Filming for "Rendezvous" was far from simple as we faced numerous challenges and restrictions during filming and affecting our planning for filming.
One of the first problems we faced and by far one of the most restricting and impacting was the issue we had in getting permission from Travel South Yorkshire to film in the Barnsley Interchange for the train station and train scenes in our film. We began filming, as we didn't think we'd encounter a problem, and had shot a few shots already before one of the interchange security guards came over and asked us "What we were doing?" to which he explained we were filming for our Media A level final film, to which he then asked us whether we had asked permission from the site manager. Due to not having asked permission to film at the Interchange we then could not use the footage we'd shot and had to move onto the next scenes we were planning to film; the scenes on the train. After discovering that we should've asked permission to film in the interchange we had a feeling that we'd most likely need to ask permission to film on the train as well. As we boarded the train and the conductor came round to collect tickets, we asked him if we could film on the train and whether we'd need to seek permission, he told us that we'd need to ask permission but not from him, from the manager of Travel South Yorkshire and the trainline. This heavily and severely affected our filming schedule as we lost a lot of footage and were denied a lot of footage due to requiring permission. In order to try and film a lot of the scenes quickly after we were denied we went to our media teacher and asked if he could ring up Travel South Yorkshire and the trainline, this was where we were hit with another barrier and problem. Our teacher rang up several times, emailed several times and even went down the interchange a couple of times to try and speak to someone and grant us permission. We waited over 2 months for a reply to which we finally got and were granted permission to film, whilst this was good news that we had finally got permission, it still took too long and we lost 2 months of filming time which we believe was unfair on us and was a hugely impacting and costly problem that we faced.
As well as being denied permission to film, another problem we faced was the weather, after finally being granted permission to film we planned to film on Tuesday 14th January, however Yorkshire had forecast heavy snow and the heavy snow resulted in not all of our group being able to film and transport being almost impossible to get us to places where we could film. This therefore cost us more filming time and we then grew stressed as to when the snow would clear and stop falling so that we could film soon.
A final problem that we faced was members of our group being ill with flu and hospital visits meaning that they weren't in a healthy enough state to film or come to college or anywhere so that we could regroup and film. Whilst we should've, admittedly, thought of alternatives, we didn't think we would be hit with so many problems that we couldn't prevent in such quick success. Our group members did begin to feel better and recover shortly after the snow had began to slow down meaning we could get back to filming the week afterwards, however, we additionally planned alternative solutions for if we face these problems again.
One of the first problems we faced and by far one of the most restricting and impacting was the issue we had in getting permission from Travel South Yorkshire to film in the Barnsley Interchange for the train station and train scenes in our film. We began filming, as we didn't think we'd encounter a problem, and had shot a few shots already before one of the interchange security guards came over and asked us "What we were doing?" to which he explained we were filming for our Media A level final film, to which he then asked us whether we had asked permission from the site manager. Due to not having asked permission to film at the Interchange we then could not use the footage we'd shot and had to move onto the next scenes we were planning to film; the scenes on the train. After discovering that we should've asked permission to film in the interchange we had a feeling that we'd most likely need to ask permission to film on the train as well. As we boarded the train and the conductor came round to collect tickets, we asked him if we could film on the train and whether we'd need to seek permission, he told us that we'd need to ask permission but not from him, from the manager of Travel South Yorkshire and the trainline. This heavily and severely affected our filming schedule as we lost a lot of footage and were denied a lot of footage due to requiring permission. In order to try and film a lot of the scenes quickly after we were denied we went to our media teacher and asked if he could ring up Travel South Yorkshire and the trainline, this was where we were hit with another barrier and problem. Our teacher rang up several times, emailed several times and even went down the interchange a couple of times to try and speak to someone and grant us permission. We waited over 2 months for a reply to which we finally got and were granted permission to film, whilst this was good news that we had finally got permission, it still took too long and we lost 2 months of filming time which we believe was unfair on us and was a hugely impacting and costly problem that we faced.
As well as being denied permission to film, another problem we faced was the weather, after finally being granted permission to film we planned to film on Tuesday 14th January, however Yorkshire had forecast heavy snow and the heavy snow resulted in not all of our group being able to film and transport being almost impossible to get us to places where we could film. This therefore cost us more filming time and we then grew stressed as to when the snow would clear and stop falling so that we could film soon.
A final problem that we faced was members of our group being ill with flu and hospital visits meaning that they weren't in a healthy enough state to film or come to college or anywhere so that we could regroup and film. Whilst we should've, admittedly, thought of alternatives, we didn't think we would be hit with so many problems that we couldn't prevent in such quick success. Our group members did begin to feel better and recover shortly after the snow had began to slow down meaning we could get back to filming the week afterwards, however, we additionally planned alternative solutions for if we face these problems again.
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