When we were filming our project, we encountered a number of problems.
One main problem was our group member and actress Lucy. Although she came up with the main idea for our film, we struggled with filming as she constantly had doctors appointments or was ill. This prevented us from filming on a lot of occasions, and also caused another problem as we couldn't get in touch with our other actress Kelly, as the only person in contact with her was Lucy. This then caused further problems when shortly after christmas, Lucy left college all together, leaving us with only two group members and no contact with her for any extra work that needed doing, like costume and props photos, photos for our posters and extra voice clips for our radio trailer.
Another problem we had whilst filming was the video cameras we were using. We set the white balance on the camera before filming but when we uploaded the footage on to the computer, the background looked more yellow than cream. We managed to rectify this by using the colour correction feature on Final Cut Express, which was also helpful when we forgot to set the white balance on a few scenes due to waiting around for actors being late.
I think within our group there was also a lack of time management skills, as a lot of work was left until the last minute rather than being completed early on in the task. It didn't help that we were also re-sitting our coursework from last year, so lesson times had to be split between both AS and A2 work sometimes.
