We encountered multiple problems before and during filming, but we did our best to overcome these at the time.
I will have mentioned some of these problems in my filming post but this will explain them in a bit more detail.
Firstly i will detail the problems we encountered before filming.
The main big problem we faced before filming was the weather.Our original plan was to film just before the Christmas break , but during this time the UK suffered severe adverse weather conditions. Our area had quite a bit of snow, and this snow did not melt for quite a while as the temperatures stayed at and below freezing. This period of weather went on for bout a month and cost us weeks of filming as a lot of our scenes were outdoors and this would have caused us numerous problems had we attempted to film. The main problem being continuity as we wouldnt be able to easily re-film peices if the snow had melted, plus anyway we didnt really feel that the snow would fit in most of our scenes. The other major problem was that a lot of our scenes had the main characters running at fast paces and we had to put filming on hold as this was in our opinion a major safety issue. Most of our locations had ice on the ground for long spells and e just simply couldnt risk injury. So we decided to perfect our plan for filming so that we would be ready to film as soon as the weather had cleared up.
Before filming we took into account that we would have to carefully choose filming locations and be very careful not to include anything post 80's in our trailer(i.e modern cars). We did find this extremly difficult as cars would pass by during shots. We also had to make sure that modernish buildings wernt included in shot, and that all locations looked like they could be from the 80's time period. To double check we visisted the locationmultiple times before filming and then watched the video we had recorded to check that anything modern hadnt been included.
The next problem was another 'in-film' problem. Due to the nature of our film and the props we would be using(mainly guns) we were wairy that this may alarm members of the public during filming so when organising the props we tried to find guns that looked like toys(eg. couloured blue) to make it as obvious as possible that these were not real. However during filming we had a police patrol car come along and ask us a few questions about what we were doing. They explained that they had received a phonecall from a concerned driver who had driven past whilst we were filming. They asked us a few simple questions about why we were filming and examined our guns to check they were real(they did have a bit of a giggle at the fact one had the text 'this is a toy gun' written on the side), and after explaining that we were filming an action trailer for our media studies they were happy for us to continue. They also advised us that they understood we could not inform every resisdent and driver passing bye of what we were doing, so they told us if we encounter any problems with a concerned member of the public to just kindly tell them that we have been visited by the police and if they are still concerned to tell them to phone the Whittlesey Police Station.
As we filmed we also encountered problems with the camera as we would find either the memory filling up, or the battery and back-up battery running out of power before we could complete the scene.This caused us ocasionally to have to rush which became anooying and frustrating at times. When the memory was full we had no choice but to end filming early and continue another day.
The last problem we encountered during filming was that due to other commitments we did find it difficult to find a time that we were all free to film. Due to us all doing different A-Levels we all had free periods at different times.We solved thsi problem by making a simple 3 week time plan which can be seen below.
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