After watching Amir's presentation on Planning and Shooting, these are the three main points we learnt:

1. Do some research on the location

We were told, in the presentation, that one of the most important things that a group can do is research the area that the filming will be taking place in. 

This is important because there are problems that can arise that the group cannot forsee, but if the group is well planned and scouts out the area first, the group can avoid these dangers/problems.

Some of these problems involved can be:

• Outside noise, such as traffic sounds and the public.
• Certain time restrictions such as shop openings and closing, and rush hour crowds etc.

The way in which we will overcome this, is by visiting the location of the filming before the final filming date and doing a location recce.

      2.  Digital Storyboard

We were told in the presentation that we should take photographical evidence of the locations for our film, we should take different angles, frames and shot types and then print them off as a reference for filming. We could then map out our filming route onto google maps and this would allow us to know where we would walk and do our filming. If we were going to use a Close Up shot then we could try taking a Wide Shot aswell to see which shot we preferred once we got back to our planning stage.

       3.  Storyboard

I believe the most important phase of the planning, is the storyboard. I think the storyboard is easily the most important aspect to the planning for the simple reason that on the sheet, you can see every important feature of the scene, such as camera angles, positioning etc.