Problems We Had During Filming.

During filming Ellie and I did come across quite a few problems with our other actors and camera directors. All of our crew were going through the same struggles as everyone else in the group. Having problems is normal when it comes to filming and dealing with everything when one simple thing can become 10x harder when the weather changes or when people aren't around to do the job they signed up for.
The first problem we had when getting ready to film and the filming part was the weather. I had done a weather analysis already but the weather can change very easily and I was updating the website every hour or so. When we had gone outside to start filming we realised that it was a lot bitter than we thought it was going to be so we had to take a few scarves and pairs of gloves.


Secondly, the lighting was another problem that was very hard to resolve. In reality it was light and didn't get dark until about 4:30 but as we started filming at about 3 we knew it was going to get dark but on Ellie's phone which is what we used to film it came out a lot darker than we had thought. We added effects on to our footage on Adobe to try to make it lighter but It was a struggle. It shocked us all because in reality it wasn't even dark but on the phone it was so dark it was like it was the evening.


Thirdly, trying to keep stable when running around on the mud was definitely a struggle. It had been raining the night before so all the mud and what was mud, had gone all soft and was slippery and the mud path was extremely hard to get a grip on. We couldn't do anything to resolve this so we just had to be very careful on how we were running and walking around.


Lastly, getting someone to play a dead body on the soft runny mud was another struggle. No one wanted to lay on the runny mud as they didn't want to get dirty. As it was right next to the pond it was extremely muddy and no one (who wasn't already a main actor) wanted to be laying on the floor for almost half of the filming as it was freezing cold and the mud was going everywhere.


We resolved most of these problems with ease, for the weather problem I checked up on the weather every hour and made sure that we all had enough to wrap up in, for the lighting that one was one of the hardest as we couldn't personally change the lighting but we could change the footage after which is what we done by adding effects. The staying safe whilst running around and walking everywhere was the hardest one in which we couldn't resolve, we couldn't change the path way for us to use. Finally, we resolved the dead body part; we got Emma (Ellie's little sister) to do it as she didn't mind getting dirty or laying on the floor. It was easily done as she was wearing a onsie and had the hood up with a plastic bag on her feet so she was literally covered from head to toe.