Filming

On the 22nd of november we began shooting, having easily found the house of Charlotte Cooper. Having acquired everything we needed(camera, microphone,tape, costume, suitable accessories and paperwork), we began to film for the day.

Fortunately, it was the right weather for each scene-as for being set in england, and in november, it would have been compulsory to shoot our idea at this designated time.We had finished most of the shooting at around 2:15pm,having spent 90 minutes in the forested area nearby.

The script suggests a few place names that appear obvious in the narrative,such as Bell Buckle,which was thoroughly researched in order to make sure that it was the ideal place name for this particular trailer. The town in question had the smallest population in the state of Tenessee, which was also compulsory for our two characters-Brandene and Charlene.

Although the original character for Brandene could not be available, we improvised as a team and one of the other female members took the place instead, changing into clothes that would portray the character of Brandene excellently. I remained the character of Hans, due to the fact that i was the only one in the group that could speak good german, and that I could carry it out with a strong german accent.

We commenced filming the first few scenes ast the interior of the house, which was very fortunate, as it rained heavily during this time. However,when we had finished shooting at the interior of the house, it was still raining with visceral brutality, so, as an ever-improvising group, we decided to practice putting up the tent,so that in the coming minutes,we would be prepared to shoot with simplistic skills, and so we did get round to shooting fairly quickly after.

One of the scenes in particular could not be filmed exactly as posted in the script, as the original character of Brandene could not be available, so we improvised again and decided to film seperate shots of Moon drop and the two tenesseans, two characters of which were played by Charlotte Pell simultaneously.

The last main problem with the overall product was that the microphone did not appear to function on all scenes, but whether it was because it was plugged in the wrong port we did not know, so therefore we have decided to re-record the sounds that were supposed to have been played in the original scenes at another place and time. At a later date(16th December 2009 to be exact), with the assistance of a camera, we started re-recording the audio tracks of the scenes thought necessary to do so, and fortunately,this process worked fully to our advantage,and I am pleased to say that our product is almost complete, with only a narrator to follow.

Generally speaking, these few problems could have reduced the power and excitement of our filming, but improvising as a team we struggled right through to the end, and I think that it was still a successfull shooting nonetheless.