Filming 18th October

We went out to film on Sunday 18th October which we managed to do. Our group and the actors met up outside Tooting Broadway tube station at 12:30.

I brought with me the video camera with DV tape and tripod and large unused bin bag for use as a prop. Charlie Marden had printed out and made all the the animal masks along with the 'I Wish' sign which she backed onto cardboard so it wouldnt get bent. Megan Valuks brough with her the items myself and her had purchased to smash and also put a picture of the lead male acotr into the picture frame we bought which again was going to be smashed and a print out of the Eviction notice we made. James Rath brough with him several extra items of clothing which we requested as we needed to fill out the bin bag as if it was full of the actresses possesions after she's been evicted.

We took with us the storyboards with us to help us with what to film, I also exported the animatic video in .mp4 format from Apple iMovie and added it to my video iPod so that we could watch it whilst out and about, this again gave us an better idea of the timing of the shots we needed to get with the music playing aswell.

We started by filming the scene where the bus drives past Ruth, to get this shot we went to tooting high street where we found two bus stops where diferent busses stop at each, we then waited at one of them until a bus came past that isnt meant to stop at it as we knew it would go straight past and then filmed Ruth putting her arm out for it to stop it going past.

We carried on to some of the residential roads nearby and got shots of Ruth walking down the road towards her 'Home'.

We then got the eviction and landlord scenes filmed using one of our colleges houses who didnt mind us using it, we also later used this house to film the cheating scenes.

We then headed towards the cafe which we were planning to use but unfortunatly it was closed due to it being a sunday, we were also unable to film any of the other scenes because we were still unable to aquire a pig mask which we then found was essential to the other scenes we needed filmed. The final thing we managed to film was the breaking shots of the items we had bought, we brought with us a dustpan and brush and a plastic bag to clear up the mess afterwards.

Looking at the filming day now we realised we needed to be a lot more organised and prepared for the next time we filmed. We spoke to our actors and group and decided to film next on Friday 23rd as we would all be free then it would also give us a chance to get the other props we needed.

Here is a photograph taken whilst I filmed the cheating scene

This is another photo from the day where we were getting the props ready