As a group we decided before hand to meet up at 9am at Piccadilly Gardens. Our primary concern was that we had good communication between us, therefore the night before we planned where we would meet up via facebook or texting each other.
We met at Piccadilly Gardens at 9am, and filmed the scenes at Starbucks where both performers Michael and Bethan, are seen as the 'happy couple'. We asked for permission if we could film there, which was unsuccessful, so we did not film this sequence today and insted decided to try a different day in a different area.
Afterwards, we went to Market Street where we decided to film the scene of the performer, running through the busy Market Street. We had several different angle shots of him running, so that when editing we could decide on which shot would suit best, whether it be a point of view shot or a wide angle shot. This shot was important, as it represented the performer’s rush to get to his girlfriend on time. But also, with all the people getting in the way, mimicked the chaos that was going on in his head. The busy street was also used so that the viewer is not always focused on one or two main performers throughout the whole of the sequence, in case of losing interest in seeing the seeing the same people too much.
After filming on Market Street we then headed into Manchester Arndale where we filmed another happy scene with Michael and Bethan. We faced difficulties again, when we approached for not having filming permission, so stopped filming in the arndale centre. Luckily, we had all the shots that we needed from this location so we did not need to go back to re-shoot.
From this experience we learnt that if we needed to film scenes in public places we needed permission and so next time we came out filming we would know this and so could pre plan.
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