Filming - Day 8 - 31st January - by Josh

 Yesterday we attempted to film the last shot of our final cut, but we unfortunately came across a problem. We were going to film at the Priory Centre car park, and after about 15 minutes of mapping the location and working out what we wanted to film, a security guard came up and told us that we were not able to film in the car park due to it being private property. This was extremely irritating as we found that this would be perfect for re-filming the car park scenes, and we knew it would be very difficult to find another suitable location, as well as not having a lot of daylight left. After we looked around a few areas, Luke noticed that we did not have the tripod. While Luke, Dan and I went to look at the industrial area as a possible location, James and Phil went to look for tripod in McDonalds, where we ate for lunch. Thankfully, it was still there, but by the time they'd found it, Luke, Dan and myself had looked around the industrial area and discovered that this also, would not be suitable. By this time nightfall was nearly upon us, and after some discussion, we decided that we would try and film today at 'Stone House', an old abandoned mental asylum. We do not have much time for this as Dan and Phil have lessons until 3.30, therefore Luke and I shall go at 1 o' clock to scout the area and set up the camera shots. James is going to meet us at 2.30, which will hopefully gives us enough time to discuss the technical areas of the scene, until James's mother drops Dan and Phil off at the location at around 3.45, giving us just under an hour to film.

 When we got to Stone House we scouted the location for about an hour around the area, including the abandoned houses next to Stone House. The scene we wanted to film required a space where the thief could be trapped by the masked men against a wall or something similar. Unfortunately, after searching we found there wasn't anywhere suitable around Stone House, since in every situation there was no exit route for the thief to take, e.g. we considered him running up to the house and attempting to open a door to no avail, but the only option for the thief to take would be to run the same way he had came which would be blocked by the masked men. However, before Dan and Phil arrived we found a place where we thought we could shoot the scene (image below).
 
 We thought this could work as Dan would run up to the wooden door and attempt to force it open, where Phil and I would slowly walk up the ramp towards him.

 

 After several shots (images below) of us advancing on Dan, he would leap over the fence as the lyrics 'brace yourself for the grand finale' are heard. Both myself and Phil would follow him by simultaneously jumping over the rail that ran along the rail and continue to chase him.

 

 

 

 This was a rather difficult day for us, as the location was relatively unknown to us (apart from Luke), it was awkward to get to and we had little time in which to film. Despite this, we managed to shoot all the shots we wanted in the time required before darkness fell which we were all satisfied with. Hopefully this was our last filming day, as accumulated they have taken up more than a week to film all the shots we know have, despite us not using every shot filmed (such as the car park scene where it seems none of those shots will be used).