Our original plan was to film his brother play football with his team but he didn't want to go, so we weren't going to force him as he is only little. Also because these kids are very young we wouldn't have permission to film them all together.
As this didn't work out for us, we first went down to the bottom of Theo's block in order to see how it would be when we would be filming between these columns. We found that it was too dark and so we moved to the next block.
As you can see in the pictures below everything was clearer due to the fact that there was more light, but we would still benefit with some more lights. (Eg Matt's car)
After that we went down to the youth club and filmed young kids play basketball. We were lucky and three of the older boys said they would help us as well. Below are the some pictures showing us filming the older guys.
When we filmed the younger boys it wan't so easy. Me and Theo decided we have to get the boys to play in a certain area so that when the camera isn't hand held, it can capture everything that's happening. So I got the boys together and showed them lines on the basketball court and told them where they can go and which lines they shouldn't cross whilst playing. This was quite easy at first but with time, seeing as they were only kids, they got carried away and forgot about our rule. We let them carry on because we wanted to capture the moments when they are fighting over the ball and when they are running around being themselves.
After that we decided we were going to have a little bit of structure to the whole thing. We asked the older boys to play in front of the wide graffiti board because it gave us a nice shot.
Overall, we found the day fun. It showed us what we have to expect from the weather, time of day and locations.
