Filming Log

Tuesday 4th February-


Today in our media lesson we began filming some of our interior shots for our thriller. Whilst Adam and Scott sorted out our equipment, I helped Alex get into character (We sorted out her make-up, hair and clothing). Originally, we wanted to do some exterior shots to show how Rae's character is isolated from the rest of the school/world but because the weather has been unpredictable we decided to change out exterior shots to interior shots in order for us top have more time filming. During this hour, Adam filmed Alex sitting at a table in the corner of the social area away from the rest of the pupils. Myself and Scott threw pieces of screwed up paper at Alex to show the physical torment that Rae goes through on a daily basis. To make the shots brighter (because the area we were in wasn't very well lit) we used individual lights that clipped onto the top of the camera.  Adam also filmed several shots of Alex staring out into the courtyard.


Wednesday 5th February-


In today's media lesson, we spent an hour filming. We got several different shots of Alex (Rae) such as Alex standing at a table on her own admiring everyone else's friendships and a shot of Alex standing at the glass doors looking out into the distance. However during this shoot we had an issue with the reflections of myself and Adam in the glass so we had Scott hold two of the individual lights near Alex's face to take some of the reflection away. We also moved to the left of the camera (it was pointing towards the right) which seemed to work.


Thursday 6th February-


As we had two days worth of footage, our plan for todays lesson was to sort through it all and see if we needed to do any re-takes. After sorting through the footage we decided that we didn't need to do any retakes but we do have a lot of bloopers which we placed into a separate folder.