The filming of 'a sweet surprise'

It began very well, we were all prepared had all our props and equipment. only problem was that we had different bracelets than we originally planed but that wasn't really a problem. I was acting in the film, so i had to dress up as a school girl with my hair in bunches. It was hard in the beginning because there was a scene with me and Laura trying to act childish, i literally couldn't stop myself from laughing at one point. I wouldn't say i was a born actress but i did my best. I thought of something sad and tried my best to hold the giggles in. There was a slight slip up (excuse the pun) when there was a close up of me, as the camera zoomed in on my face Laura slipped up on a piece of paper as she was trying to exit, this made me laugh. Luckily it sort of looked like i was crying as i tried my best not to smile. we also had some problems with the camera, it kept on going fuzzy and didn't want to focus on anything. Early on Lauren fixed it so it didn't effect the majority of our film. One thing that did get annoying is the way people reacted to the camera, no one wanted to be filmed and they got very irate about us getting in there way. Some people made rude comments but i just ignored them and we waited till the shot was clear till we filmed. i thought there might have been a problem with filming in the sweet shop but we asked inside and the girl was very nice she said we could do what ever we want as long as we didn't film her. It was a good job we asked. i learnt that when filming you have to be very prepared and have it all planned out. You have to be patient and understand that people really don't like to filmed and they don't usually care if they ruin your shot or not so you just have to wait for them to leave. Also to be polite if you are going to film outside or inside someones shop you should ask first as you will get a much better response. WE walked past another group that were filming down the alley that was next to someones house, they didn't let him know what they were doing. The man came out very angry and rude he asked lots of questions and wasn't very happy. He didn't seem like he liked students very much anyway but he might have been a bit more accepting if they told him first.