Filming

I finaly started the filming, after weeks of trying to get people from broadcasting to help me out. I thought i had a crew together but then they backed out, which left me panicing. however i did manage to find replacements.
I firstly had to story bord the piece as the producer and director, befor i could start filming. I wanted
some input from the camera men, as i was unsure what would look good. Penny and Jai Ings suggested ideas
but they were leading astray from the theme of recycling. This was alot more work than i expected, and took alot longer than planned as it was my first time doing a project like this.
I was planning to shoot scenes on loaction at scrap yards and recycling tips around south east london, even abandoned buiuldings. but it was hard to fit this in with others, as alot of people were busy. I decided that the best bet was to shoot the video around college as it was easy to get every one together on the same day. I also filmed around Hither green on bin day and managed to film the Recycling men taking away the rubbish which was a stroke of luck.
I booked out a Pd 150 camera and a tripod for capturing the footage, which was perfect for the job. however it rained alot on our filiming days so alot of time was spent under a shelter waiting for the weather to clear up. typical!
The main story for this piece was to show me looking around finding bits to make samples from, and then showing the progress as i started to work on it. and i wanted to make the recying theme the main focus point so there is lots of footage of bins and signs. I also wanted to slice it up a bit by adding quick moving images of things such as breaking bottles,,so the video is more exciting and not boring to watch.
Once we had captured all the footage we then had the challenge of editing which we used Final Cut Pro for which i have not used befor. the task was to remove all the bad footage and cut the rest in to scenes. We then choose the ones we wanted to keep and got rid of the others.Then we placed the scenes in order and merged them together, which again took alot longer than expected.