Group Project - Filming at Flower Down House and North Somerset Museum

Whilst I had missed out on a few days, I did manage to make it to the other two filming days where we filmed cutaways and went to the RAF holiday home at Flower Down house. When we went to film the cutaways at Grove Park, it had been the first time in a while where we'd all used a camera. Because of this I felt that the time we got to film the cutaways really jogged our memories and got us back into the filming spirit. We each had a turn at filming, although I feel that my time was very limited due to the numerous shots Monish and Dean had planned. This was fine though as a lot of their ideas were great and showed me they obviously had a great vision to what the final film should look like. This firmly established Monish's role as Cinematographer, although did make me feel a little unbefitting as the Director; the supposed Visionary of a film.

A Handheld Viewing of Grove Park, Showing the Memorial we filmed for cutaways

After filming in Grove park we went on to the North Somerset Museum where we greeted by the manager and asked whether we could film their World War 2 exhibition. Since coming to the museum was a rather 'on the cusp' idea we assumed that she would decline, however she seemed pretty interested in the film and (after we paid at a special discounted price) she let us in with our filming equipment. From here we managed to film a lot of pictures and old war documents which we were sure would make great cutaway shots. I did get a go with the camera in here, although this was a rather tedious process of slow pans and simply pressing record for some pictures. I had a good amount of time filming within the museum although obviously didn't get much chance to experiment with different shots. We were very appreciative of the access the Museum had given us and were very pleased with the shots we achieved.

North Somerset Museum, W-S-M

The second day I joined them was when filming the veterans at Flower Down House, and was another day of group progression. We managed to get a good few interviews from the people there, and all went rather smoothly and without any hassle. There seemed to be no problems with the equipment and from what the guys told me the day went a lot smoother then when they filmed across the road in the Somerset Legion house - we were even treated to tea and cake! The people there were exceptionally nice and had no problems answering our questions which were great and very helpful. During our time there Monish asked the questions, whilst Dean filmed and I was in charge of sound. I had no problem doing this although admittedly my arms did start to ache after some of the veterans longer answers. The only issue I had on the day was the lack of input I really had within the session of filming, which was understandable since I'd missed filming at the Legion house previously although likewise feel my position as director had further been discarded.

Our Interviews may have not been as professional as this, But we were certainately happy with what we got!!

All in all, after seeing the footage I was genuinely quite happy with what we'd achieved. Of course everything had to be edited still, but from the footage we'd got it made me quite intrigued and really interested in getting the film done.

I was most happy with what we'd filmed!!