I found trying to think of an idea for this project really hard as I've had no experience in creating films at all. We eventually came up with the idea of a hunt for a missing jigsaw piece. I won't say any more as I don't want to give away the ending!
To begin with the planning, we developed a list of tourist spots that we would have the character (played by me) walk past, on their hunt. We then transferred these onto a storyboard to decide the exact order of the destinations and to plan what else happens in the film. Soon it was time to get to the actual filming process which I was very excited about because I felt like a proper media student then.
Filming started on Monday morning, and it was a lovely grey day with freezing temperatures - just what you want when you're filming by the sea, or river, or lake...(i think the Mersey is a river though, worst scouser ever). We shot approximately half the film and it went really well. Unfortunately I didn't get to use the camera much because I was being filmed, but the bits that I got to use it for I loved. We used a range of different types of shots, from establishment shots to extreme close ups, and moved the camera around in interesting ways at times. I also had to publicly humiliate myself by going on the Liverpool One carousel alone, just me on it with a load of little kids...major awk. Hopefully we will be finishing the filming soon (well we don't really have a choice) and I'm waiting in anticipation to start the edit...
I'll keep you updated, although the way this blog is going, you'll probably hear about it in 2020
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