The filming process for this project was a very difficult one. I had planned as much as I could have and everything looked okay on paper. My first encounter was through no fault but my own which was that I had previously thought that the costume/makeup would take about 10 minutes maximum whereas it took about 40 minutes. Baring in mind that I only had the room for 2hrs 30mins this was quite the setback. The filming began and everything seemed to be going well; the communication between the cast and crew was good and we were slightly ahead of schedule. We had filmed about half of the film right up until things started to go downhill. A fire alarm went off meaning that the shoot had to come to a stop and everyone had to be evacuated from the building. We were stood outside for about 10 minutes and once we were allowed back in, the fire alarm went off a second time, meaning that we'd lost about 20 minutes in total. After all of this happening I then had a teacher let me know that he had the room booked from 1pm for tutorials with his students even though I had booked the room out until 1.30pm, meaning that this cut off another 30 minutes of filming time. Because of all these unfortunate reasons, it meant that we had to rush a lot of shots just hoping that we could get everything we needed.
Overall, considering the amount of unwanted setbacks we had, resulting in losing about an 1hr 30mins of filming time; I feel like we coped with it very professionally, not just throwing the towel in and actually made use of the 1 hour film time that we ended up with. Obviously if I were to do the shoot again I imagine there wouldn't be so many inconveniences on the day. In a sense, I am happy that what happened happened because it has helped me a lot as a film maker, forcing me to make decisions in a short amount of time, making each minute count.
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