Having spent probably more time than we would have liked filming our two minute opening sequence, as of Tuesday 29th March we have finally compiled all of our desired clips comfortably before the end of filming deadline. However this did not come without any setbacks, as we soon realised filming would be a lot more difficult than first thought.
One of the most difficult decisions for our group when we were deciding on filming locations for our opening sequence was where to shoot our first scene. The difficulty was that we needed a house to shoot in that was fairly plain and simple to fit in with our character's persona. Our initial idea was to film at our director's (Yemi Moses) house as it's a short bus ride from Loreto College, so very accessible, and we would not have to depend on anyone else outside of our media group. However, after some deliberation and research we decided on another location, a small modern flat on Ormsgill Street in Hulme. This location was perfect as it reflected our character's persona perfectly with it's basic design and plain, simple features. After we had finished shooting the scene we thought we had obtained our desired footage. However, poor natural lighting in this house ruined some of our key shots and we soon realised that this house was not suitable after all. So, after some discussion we returned to our original idea to set the first scene at Yemi's house. This turned out to be very successful and we are currently in the process of editing the shots taken at this location.
During the filming process we had a number of minor problems. For example we narrowly avoided a continuity problem when our lead actor Jordan pointed out that we'd already filmed the closing scene of him getting on a train with a small rucksack and were now about to film the opening scene of him packing a much larger rucksack.
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