Filming

During the filming of Baba Yangu we initially planned to film in Brick Lane as this was an urban area that reflected our youthful target audience and gave the piece a colourful grittiness with all the graffiti available. To shoot in this area we were required to get permission from the council which proved difficult at first as permission was needed from college but we eventually sorted this problem out by getting into contact with the finance department at college.

When filming we had difficulty figuring out how to do the tracking shots whilst walking backwards as this was the first time we had ever used this technique. We managed to get smooth enough shots that added to the realistic, gritty tone of our piece and convey the characters dialogue effectively and realistically.

Another problem we encountered was unreliable actors and interviews which caused problems when it came to editing and handing equipment in. This is because we had footage that still needed to be filmed. To solve this problem we had to take out a DV camera to film our missing footage thus having to down convert all our footage and our whole project down to DV.