18th February media lesson - what we learned

During this lesson, we went over for one last trip to Bentley Road for our final day of filming in that location.
Although we already had most of our footage, we felt that it would be good to retake some of the shots and add a few extra ones to make sure that we had all the shots we needed to maintain continuity in our film and that the shots we took of the characters' actions were actually good enough to be used in our film.
Once again, we saved ourself a 30 minute time slot so that we could finish all the shots ahead of time and get back to college in time to upload our footage. This plan worked to an extent because our group actually managed to get back to the media classroom in time. However, there wasn't really enough time to upload the footage, but since we made it back in time anyway, we agreed to do this next lesson. From this filming session we learned the importance of making sure that we have all the shots we need to maintain continuity in our film and that there is no extra background noise when we are filming, as this can obviously confuse the viewing audience and make them wonder where the sound actually came from. There was no actual background noise interfering with our filming to begin with, but obviously if there was something like a fire engine/police car noise, etc and as we were filming and acting, this would clearly mess up our shots for the thriller and this was something we had realised from our filming session.