Disruptions to Filming.

Adverse Weather Conditions.
As has been widely aware no only in the UK but across Europe and other continents the snow of December 2010 had caused major disruption to the running of everyday life. Here in Kent, England we also suffered from the adverse weather conditions of Scotland and Northern England. This caused havoc for our media studies filming date as the snow was not suitable for the style of film that we are portraying.

Scene of Edinburgh, Scotland at the beginning of December 2010.

The snow at the end of 2010 caused massive disruption to public travel, our group members live in different locations in the Thanet area. Any travel was difficult and potentially dangerous as we were advised not to travel, especially into rural areas that are not prepared for these weather conditions. One of our group members, Liam, lives in Minster Kent which was our film location but it was inaccessible for Anthony and I as the roads and rail were too dangerous to travel. I myself lives one and half miles from Minster but rural roads even by foot would have been potentially dangerous due to black ice and other motorists that have tried to commute to work or home. 

With the shifting and unpredictable weather conditions it would not be advisory for our group to commence shooting as this could be a huge problem when considering the continuity. For example, if one day we began by shooting the film within two days and we need to add any cuts at a later date, snow patterns can be different or thawed completely. Our only option was to suspend filming to a later date when the snow had thawed, it however gave us a huge opportunity of making touches perfect in our storyboard and research that we had to undertake. 

Actors. 

One major setback for our filming was the actors that we wanted to use in our film, we have all arranged the characters and were ready to begin shooting. However one member of our had to be called away due to her husband falling ill. This then resulted in (Ethel) to be unavailable for some time which meant we needed to create a contingency plan in order to continue filming. 

In order to do this we opened out our storyboard and began scanning through our frames noting where the character (Ethel's) main shots were to make any changes with shots, editing and time. After a meeting with our teacher we discussed that a new aspect will need to be put forward in order for the continuation of the filming and editing. The changes are enlisted below;

Character Replacement.
After a large discussion with my teacher and group we decided that due to these reasons that the narrative should be changed and adapted in order for us to be able to complete it successfully. We found it difficult to replace the character of Ethel which lead the group into drastic measures, we intially asked people of our age group if they would be happy to portray the character of Ethel, but however this would have a dramatic effect on the realism of the film.

In a real life situation we do not see Nuns in the age group of 17/18. It would be a major problem that we needed to address. The best solution was to change the characters and make minor touches to the storyboard, we still wanted to follow on the same lines of the original script to portray the character in hardship and how homosexuality is unaccepted in certain churches.

We decided to replace the Female characters with Male characters as this would be a much easier venture. As a group we were made up of three Male characters. We could easily change the narrative to suit the genre of the original work by scrapping Nuns into a highly religious man who mistakenly opens his true feelings to a fellow friend.