Thursday 13th February 2014
Today was our final day of filming and my birthday, yay! Today we had to film our protagonist (the Hacker) and their scenes. This was our busiest and longest shooting day out of the three I have to say, We used a lot of different filming equipment to achieve the various shots to the highest standards we possibly could, this meant capturing 2 or more of one shot just so when we took the footage back to edit we had a choice of shots to put in for particular parts.
A problem we faced throughout filming today was moving ourselves and our actor AND all the filming equipment from location to location. This was overcome by several car journeys between each of the locations transporting actors, crew and equipment between the journeys. There was a lot of back and forths going on and we realise we would have struggled greatly if we did not have a car on hand.
Note on Risk Assessment!: We did not foresee that a member of our own team (me) could hurt themselves on the equipment that they have used many times before! This was obviously a low risk but a risk non of the less, if it were on the risk assessment they may have been more careful, this just highlights WHY risk assessments are important procedure, not just for actors but for the crew members aswell.
