FILMING

I have started my filming process over the Christmas holidays. On the 3rd of January I went to savernake forest to film the forest scenes, however I had a problem when I got there. I was attempting to film at 5pm however it was too dark for the camera to pick up any movement, I could only see the sky in the distance. I decided to come back the next day on the 4th of January at 3pm and the filming was much more successful. I will next upload the footage to iMovie and edit the footage to try make it appear a bit darker. I am aiming to finish my filming on Friday evening and if I need to I could film a bit more over the weekend.

 It was too wet on Friday evening so I decided to postpone until Saturday. On Saturday the 8th I filmed the scenes at my house that will be used for the opening few scenes of my trailer. I feel that it went pretty well and I used a few different types of shot and will choose the best one when I do my editing. This will make it a lot easier as I should be able to just use my current filming and wont have to re-shoot it. Unfortunately I have been unable to shoot the train scene which is very disappointing as not many trains will be running on a Sunday so I will have to wait until next week to film these scenes. Hoverer in the meantime I will be able to upload my footage and begin to edit it.

The final day of filming if all goes to plan and no re-shoots are done. It was on Friday the 10th of January. It was fairly dark but still visible to see the area so very good lighting. It was perfectly timed as well because as soon as I got to the other side of the train tracks (filming from my point of view) the train sounded its horn so was perfect for when I turned around. This made the filming really quick and looked believable. So after the days filming I was very happy with how it had turned out after watching it back on the camera. I will be importing the footage onto the computer on Monday morning and then will begin to edit it all together.

 Massive problem accrued. The filming that I shot on Friday night at the train crossing is not being detected by the apple iMovie. I have tried importing using an SD reader, and putting the SD card into a different camera but nothing is working. I decided to take it to the technicians to see if they could heklp but after an hour of many different ideas we had to give up. We decided that the SD card is not working properly and has probably messed up the filing that I had done. So I will have to re-shoot the train scene as soon as possible.

 On Friday the 17th I re-shot the train scene and it wasn't as good as the first time, however  it still looks good. We had to wait 45 minutes for a train to go by but luckily the lighting hadn't changed dramatically. I will try putting this filming onto the computer on monday and hope it works this rime.

 All the filming is now been successfully uploaded onto the computer and most has been edited. I will continue to edit throughout this week to get it finished.