Our first attempt at filming.

one of our classmates helping
 with the equipment

Yesterday on December the 6th, was our first day filming Live Evil. However things did not turn out as we planned. We faced a number of issues, the first involved gathering all of our actors (who were in a different location from us because of our lesson timetable) and collecting the equipment from the school. The second issue was transporting all the equipment to our location which is my house. Despite our actors helping us carry the equipment, the journey was still slow because of the cold weather. This caused us to think about how we could get the equipment to our location faster next time, especially since we might not always have our actors with us, since in some cases we might agree to meet up at the location rather then walk to it together.When this does happen a possible solution would be to ask some of our fellow classmates if they would like to help us carry the equipment.

The last two issues were the ones that affect our plans the most. Firstly we had problems with setting up the equipment, we were not able to fix the camera firmly onto the tripod which caused it to be wobbly. This led us to decided that it would not be worth filming anything as we would not be able to have steady shots and also made us realise that in the previous camera sessions we learned the hard technique and camera settings but not the basics such as placing the camera on the tripod, viewing the footage we had taken etc.
An additional issue that led us to this decision of cancelling the filming, was that the scene we planned to film required daylight, however since we took so much time travelling to our location and setting up the equipment, it had already become night-time which meant that we could no longer film that scene.

For that same reason we had to call our teacher and ask for his permission for the equipment to remain in my house overnight since it would be quite risky to walk around at night with expensive equipment. Our teacher agreed with the condition that I would hand it in to the office first thing next morning.


Next morning I found that it was raining and I had nobody to help me carry all the equipment back to school. The solution I found for this problem was to hire a cab to take me to school. By doing this I could make sure that the equipment would not be damaged and that I would not be late for my lesson.