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Day 2 of Filming

The second day of filming was largely successful; myself and Christal arranged to meet with the Libby (Maria), Helen (Scarlett) and Jude (the social worker) to shoot a short part of the trailer after school today. Shahnaaz was unavailable on this day to take pictures of us filming, so I will include some pictures of what we shot from the trailer. Despite having difficulties with our shooting location, we managed to overcome this by finding a suitable alternative that would accommodate our needs.

(http://zoefreemana2media.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/location-photography-3-school.html)

In researching locations to shoot, I came across both of these rooms and thought that they would be an appropriate setting for the scene where Scarlett meets Maria. The mis-en-scene is very plain and simplistic, allowing the audience to focus on the characters in the shot. Furthermore, the white walls connote isolation and emptiness which is the tone that myself and my group want to establish during our trailer. However, the day we went to shoot in this location, there was a meeting being held meaning that we had to find another suitable location to film in. Luckily, we found a room that was very similar to that of these two meaning that we were able to create the same atmosphere in our trailer. With hindsight, I have made a note to make sure to check on the day with every location we shoot at to make sure that we are still able to use it as this is not something that myself or my group want to be repeated.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CepazW6E99U)

I was concious of making sure we incorporate a number of different shot types in our trailer, so I suggested we do an over the shoulder shot which focuses on Scarlett's face so the audience are able to establish that she is the central focus of the trailer and also so they can understand her character better. I also suggested we take a two shot of Maria and the social worker so the situation of Scarlett's adoption can be contextualised better for the audience. There was also some other shots we took that wasn't edited into the trailer, for example we took a medium close up of all the characters saying their lines to see if this would be of use in post-production.

Myself, Christal and the actors spent a large amount of time filming on this day. The amount of footage we took compared to the amount we used is something we were surprised at during the post production stages. It also meant that during the day of filming, we had to overrun slightly which wasn't very professional as we told the actors a specific time. Moving forward with this, myself and Christal have decided to write a detailed plan of what we will be filming when for the next shoot as this one was slightly unorganised.

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Day 1 of Filming

Today, myself and my group filmed the first scene of our horror trailer. The scene we shot is the one in the storyboard which features Scarlett nervously waiting for her fate to be decided and meet her new parent. I did all of the filming for this scene; Christal checked how I positioned the camera and made sure Helen knew how to perform, whilst Shahnaaz took pictures of us talking about the shots and me filming. We decided to film this scene during our lunch break as it only features Helen, and we would be able to go to our next Media lesson (which was after lunch) with something to edit. However, we experienced a number of problems with filming at this location. Firstly, this room is normally where students go when they are unwell at school; we were warned that students may be in there when we went to film and also that we would need to leave if someone came and needed to sit in the room. We also underestimated how much space there was in the room as it became hard to maneuver the camera equipment and ourselves in a very small space. Finally, as it was our first time filming, we completely underestimated how long it would take to get the shots right and how many times we would have to practice doing it before getting it perfect. Fortunately, our actress Helen was very understanding about the situation, as were the staff who let us use the room.