Group Project - Missed Filming Dates

Filming has been an unstable process for me in the last few months, whilst filming both my individual and helping out with the group work. Whilst it certainly was a lengthily chore during my individual project, I probably had it a little easy when it came to the group work. This was primarily because I'd only managed to make it to two days worth of filming, and within this blog I will show what the guys had achieved and why I had missed these dates.

Whilst Filming Probably wasn't this unstable for me... it Still Proved difficult!

Unfortunately for the group work I was only available for two of the filming days, as my job at WHSmith's required me to work some extra hours. The first of these days was Good Friday and I'd had it booked for a long time before we decided on filming dates. For this day Dean and Monish went to film at the Somerset Legion House, and from what they explained to me they managed to film a good few interviews (and some bad ones) although did come across some technical hitches along the way.

Unfortunately I was busy working during one of our filming days...

It was a shame I'd missed this as I would have liked to of helped out especially considering I'd been along with Monish the week before to talk to the manager of the Legion house. I feel because of this it would have looked a lot better had I turned up a week later, unfortunately the dates of filming were organised without my knowing and when Dean and Monish called me on the day, I was already at work. I feel this lapse of communication may have effected my position in the group as Director considering I wasn't available to make our first proper day of filming and the other guys had to call the shots without me. Whilst the other guys couldn't have helped it and it was in no way their fault, I did feel disappointed that my role as director had become a little bit 'touch and go' and I felt instead to be playing more of a 'best boy' part.

It seemed that my role as Director had been forgotten and i was now more of a best boy, mainly holding the boom mic!!

The second of these days was when Dean went to film his Nan who we'd decided to include as an additional contributor. I was also unavailable for this day too, however Dean had made arrangements to go up on his own anyway and had his parents to help out with the filming. This was a good choice by him as the footage of his nan's interview is really good and would work well in our film.