Filming!

When filming for our preliminary task my group experienced some difficulties and problems, but found ways to resolve them. We also made some minor changes from what we originally planned to make the end result of our film as best as we could make it in the time we were given.
None of us are used to handling filming equipment as we were all new to it but still tried our best to cope and to make it as good as we could. Once the cameras were set up how we wanted, it seemed less difficult as all we had to do for the dialogue was to keep it in the same position, but this was sometimes not easy to do. I found it useful working with the cameras as it has made me much more aware of how to do it and how to film footage.
Some of the difficulties we faced when filming were mostly down to trying to make it continuous. Before we started filming I don’t think we considered how difficult it was going to be to stick to the rules we were given by changing from one shot to another to make it look continuous. We resolved this by keeping the cameras in one position, trying our best not to move it so the film will run smoothly and not make the audience confused. At times it was difficult to stick to both the storyboard and the script as when your filming you realise the shots that we planned to do, no long work and we would benefit from not including it. We also struggled with using some of the equipment like the dolly as the ground we was filming on was not smooth and we were worried it was going to show on camera. We resolved this by moving the camera slower to make it run smoother.     
We made a few changes from what we had originally planned on our storyboard. We did this as some parts we felt did not need to be included. We had planned on doing a close up on his feet when he is walking down the corridor but felt it would take up too much vital time that we needed to use to film the essential parts. We also changed how we were going to film the ending. Our original plan was to have the camera tracking backwards and having the door slam shut, but soon discovered it was a lot more difficult to do this than expected and to actually make it look sufficient.
We did not have to re-film any of our film as we all decided that there was no feed for us to. If there were concerns on parts of our film then we could have considered filming some parts again but for us this was unnecessary.
I think my group prepared ourselves well for filming as before we started we all got together and planned out who what going to be filming what part. We did this so each of us had a fair chance to get to grips with filming and so we all were assigned to a part that we could individually concentrate on. We also made sure we set up the cameras and gave ourselves an estimated time to do that in so we could get on with the filming as soon as we could.
We worked really well as a group as we all knew what we had to get on with but also came together on some parts and worked together. We made sure that not all four of us were trying to operate the camera at one time as we knew this would get us confused and not everyone would get a fair chance at filming. Instead we thought it would be better to take it in turns and each film for different sections of the film.
I enjoyed filming our film a lot more than I expected. I mostly enjoyed it when I was using the cameras as it was good to feel involved in what we were creating and felt proud of what we had filmed at the end.