Our Filming Day

As stated before, on Sunday 29th of January, my media group and I organised to come into our school alongside our actors in order to finish our planned shots.

We had and kept to a strict schedule for the three hours we were on site, so we could accurately and efficiently finish what was needed to be done. Yes it proved to be quite a challenge, but luckily we managed to complete what was needed to be done.

However, before we could attempt to plan our shots for every hour, my group and I realized we would have to thoroughly plan all the aspects of Mise En Scene, to really depict and make apparent the finer details within each shot. 

We asked Jake (our main actor) to bring in his green jacket, and to wear his school trousers to continue to define our school theme within our Thriller. John (our Hitman) was advised to wear a dark coloured suit, alongside a Black Coat in which Matt (a member of my group) provided. I myself provided a pair of leather black gloves in order to solidify and finish the Hitman look in which we imagined previously. 
Matt, Laura and I decided to arrive at school slightly earlier than planned, in order to go over what we needed to achieve within our time slot, and also to set up all of the equipment. We also needed to re-arrange the English Room, as we established we should take down certain posters and pictures, to clearly direct our audiences that the room is an English. 

Our filming actually began at around 10:00 am:
My group experiences very minor complications with our camera and SD Card. We thought the best way to tackle our scene filming was to complete them in chronological order, as this saves all confusion! 
Thankfully, we had previously already filmed half of our scenes, so we started with the computer scenes, as these were the scenes that needed to be tackles most. Luckily, very minimal re-takes were needed for these scenes, as they were quite straight forward, and everyone cooperated well. 

It was now 11:00am; we were well on our way to accomplishing all of our shots within good time. As we came to our shot on Jake's close ups of his eyes, we encountered a slight problem with the lighting. The shadow from the camera angle continued to show up on Jake's cheek, which therefore was ruining our shot massively.
In conclusion, we were then challenged with the task of finding various spaces which would leave us with a cleaner shot, rather than a dark one due to the strength of light. Luckily, we found two angles and heights that rectified this problem.

Our final hour and a half consisted of clearing away all of our equipment, and then going over the famous 'Hitman Skip Section'. This had proved to be our hardest scene to correct to the highest level. Our first attempt was actually our favourite attempt as we feel all of our angles and positions were perfected to a very high quality. However when we then showed our media teacher, he pointed our several errors. There were countless prop problems, as school ties were within our shots, alongside our bottles of water and many more tiny errors.

On our second attempt, our camera lense was clearly not as clean as we thought, so most of our shots either came our fuzzy or completely unclear. due to sheer frustration, we decided to leave this scene until the Sunday, as then we would have had a lot more time to clearly fix any thoughtless mistakes.

Fortunately, our third and final attempt was very successful, and had no mistakes!