Well first off both the M5 Glass shoot and the Air Ambulance shoot went really well. So far we have only filmed the Helicopter landing in Wells Cathedral though and not the headquarters and the helipad yet. We are hoping to film these other locations next week some time. Also next week we will probably be given many more companies to research and film.

The main thing that went bad in the Air Ambulance shoot was the fact that it was raining and the helicopter got called to loads of different emergencies and everyone thought it wasn't going to turn up and the health and safety people had all packed up and left by the time they arrived. We all packed up of cameras and tripods and got back on the mini bus only to discover that we had to get off again and set the cameras and tripods up again because some mis-communication caused it to be late, the only other reason it was late was because of the emergencies. Some FDA students managed to get some footage of the helicopter tending to an emergency in another location, and they managed to get some shots inside the cockpit too. Me and James however were filming right near the helicopter and right near the Cathedral using a HD Panasonic Internal Memory camera and there was a mass of wind when the helicopter landed obviously. Rob and Shaun were using either a DVX-100 or a SD-60 to capture some shots from a different angle so we could combine them with our shots in the editing process. Obviously we would have to do some colour and sound correction to make the quality of the picture and audio seem like it came from the same camera. I filmed as close to the cockpit as possible, and I also filmed the logos on the helicopter and the people who were inside the helicopter when they came out of it. I filmed the rotor blade. James also filmed all those things too.

Another thing that went bad during the Air Ambulance shoot was the fact that Jake put a camera inside the helicopter and it took off with it still inside and our group got the blame for it even though we had nothing to do with it and we didn't even know about it until we arrived in Wells. We managed to get it back in the end but it was still bad as people were jumping to conclusions about us and it was down to bad communication again, not just between teachers and students, but also between the Air Ambulance people and the College.

At M5 Glass a thing that went well was the interview itself as the manager answered are questions perfectly to out specifications, but a thing that went bad was the sound as we filmed the interview from two different angles and with two different cameras, so basically we had two run throughs of it. The sound we got off the Panasonic HD camera was actually clearer and louder and much better quality than the sound we got off of the boom pole that we had plugged into the DVX-100. We are going to use all the footage from the Panasonic HD camera and none from the DVX-100. We are probably going to use a combination between the DVX-100 audio and the Panasonic HD camera audio. We will turn up the sound levels on the DVX audio during the editing process. I think the issue was we had the cable plugged into the socket on the camera too far in and we should have took it out a little bit. Plus Shaun was probably holding the boom pole too low down so we didn't get it in shot but the audio generally comes out clearer if we hold the boom pole low down instead of high up as the mic is closer to the person's mouth.

We started off at M5 by having a tour of the factory which we didn't film and then we did the interview after which we did film. We then commenced for scouting the complex for cutaways, first of all in the reception area by filming things such as mirrors, mugs, leaflets, glass, stained glass and key chains. We filmed signs of M5 Glass inside and then we went outside the front to film more signs and a shutter. We then had to re-enter the factory and this time we did film things. When we were in the factory the manager had to be with us at all times because of health and safety. We filmed things like control panels, various machines such as heating and cooling down ones, some work hats, the glass itself, some employees working and the manager operating a crane. We then went out the back of the factory to film the rubbish glass tips and the side of their lorry/truck which had logos, mottos, slogans and the name 'M5 Glass' on it. We also filmed a shutter out the back. Another thing that went bad was that some of our crew kept getting in the shots because of the reflections in the mirrors and we tried to avoid it as much as possible but it was very unlikely that we would be able to avoid it altogether. Fortunately, there was only one crew member in any one shot at any one time. We tried to edit it out as much as possible but we couldn't edit out all of it.