Today we went to Southend to film our footage for our film opening, overall it went well and we got everything we needed and wanted to.
We began at Chelmsford train station where we filmed some footage including Libby walking through the barriers, getting on the train and the train pulling into the the station. Luckily we didn't have to wait for a train to long as we looked into train times before we left to ensure we didn't waste any time.
We got on a train to Shenfeild, we had to go here to change to the train that went straight to Southend. Between Chelmsford and Southend we filmed Libby walking down the train to find a seat. We also filmed her looking at the scrapbook and looking out the window.
When we got to Shenfeild we filmed Libby walking down a corridor and up the stairs which took her to the platform. We had some time before our train came so we decided it would be a good idea to re-film Libby walking onto the train to ensure we got a good, still shot. Luckily a train was already pulled into the station and wasn't leaving for a few minutes so we were able to film it a number of times and get the best possible shot.
We got a train from Shenfeild to Southend which didn't take to long. On the way we continued to film some footage on Libby on the train looking through her scrapbook and out the window. We moved down the train to find a carriage with less people in so we didn't disturb anyone with our filming and we didn't have anyone else in our shots as we want Libby to look as alone as possible.
When we got to Southend we walked down to the sea front as the majority of our footage would be shot there. We first shot the lift footage as it took us down the sea front, when we got down to the sea front we noticed that no one was in Adventure Island Theme Park, we immediately went to asks someone if it was open or not and unfortunately they told us it wasn't. We were hoping to film some of our footage within the theme park so we had to quickly think of other places to film. We had checked the website for Adventure Island before we came and nothing stated it wouldn't be open.
We didn't want to waste any time so we continued with our filming while we thought of some more ideas to replace the footage we would of filmed.
We first went to an arcade to shot some shots of Libby and Katie playing on various machines. There was a miniature bowling alley in the arcade so we thought it would a good idea to film some footage of Libby bowling.
Once we had shot all the footage we wanted in the arcade, we went out to the beach were I filmed Libby and Katie walking along the small pier, i also filmed a panning shot of the sea. We did this just at the right time as the sun was setting and it a nice effect to the shot. We liked the sunset so much we shot it with Libby standing just to the left of the sunset.
Finally we went back to the lift we first used and re-filmed it and also shot some footage of us standing infant of the sunset.
Overall i think we planned the day almost perfectly. we checked the weather to make sure it was suitable for outside filming, we took all the equipment we required with us, we had enough time to film all the footage and some extra incase we needed it.