Filming Journel

30th March 2013

So the big day had a arrived and everyone was excited and nervous at the same time. We made sure we had planned from the day before and knew what shots to prioritize by having a written out shot list, we also had our story board with us because so we could visually see what we wanted for the shot and how it was supposed to look like. We had also briefly looked at the weather so that we got the right look and feel for our film.
We were all supposed to meet at the train station at 8:45 am which meant that we planned to have 20 minutes before the train arrived and we would be in no hurry. But then disaster soon struck as we arrived we realized there was coaches outside. Wondering what they were for, we  went to go and buy our tickets and that's when we soon found out that one of the big main tracks which is on the way to Paddington was having work done to it! So that meant that we couldn't take a train directly from Maidenhead to Paddington which is why we chose our location of Paddington in the first place, so we could easily get to it.
So because of this unfortunate closure, the station provided railway replacement service and we had to get a big coach from Maidenhead, to Hayes and Harlington station, where we then got off and had to get a train into Paddington. it was a long trip! And what was only supposed to take 45 minutes, took 1 hour 30 minutes as we arrived at the station at 10:39. But thankfully it didn't put us too far behind in our filming schedule.
When we FINALLY got there, we had to find Cam, the guy that's playing our character of Isaac which didn't take too long thankfully. After we had met up, we had to let TFL (travel for London)  know that we were here and that we were ready and raring to go. So as it said on the email that got sent to us, we went to the McMillan House where they explained to us that we were in the overground office! So we had to take yet another detour to the underground office where we showed them our permit, signed in and got a sticker with our number that we signed in with. This would mean that at the end of the day, we had to sign out before we left.
After that we decided we would have a quick lunch break at the famous and delicious McDonalds, where we discussed what shots would be captured first. We decided that it would be a smart idea to capture all the shots with Isaac in first, so Cam could go straight after. We then went to our first destination of filming which was the underground circle line platforms 1 and 2, there we managed to get a number of shots which included; shot reverse shot of main characters on opposite platforms, close up of Isaac, shots of the map on the floor, Ariadne arriving at the platform, shot from the bridge. The only problem was, is that there were no crowds which is exactly what we needed and what we had drew up in our storyboards. But the fact that there wasn't many crowds played on the idea of isolation, and the faint wind blew Ari's hair which looked very cinematic. All these shots took around 2 hours to film, so we then decided to take a break in the lovely Costa and decide where to shoot next. Cam was also free to go and left us to do our filming. for the crowds entering the underground, we decided that we were gonna shoot it from an outside entrance, and found the perfect cinematic shooting location, but there was no crowds yet again! So we decided to go back to Paddington and shoot people walking down the entrance to the Bakerloo line, the side entrance right by cafe Nero, and even though there wasn't as many crowds as we wanted, we got the shots and they managed to look alright.We filmed the shots such as Ari walking down the tunnel, a down the stairs,  the bag drop close up, Ari looking up close up, and Ari getting up and collecting her stuff from her bag on the floor and walking off.
After we were satisfied with the footage we collected, we then went on our long way home back to Hayes and Harlington. got the bus to Slough, and then got the train back to maidenhead to retreat home!

We decided not to film to drop sequence on location because it would have taken a long time to get what we wanted, so we decided to shoot that a a different time.

Overall the filming went well and all the long hours payed off in seeing the end results.