Thursday 17th of December.

In our CRaM session today we finally managed to do all our filming and actually produce something worth watching, unlike last time.
After break we went to my Nans house which is about 3 minutes away from Coleridge and began filming. This time there were less people [ the people in our group] as this way there would be less distractions and messing about.
We worked very well together as a team and got some excellent footage. Filming at my nans house was definitely much easier and safer than the Cambridge Leisure Centre, we didn't have to worry about things like theft, rain, or filming on a private property without permission. Even though we managed to get some footage last time it didn't fit together well and didn't make sense at all.
It was completely clear to us that we had to film it all again with a completely different story, especially after we showed our Rough Edit to another CRaM student and had very negative feedback. So this is why we decided to re-film at my Nans house. This time everything fit together perfectly and it was much easier to film. However we had some problems with the sound, so we rang Mr. Durran and he told us what we had to do to overcome this difficulty. After we solved this problem, everything else was perfect, and it only needed editing. When we got back to Coleridge it was Lunch time so after our break we started editing immediately. After about 10 minutes of editing, We showed our rough edit to Mr.Durran and he had very positive feedback about our footage. We've edited most of it now and we are just putting a Royalty Free soundtrack onto it.

We haven't had any other problems with our footage yet, and hopefully there wont be any more. It was quite difficult having to abandon a plan, which we had written story boards, scripts, summaries, Risk assessments and more, We had even scouted the location. So it wasn't the easiest thing to do to change plans one week before the Christmas holidays, However we were successful and managed to produce something even better than I expected. Even though we completely failed with our other plan, I think it was quite a good experience and that I learned a lot from it.

I helped with a lot of the planning today, I wrote about the Location, I was also one of the characters in the film, and it was at my nans house. I'm very happy with our work today and I think we worked very well.