Preliminary Sequence – Did you feed the fish

When my group, Anna, Madihah, Catherine and I were planning on making this sequence, we had planned that we would add some comedy into it, yet keep to the script.

We started on making our story board and planning everything out, including writing down the props that were to be used, who would be what character and the clothing and location. We had come up with an idea that we thought would work well. We thought the camera shots we decided to use fit with what we were filming and that it would work well with the feel we wanted to get across to the audience.

Although when we came to filming in the building we wanted to film in, we had not checked if it would be open on a Sunday, and it was not.

So we thought fast and decided to use the rooftops of a department store in New malden, kept safe and watched by a member of staff, we filmed from the back to the front, we found this was easier. We all sat down and decided how we were going to film it, and wrote down what we were going to film first and where and how. While filming we did come across some problems as my camera went out of battery but luckily we had two other cameras with us so we could continue filming.

We tried the same shot a few times but changed them each time so they looked the best they could be. I believe the editing went well and we produced a good piece of work, although we could of planned better by checking the opening and closing date of our building of choice. Our original storyboard was not used entirely; we did keep most of the clips and shots we wanted to use, but had to change a few because of the change of building.