Meeting 4:

Seeing as we were filming from the start again on the Friday the 7th March, we wanted to find a quieter place so the noise would not disrupt the filming and the characters voices could be heard. We chose to go Victoria Park and found some houses in a quiet estate and asked permission to be filming in front of their door. The filming went well, we found one house for the male to come out and another house for the female to come out of. It was a bit noisy when we filmed for the female to come out of her house because that building was next to a busy road where there were lots of cars going past. One of the things that went wrong was it started to become slightly dark by the time we got round to film for the girl as we took most of the day's light up to film for the male character, it still worked though. We took time up to find a location to film in and also we took a little too much time setting up the equipment which wasted most of the day. Another thing that went wrong was that when the female and the male character were speaking, his voice was a bit too quiet so you could not hear it properly, also the location we were filming for the girl, there were many cars going by at the time she was speaking so it was quite hard to hear her despite the mic. We thought by using the mic we would be able to hear the characters voices despite the background noise but when we saw back the footage that wasn't the case. There were also quite a few cars in front of the house that we were filming for the girl but we could not do anything about it, it also went well because the location looked more realistic. By the time we got round to filming the girl and the boy walking past each other it started to get more darker as we were wasting time because the characters could not get their parts right properly due to laughter, etc. We started off filming well but by the time it got round to the restaurant scene, it was too dark and that is not the time of the day we wanted to film the restaurant scene. But we did it anyway because we wanted to get everything done that day. We had to go round asking for permission about 3 restaurant if we could film in there but they had said no because they were too busy. We even found one restaurant which had very good lighting inside and candles and wine glasses which gave it a romantic feel. We could not go there because someone else had booked it for an event. In the end, we found a small restaurant which was perfect because it was dark inside with a rose on the table, candles and wine glasses on a table for two, it looked very romantic. We however did not have that long to film because the manager said they had lots of customers coming in, due to this we rushed very quickly resulting in us not getting a variety of shots which we were very disappointed in. Ramaine only filmed from one side getting the characters speaking to each other but no close-ups or over-the-shoulder shots which were very important for this scene to show the facial expressions between the two characters. We also had to change the storyline a little as we did not use roses which we were supposed to. Mainly because everyone forgot to get the roses and also because we had to hurry and were on a time-limit for our opening sequence so we could not use up too much time. There was a rose on the table so it did not matter that we did not buy roses. Also, it would not make sense for her boyfriend to be giving her roses because he was confessing he found someone else and she storms out angry. We could not do the old lady in the park scene and when the girl meets the first guy again because by then it was too dark to go to a park and it was not on our storyboard to be filming in the dark because it would not make sense or look romantic. Everyone had to go home at that time too so we decided to come out the very next day only the female and the first guy so we can shoot them two meeting and speaking scene.