After fixing our final locations as a group, we set a date to shoot the first two scenes of the opening. As a group, we met in Tonbridge Park along with our actor, Ebony Paice and the extras, Brian Bradley, Ben Bradley and Ethan Simpson.
Luckily, there were not many people actually in the park which allowed us to film for a longer time, without the risk of shooting a member of the public without their consent. If this ever was a risk, we stopped filming and informed them what we were doing until they moved on and passed by.
We decided to use two options of costume for our protagonist, one which was dull and dark going along with the theme of drugs and the dark side of our comedy drama, and the other which went along with our colour scheme.
During the shooting, we were cautious of the swipe screen where one extra would run across the screen extremely closely which would switch the location to the brick wall. To make sure we got this shot done well, we had to overshoot to give ourselves options during the editing stage.
We decided to use a tripod instead of a handheld as we tested both, one walking and the other just zooming in, this was for the very first opening shot. The handheld was extremely shaky and did not give the effect we wanted so we decided to use a tripod which also improved the continuity as the second scene along the brick wall was also planned to be filmed in this way.
We then moved on to filming the brick wall after the swipe screen. As we shot each scene in chronological order, we started with the swipe screen which we again had to overshoot so that the switch between the two scenes could be consistent and smooth.
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