Baby on Board - Filming

When it came to film Baby on Board, we ran into a few problems.

The first of these was that the actor that played the main character wasn't initially in school on either day of filming. Luckily he turned up on day 1 in time to film the party sequence. On the second day however, he didn't turn up. At this point in the filming,  if we were to find a replacement to play his part, we would have to re-film everything we had done the previous day. For this reason, we chose to instead change the script so that it made sense that he was not in school.

Another problem that we encountered was that we were not entirely sure what we were doing I'm regards to what the actors were asked to do. When we planned the storyboards we knew what camera angles and where the music would fit, but we didn't have a clear idea in our heads of what we wanted from the actors. This meant that in the filming it was difficult for us to explain to them what we wanted them to do, making it harder to get the footage we needed. We put this right by shooting the scene a few times in different ways.

From filming Baby on Board,  I have learnt to that we need to plan every last detail of what will be seen on the screen, including what's needed from the actors. We should also have back up actors in case some can't turn up on the day.