Factual Film

So we set out to film our film today, unfortunately one of our group member couldn’t be there but we were happy to carry on the filming as planned. We came across a lot of problems with the filming, we had planned to film in a local school of mine and Natasha’s as we had been for two meetings at the school but unfortunately when we arrived for the day of filming they hit us with some bad news. We weren’t aloud to film in the school because of government rules. So this set us back quite a bit and we were stuck sitting around then wondering what we could do. We didn’t have unfortunately enough time to go through the government to find out if we could film because we had a dead line and we had waited so long to finally film this day because we felt passionate about the film we wanted to film. We did luckily manage to get some voice recording of two of the teachers from the school, one that spoke about his experience of being bullied when he was younger and the other being a mentor talking about the school anti-bullying policies. This was all we had so far until one of the group members friends arrived at her halls and was willing to talk on camera for us about her past bullying experience and how it helped her in a way because now she does drama and feels she voices her emotions well from this. While filming this section of the film I felt overwhelmed and my eyes filled up, it was very emotional to hear someone the same age as me talk about how bad her childhood was because of bullies and we wanted this to be pursued into our film. We did finally get to film some children in a playground but couldn’t show them up close which was unfortunate but we worked with it. We used a time lapse of outside a school of some cars and people walking about their daily on goings. Unfortunately we didn’t get to edit this film the same day was ewe planned to ask because of all the traumas we had it took up the whole day. We did edit though the morning it was due and it was handed in on time considering all the speed bumps we occurred in the process. I am happy with what we achieved taking everything into account and just hope we can carry on next year creating good films.