Thursday 13 January 2011

Organising Our Filming

Looked at our filming schedule and realised that the 13th January was the day we were meant to devote our time to filming at St. Margarets Church in Rainham. We had emailed the vicar of the church before hand explaining that we wished to film a scene of a bride walking up an aisle and luckily, we received confirmation that we would be able to film on the 13th.


Here is the email sent to and from the church

However, after discussing the filming date as a group, we felt that we should really think about how we were going to film the wedding scene, whether St margaret's church would be appropriate and of course, to introduce ourselves and explain to the vicar what we were planning to do in further detail. So, instead, we went to the church and worked out how we would film the scene and how we would acheive something that looked really quite professional.

We managed to find a small platform (that was on wheels) which meant we were able to move across the church floor with ease and after recording an example of walking up the aisle we found that it was perfect for following the bride.


We then thought about placing the 'mysterious husband' at the alter so that when the bride ended her walk, she would be seen standing next to the groom and then instantly, in another shot, her standing in the church, on her own. We soon realised that by simply going to the church to plan and think about our filming, new and fresh ideas were created and therefore felt that the short trip to the church was extremely worthit. In the end, we chose not to use those shots because we thought that isolating the bride would convey a sense of isolation, however, having those shots meant that we were able to decide what we thought was best as a group.

This meant that we then wanted to reschedule the real filming for the following thursday (the 20th of January) and the vicar was more than happy to agree to this. We had a much clearer vision of what we wanted to achieve which consequently made us much more confident in our film planning.

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