Difficulties and problems when filming

When we went to film our opening sequence we were very optimistic as the weather was exactly how we wanted it to be, the lighting outside and the colour effect this gave was prefect for filming. Luckily this did not change or rain throughout the duration of filming the whole opening sequence. Whilst we were there we managed to get all of the footage we wanted to film in the location we had chosen and our actor was willing to do the shots that we had planned to do.
We did find it difficult when filming the smoking scenes as the cigarette would go down and we realized there would be continuity issues with having the cigarette at different points for each shots so we had to keep lighting more.
However, our opening sequence heavily relies on really good acting, as we progressed to the scenes where this good acting was needed we were less confident with the outcome of the shots. We felt that we would give directions of what to do to the actor but he couldn't really give us the overall result and look of how we wanted the shot to look. Nevertheless we carried on encouraging the actor and got all the shots filmed as we didn't want the whole day of filming to be wasted.
Once we had finished we were able to watch the footage back, overall we were not very happy with what we had ended up with due to the acting that the actor had presented. We felt quite let down with this and we very worried as we had a time schedule to stick to as we wanted to make sure that we filmed our footage before we got back to school from the half term. We finally came to the conclusion that we would import the footage and watch it back properly on the macs to see whether or not it was any different on a bigger screen.
When we had watched the footage on the bigger screen we decided then and there that we had not produced a sequence that any of us were happy with and we felt as if we had missed quite a few opportunities for some better shots to be included in our opening two minutes. We then made the decision to go back to re-storyboarding and changing our idea in order to make sure we could have an actor that we could rely on to really show the emotions that are needed to be portrayed in the sequence.