recording

When we did the recording, we started by doing all the outside scenes so that the weather was similar for each shot. We had a few props including a bottle of beer, a few shopping bags and casual clothes scattered around to make it look as if we had been at the scene for a short while. We spent around an hour there re-taking shots until they flowed together well. We found it hard sticking to the storyboard but we managed in the end. Once we had filmed the outside shots we moved inside and recorded all the shots inside. Near to the end we ran out of tape in the recorder so we had to continue the next day, but this did not matter too much as the conditions inside would stay the same.
The evening and next morning of recording was productive and we got through all the scenes that we wanted. We learned a huge amount as we encountered many difficulties. For example, we now know that we need to be more organised - running out of tape was a set back that we had to overcome. Sections that we thought would be easy proved harder than we had expected but in some cases others were easier than we were expecting. For example, creating a split screen was not as hard as we had imagined.
Overall the recording was fun to do.