I have decided that the best course of action for me to take would have been for me to film a 2 minute trailer, as opposed to the first 2 minutes of my film.
Something that I found helped the filming process was creating a set of storyboards for myself, which I would follow completely when coming up with certain camera angles and techniques out in my filming location.
I will attach photographs of these storyboards here.
My storyboards, although very basic in the way they are presented with simple "stickman-esque" characters and primitive descriptions of cast movements and dialogue, were very useful when I was out on location filming.
One feature I added to my storyboard was a series of check boxes next to each panel, that I would check off as I filmed each scene and voiceover. This allowed me to film scenes in order of convenience, rather than filming them in the order they appear. This saved me a lot of time and energy.
Another factor that affected the way my filming was handled was my previous decision to film "The Meeting" at the student accommodation at Doust Way as opposed to the pier that I wanted to film at previously. Because of the fact I had to retake a few scenes last minutes because of things I hadn't noticed while filming (gun-mic in shot, extras in shot that shouldn't have been, poor sound quality etc) filming so close to home was a very useful thing to do, as I could return to the shoot-location at short notice.
My next step will be to edit my film.
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