so that we weren't waiting around and were able to make the most of the time we had to shoot at the train station. We watched most of the footage we got at the train station to make sure if we needed to re-shoot it we used our time wisely and where possible in the same places. 

We got on a train to Chelmsford and Katie and Frankie alternatively filmed me whilst I walked through the train to find a seat. This shot also took a few takes as we hadn't thought about the stability of the train and we fell a few times whilst trying to film. We also got the other shots we needed which included, looking at the scrapbook and looking out the Window. 

We had a bit of spare time when we were waiting for the train from Shenfield to Southend so we re-shot the footage where I walked onto the train as when we watched the footage back we saw that someone was staring straight into the camera. We found this quite common throughout the day that people kept staring at the camera when we tried to film but I think we got enough shots without people doing that.  

When we reached Southend we went straight to the seafront as that was where we wanted to shoot the majority of our footage. Straight away we ran into a problem as we discovered Adventure Island wasn't open and we were hoping to shoot some of our footage there so we discussed quickly as to where else we could get some footage so that we wouldn't fall short of 2 minutes when we edited. 

We shot quite a large part of the footage in an arcade where Katie and I featured on an car racing game and Frankie and I had a game of air hockey. It was really busy in there so we tried to go the quieter corners of the arcade so that we didn't get others in the shot.

Then we went to the seafront and got some shots of Katie and I walking down the pier and Frankie filmed a panning shot of the seafront and she got the sunset into it as we filmed at the right time of the sun setting which was in front of me as I looked forward towards it. We also shot the sun setting from the lift at the top of the hill which over looked the sea front. This concluded the footage we wanted to get from that day. Over all it went really well and we got most of the footage we wanted and we were happy with the quality of it.