Skills Audit: Filming

Before coming up with the idea for ‘Undiscovered’ we had many different ideas for our opening sequence. However after considering it carefully we then decided that we where better of doing something not so complicated as our time is limit.


On 9th of March, we took the all our equipment to Springfield Park, where our film was located. We had pre arranged the location where we were going to film our clips. Springfield Park was a perfect location, as it seemed vacant, after setting up the equipment we headed towards the cafe where we would film the beginning of our thriller.

We had to ask for permission to film in the cafe, we brought some snakes and were granted a limited amount of time to get the shots we needed, this was quickly done as we worked hard and efficiently taking various shots so that our clip could be shown at different angles. A combination of teamwork and positive thinking allowed as to grab the essential shots we needed such as the establishing shot of both the park and outside the cafe, close ups of important props such as the glove and the fire place.

We managed to complete most of the filming according to the plan. We started of by getting various shots of the location in advance so that we had more pieces of footage to choose to include in our thriller. While filming, I learnt the importance of repeating the same actions many times in order to be able to take the same shots from different angles and view points. This was then used in our thriller to make effects such as match cuts and jump cuts.

The importance in repeating the same actions is to be able to create a smooth footage adding different effects from different view points. However if the same actions wasn’t repeated, it would be very obvious for the audience to spot out the difference. This also includes the background as we had to make sure that when repeating the filming, the things in the background such as props stayed in the same position. It took a long time to make sure the filming was accurate.


I believe that we made a great effort in being able to complete all the filming in one day, every one of our group members contributed. We managed to follow the story board and keep up with our plan. One thing that we had to change according to the plan was the dog barking at the canal scene, the main reasons for this was that we couldn’t control the dog, therefore the dog was distracted by other things around him. I think that we wasted a lot of our time with the dog where as if that amount of time and effort was put into the filming it could have been much more effective. Over all I was very satisfied with the footage we ended up with because we managed to stay as a team and work together in order to get a valuable piece of work.