Filming Day

We filmed our film in the October half term on Wednesday 22nd October. Because we have 2 weeks off and Wilnecote don't, the students were still at school so we arrived at half 3 when school was finished when all the students had gone home but the teachers were still in. We arrived with makeup, hair and costume all ready so we could start filming as soon as possible.

We brought our filming schedule with us so that we could follow it shot by shot to make sure we filmed everything we needed to and didn't forget any shots or the way we wanted to shoot it. Once we arrived we discussed briefly what we wanted to film, the order we are filming in and what the actors needed to do and how long for. We also showed the actors the filming schedule. These things made the filming process run fluently.

When we filmed we recorded the shots for longer than we needed just in case there was a problem when we edited. Also we recorded some more footage to play around with, just incase what we filmed wasn't enough or didn't look right. We filmed the villains parts first and then the victims parts afterwards.

What went well?

• During the filming process we thought that some of the shots might not make sense when we put them in the order we wanted to. Therefore we shot some extra footage that we might add to make the film seem more fluent, interesting and help the viewer understand it better. This played to our advantage because when we watched the footage afterwards we realized that the shots we filmed looked effective and we think our film will look better with them.
• We filmed every clip we needed to film and all the angles looked the way we wanted it too.
• Non of the clips took too long/too short to film so we stuck to our filming schedule successfully.
• The people we chose for the cast did a really good job of getting into the characters and playing the parts exactly how we wanted them too.
• Kate did Ellie's (Lauren's) makeup to show that she was abused by the man. She used fake blood, dark eye shadows and various other makeup products to do this. This made our scene look realistic because she really did look like she had been abused which will help the audience understand the story. 

What didn't go well?

• We forgot to bring a plastic cup with us for the part where the characters drink the water but this was resolved quickly because we borrowed a cup from school and although it wasn't plastic we were careful and it was suitable for the scene.
• The lady who acted as the police woman left the school without us knowing while we were filming a part with the man so we didn't get to film her saying the rights. We now have to do just do a voice over of a female adult saying them and just put it over the top of the clips.
• We wanted to film the villain and the victim walking down the corridor but we didn't have a dolly to put the camera on which we could wheel along. So one of us had to sit on an office chair while the other pushed them along so we could move behind them walking. At first it was quite hard to do because the wheels werent very straight and kept rolling sideways rather than forwards. But once we got the hang of it worked well because we managed to get the shot to look quite effective. However the sound of the chair being rolled was very loud in the clip so we had to mute the clip.
• We talked over quite a few of the clips and there was some background noise so when we edit we need to mute the videos. We will have to record a wildtrack to go over the top so in parts we don't have voice overs and other noises it isnt complete silence because in a police station there wouldn't be complete silent. Also we weren't going to get a voiceover for some parts like the finger tapping, we were just going to have the noise on the clip,but  now we will have to do that.