Filming- not as easy as i first thought!

So last week me, Maddie and Dean all went down to Brighton to do our filming, we felt very organised as we had our shot list and schedule all prepared and felt that we had done everything we could in the way of pre organisation. Unfortunately we ran into our first problem of Leanne dropping out of the documentary the night before we were due to shoot and so change this interview from the opinion of Sam's best friend, to the opinion of her younger brother.  We did all the shots we could for that day including Lorraines interview, Sam's interview and Ricky's interview and pick ups of things such as monuments around Brighton and children playing. When we got back to Maidstone and into the studios we reviewed all of our footage and immediately knew that we would need more sequences and actuality. We were also told by Helen our lecturer that Sam's interview would not be substantial enough considering she was the main focus of this documentary.
Because of this i decided to go back to Brighton myself on Friday and re shoot my sisters interview and the other pick up's that were needed. The rest of the group and myself thought this would be a good idea as I am Sam's sister and may get more emotion out of her if it was just me there. As soon as i started to set up the interview I knew it was going to be a lot harder then I orginally thought: thinking about things such as framing, lighting, sound issues and asking the questions all at once was a lot to handle and i found it near impossible. I brought what i did manage to do back to the studios and yet again found it was not good enough to use, although some of the pick ups of Sam's family and these sequences were perfectly usable.
Because of this it meant that me, Maddie and Dean would have to re shoot my sisters interview once again. We were all thinking... Third time lucky please!
Due to me falling ill Maddie and Dean met me in Brighton and we cracked on straight away with my sisters interview, immediately it was much easier with two other people and more then one opinion to get the results we wanted! After finally shooting Sam's interview we then did some sequences of Sam and her mother Lorraine and shots of Sam and her brother Ricky.
This experience has taught me that on a shoot you need at least one other person with you at all times to help with the different elements of filming!

Abbi