Without a doubt the most stressful part of the project, we had to make sure we got permission to film where we wanted for our film. As our film was about Christmas, that meant going out and filming Christmas lights and decorations and all things Christmassy and so as we came to realise, that meant we were filming on a lot of different properties owned by Farnham Town Council, Waverley Borough Council, and some privately owned areas.
To get permission, we emailed a lot of different councils and we also phoned several and got permission over the phone.
We filmed at Farnham Castle to get a time lapse over Farnham town, to help set up our video at the beginning. We went to Farnham Castle to do this as it's the highest point in the area and we could go right to the top of the castle, and as we went at 3:30 we were able to show the sky getting darker.
We also filmed the outside of Farnham United Reformed Church, as the Christmas season is also about 'The Birth of Christ' and we thought it would have a nice relevance to our video. In this email it is referred to as the 'Sanctuary.'
We also needed to get some background music for our documentary that we had permission to use, and we found this piece by Tom Rosenthal called 'Go Solo,' and found that it really worked well with our story.
We also found and image of Farnham in 1973 online, and thought it would make a really nice addition to our documentary. We emailed the owners of the website it was found on to ask if they'd mind us using it for our film.
I was also given the task of completing the risk assessment for each of our shoots. I had to complete three pages of information about each different location we visited and assess how high risk the situations we would be filming in would be before we got signed off to be allowed to shoot.
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