Top tips for filming.

Top tips for filming your project:

• Make sure your camera is fully charged
• If possible take an extra battery with you as cold weather can drain your battery quickly
• Make sure you are familiar with most or all of the functions on your camera
• Make sure you have enough space on your memory card to capture all your footage and you will need to take more than one shot of each scene
• Allow yourself to get to the location to set your equipment up
• Make sure you have your shot list with you so you know what and how long it should take you to film a certain shot
• Make sure you do a location recce so you are familiar with your surroundings
• Make sure you have permission to film in your location 
• eg:
• car parks
• public parks
• shopping centres
• college classrooms
• college after hours
• resturants
• cafes
• private property
• Make sure someone knows where you are and when in case of an emergency
• Make sure all cast and crew know where to be and when
• Make sure you have back up cast so you can definitely film when planned to