Filming the outside scene of 'Holloway Road'

We decided as a group to film the outside scenes in the outside in ware, as we felt ware was a practical place to film and easier for everyone to get to. We filmed on the 26th of November 2009 and we used the same equipment as the previous week. We spent about an hour or slightly longer filming in Ware. We thought hard and long about what we wanted to film outside and what the location had to be, after a couple days of thought we decided to film down an alleyway which seems tatty and a bit 'worn down' if you like. We chose this because you do not expect hooligans to be hanging around nice areas which look clean, you expect them to be in place where no body can recognise them easily hence the tattered area down an alleyway.



We came across a few problems whilst filming the outside scenes. Firstly as we arrived at the alleyway, we tried to turn on the camera however we found out it had no battery, luckily the charger for it was in the bag we had with us otherwise we would have had to travel back to school and charge it and then come back, which by then it would have been dark and unable to film. As we had the charger we went to Lyle Petts' house to charge it which was a two minute walk from our filming area and charged it for thirty minutes and resumed filming. This still gave us a very limited amount of time to film our shots and the battery was only 10% charged, this was a cause for concern whilst filming as we had to turn it off everytime we had filmed a shot, and could not risk watching over our footage because we did not want to risk the battery running out. However we did manage to film all of our shots before it got dark. We will learn from this mistake as we all should have checked to see if the camera had battery before we left school to film.



Part of the reason why we filmed outside was because, whilst filming the inside scenes we felt that Lyle was the only character really doing anything in the opening scene, so we decided that we should have shots of myself and William's journey to the house to meet Lyle. We also wanted to show the viewers how we got to Lyles instead of just turning up.



Our last shot which was myself Lyle and William walking down an alleyway in slow motion towards the camera was thought in an instant, we had not planned it but as we were there we got a feel for the place and decided it would be a good idea. We also used a low angle shot to make the three characters look more powerful and feared. We also thought it would be a good oppourtunity to use a voice over as it would fit in well.



Overall, I felt filming outside went well, despite the problems we had before hand, the outside scenes also gave us a chance to use a wider variety of shots which we are proud of.

Filming altogether was enjoyable and i felt we worked well as a team, we all encouraged eachothers opinions and listened to what eachother had to say if they thought it was valid and important.