Problems With My Location

I at first received a reply from the Streetlife Museum saying that they do allow people to film at the location and as long as I answer the questions they provided and we both agreed upon a filming date. The first date I suggested did not work with the museum so I sent the following reply to them requesting an alternative filming date. However when it got to over a week since I sent the email, I had still not yet revived a reply. The day before I planned to film I decided to try and contact them by the phone, however the website only provided the phone number for Hull City Council, I used this number anyway in an attempt to contact them. The women who answered took my name and said she was only getting the answering machine when calling them, although if I wished she said she would transfer me through anyway to leave a message. As this happened though the phone call was cut off unexpectedly so I never had the chance to leave a message.

As I had already planned ahead and got the camera equipment booked out and told the girl featuring in my video that was my filming date, I had no choice but to assume they would let me film and go to the location anyway. Once me and my friend who will be featuring in the video arrived in town and was on out way into the location, I finally manged to get in contact with them over the phone. I was then told that the person with the authority to allow the filming to take place was out of town in a meeting, so I could therefore not film my video that day. This was really upsetting and threw me off my filming plan, however I knew that I should not let the day go to waste while I had the filming equipment and instead I attempted to get some test footage on the backstreets of Old Hull Town, I also used this opportunity to take some test photos.

These test shots did not work out how I hoped and I am overall not happy with how they turned out, however I am happy that I got some footage that can now be used as an early draft and examples when comparing it to my final video. I can now correct any of these filming mistakes and make improvements when filming the official footage as a way to avoid having to go back to the location once again to re-shoot. I used this test footage to create an example of the opening of my video which just features the intro music, I will then compare this to my final version in hope of seeing a good level of improvement. I also learnt from this experience that even though I felt I was being organised and planning ahead, I should try to plan even more in advance in the future as a way to avoid theses sort of situations again.

The day after this filming incident I received an email from the events co-coordinator from the museum apologizing for not reply sooner and gave me a list of the possible dates I could choose from for the following week, I have now replied asking to film on Wednesday the 10th of December and am hoping I will receive a reply soon.