Bad News!

Hey Guys,

Unfortunately, after spending the ENTIRE Friday of the half term filming our project, being extraordinarily tired, re-arranging a HUGE amount of furniture, and completing the filming, our SD card was corrupted and so all our filming, as well as the other media studies group's footage filmed using the same camera and SD. It was a real bummer and I was disappointed because we'd spent lots of time on it and the whole day just seemed like a waste.

However, we can't do much about it and so I chose to look at the benefits of the situation.

Carolina had a doctors appointment on Friday that started at 1:00pm (BANG in the middle of our filming) and, as we'd spent the first two hours setting the scene and moving furniture, she'd only been there for the small dog scenes and didn't get a chance to film. Now that we are re-filming, she can film parts of the opening sequence herself. 

The towel scenes shot in our initial filming made me feel a little uncomfortable so we decided, before we even found out that we couldn't use the previous footage, that we would be refilming the bathroom scene with me in a patterned dressing gown instead. Now it is less of an inconvenience to re-film those parts.

We'd also tried to film the entire opening sequence in one day. As it was our first run-through, it took a lot longer than expected, and I think, in hindsight, we'd underestimated how much time it would take us. We began to lose the light (I never understood when film crews used that phrase, but when your working with one light at 4:00pm in the winter, I now get what they meant), so a lot of our scenes were darker than we wanted, particularly the final scene when she leaves the house.

This didn't work as we were trying to create a peppy, positive atmosphere in our film and the opening sequence is set during in the morning. It would't exactly add up if half of the scene was shot in the dark and she left the house in light looking similar to the evening.

By 4:00 we were rushing to get everything done as well, and so we forgot elements we wanted to add in e.g. Naomi's hair is straight, she checks www.Facebook.com and she piles a load of comdoms into her bag before she leaves. By filming later on, we wouldn't have to rush and we'd have more time to check our schedule and make sure we'd included all we wanted, as well as review the footage.

Now that we are re-filming, which although is a pain, we can reshoot and include all these things we forgot and film our footage at the standard we wanted, rather than one we had to settle for. I'm grateful in some ways, and although I am seriously dreading re-filming, I'm pleased that we have the chance to tweak everything into perfection and I'm optimistic that now we've done it once before, filming will be a lot quicker this time *fingers crossed*

Pheebs, OUT!!! ;)