As far as I can tell, our group had problems with shooting the documentary right from the start. Firstly, the camera our group was using had also been used by the other Media class, but hadn't been put away to charge properly. We had approximately one or two minutes of recorded footage before the camera died. The exact same thing happened the next time we were supposed to film, so a large amount of time was spent charging the camera rather than actually using it. This single-handedly destroyed our shooting timetable, meaning that we had to improvise and shoot as much as we could as quickly as we could.
Eventually, it was decided to just shoot all the footage we could at the time, and use mobile phones to capture and images we would need to use in the documentary. However, another problem arose - our group was apparently told that filming footage and taking pictures was prohibited inside the Harvey Centre - despite it being a designated public place, and it therefore being completely legal to film footage inside - which meant that the vast majority of our footage was from outside the Harvey Centre, on the High Street, and around the Water Gardens. This in itself wasn't much of a problem, but it did mean that the documentary would lack the variety that we'd hoped to inject with the usage of footage from within the Harvey Centre.
It could have been worse, though.
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