Issues

21.02.13
Throughout this project so far we have encountered a few issues.

• The ancilliary tasks (the poster and magazine cover) are to be created with the use of photoshop, something neither of us have any previous experience with thus we have struggled using this programme. Our college lecturer has briefly went through the basics of it with us aswell as supplying us with a powerpoint for us to refer back to for help as well as offering continuous support while we use the programme. We have found its more trial and error with discovering the uses of various buttons and how they alter the image/writing etc.
• We previously found it hard to get hold of a working camera to film our footage due to other media classes in the college having the camera out for filming their coursework and had yet to return them. This slightly delayed us, however we did get to lend a camera in the end and captured some material soon after, then we gave it to another group so they could use it before we got it back and filmed more footage for our project.
• We initially planned to have 4 actors in our trailer and we had four volunteers who were willing to be in the project. However different commitments and schedules proved to difficult to arrange a time for everyone to be available at once. We understoof this was all part of the challange but it proved to be a issue. We kept pushing filming back to a later date hoping we would get a chance to film with everyone. We eventually agreed to film with less people (2) as it was getting too risky leaving filming so late as we wanted a decent amount of time to edit the material and hoped it any shots were faulty we could go back and film again.
• The weather is an unpredictable factor which everyone has to deal with and consider in regards to filming. The first time we went to the location to film, there was snow on the ground. We began to film regardless as we felt it didnt afftect the look of out film to a negative degree and we didnt want to put off filming anylonger as we werent too sure of how much longer the snow would lay on the ground, we assumed it would be another week at least. We hoped to complete all filming this day but the cold weather proved harsh and after a couple hours we headed back to the house to get warm again as the actors were freezing and felt they couldnt carryout the actions we wanted them to, so we decided to split the filming to two seperate occasions.  After this day of filming, the snow was gone by the next morning. We didnt want to waste the good footage we previously captured so instead of refilming it all, we decided to amend the first draft of the story board to consider a different location for some of the scenes we hadnt yet filmed to indoors so we could avoid having the continuity error of no snow.
• During the creation on our promotional poster, we did not have the appropriate font of steal tongs to make our credits. Our lecturer helped us get use of it, and she went through the process of ringing the required people who could download it onto photoshop. This gave us an issue that we couldn't finish our poster until we had the font for the text. However, we moved on agreeing to go back to it so we did not waste time and began to develop our promotional magazine.