Final shoot

29th November 2008


Last Saturday was our final shoot to do everything and so for us it was a very important shooting. The plan:
Tom and Hannah would arrive at my house at 9:00 and we would finish off our written work until 12 when Bekah was due to arrive. Bekah was to arrive around 12-12.30 and Sian at 2:00.
The first three hours that the group had before actors started to arrive was used productively. We finished off our storyboard and did our shooting script; we had to make sure that the final shoot went a lot smoother than our test shot. We had already started the storyboarding in our lesson and so we didn’t have too much to finish. Near the end of our 3 hours we took time out to go and set up our locations. We decided on lighting and positioning in the shed and also the living room.
As Sian was unable to attend the start of the shooting due to prior arrangements we decided to use the time effectively and with the equipment and actors we had we started to shoot the living room scene. There were 4 shoots to be filmed here with at least 3 takes of each. These were done well but we did come across a continuity error when filming. We realised that if we were filming these shots in the morning then there will be natural light coming in but by the time we come to film the last shot of the actual hostage video, it would be dark. And so Tom suggested we cut off all sources of natural light and use artificial lighting instead, this way we could create the exact scene when we came to film later on. BUT during shooting our living room shots we came across something that could really affect our overall sequence… we realised we hadn’t used the headphones for the first shot and when we went to find them; we couldn’t. We knew we couldn’t go on shooting without them otherwise our sound would be awful but we also new it was too late to phone miss or even pop into school. After panicking for at least 5mins we called around to see whether anyone had any headphones worth using, eventually we called Sian and thankfully she knew someone who was willing to lend us them, and so she collected them on her way round.
We were lucky to have noticed it before we started filming any scene which included dialogue; we were also careless to have not checked our equipment thoroughly! After this issue was resolved and Sian turned up we started filming the shed sequence. We did Sian and Bekah’s make-up and blood. The shoot in the shed went well and we managed to shoot everything with lots of different takes to choose from.

Overall, the shoot went well and we managed to get everything done. Again, I think our group get along really well and there weren’t many disagreements on ideas and discussion : )