Problems and How I Overcame Them

When we were in the drama studio the first night that we filmed, the lights wouldn't change colour. So we had to film the whole first night under red light and I was really self conscious that we would have a lot of red filming and not enough white and blue - but the next night I managed to get my friend Shona (who knows how to work the lights) to show me how to change them, and then we did both blue and white filming in the next shoot.

Another problem was the smoke alarms. Using my smoke machine there was always the possibility that we were going to set the smoke alarms off - so we had to make sure that the room wasn't filled up with smoke and we frequently ventilated the room (keeping the windows and doors open) to make sure that the smoke didn't get high enough to reach the alarms. This was a big problem that me and Mrs Bailey (Head of Drama) had been speaking about a lot in the lead up to filming. 

I also had an issue with the camera - at first I didn't have a tripod, but then I found out someone else had taken it so I borrowed it off of them for the two nights that I filmed. Then the camera turned out to be booked, but it wasn't charged - so I then had to bring in my own SLR (Canon EO5 1100) to continue filming on the second night of the shoot.