Filming Sessions

Our first filming session was on location in Clapham common on the 17th of February to film the home movie clips of Cassie and Faith when they were younger. We thought this session went pretty well as we shot all the footage that we needed plus some extra options if the others didn't work out. The weather was excellent for what we wanted to achieve as it was mild for February and sunny so that our actors wouldn't be too cold and also the natural lighting gave the footage an innocent feel reflecting the children playing and being happy. However, there were some issues with sound as it was a windy day and the sound of the wind blowing muffled our actors improvised speech. Although we solved this issue by deciding not to use any audio from the footage and instead use the Final Cut Pro X ambience sound effects.

Sunday's weather report

We then moved onto to the Clapham Common fairground filming session. We had sound issues here as well because the fairground had a sound system playing modern day music. This was an issue due to the fact that this music wouldn't have existed when Cassie was younger therefore making it an inaccurate portrayal of Faith's disappearance in that particular time period. To overcome this issue we again decided to use sound effects instead of the original audio.

Here is an example of the sound effects that we could possibly use.





Our next filming session was on the 20th of February in the garage setting. The temperature had dropped quite dramatically from Sunday's mild weather causing the garage to be very chilly so we all had to wrap up warm and move the heater in order to avoid catching frostbite! However, disaster struck! During the previous filming sessions, we kept leaving the camera on stand by mode by accident thinking that we had turned the camera off. this obviously drained the battery and made us rush the shots, but thankfully they were all decent and suitable for use so we didn't have to go back to the COLD garage and re-film. YAY!