Filming Day

The Filming Day 

We filmed on Wednesday 22nd October at half 3 in the afternoon. We arrived at Wilnecote High School at 3.30pm with the make-up, hair and costumes all ready so we could get 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. Once we arrived we briefly discussed what we was going to film and in what order so that the actors would know what to do, this also helped the filming happen fluently. We showed the actors the filming schedule so they knew what to do for each shot and how long to do it for. When filming each shot we decided to record it for longer just in case there was any problems when editing it meant it we had more footage to play with. 

We shot all the villains parts first then the victims second. 

When filming our film we thought that some of the shots wouldn't make sense when we put them in the order we wanted to, so we shot some extra footage that we could add to make the film seem more fluent and help the viewer to understand it better. This played to our advantage as when we were reviewing the footage we found that without the extra footage it wouldn't of been as good.

Make-up:

We put make up on the actor to create Laurens character as she has been attacked and raped. We achieved this by using dark eye shadows and fake blood and just roughly blended it all over her body. We made her look bruised on her arms and face using black, purple and red colours then on her top smeared black eye shadow to make it look like dirt on her clothes then using fake blood we made a handprint round her neck to look like she's being strangled then poured some more blood onto her head to resemble a open wound. For her hair we had it in a high ponytail on top of her head so that you could see the makeup then made it all messy to give it a rough look.

What went well?

• We managed to film all the clips we needed as well as some extra back up shots.
• We had good time management as we stuck to our filming schedule.
• The actors took on the characters really well as they acted out the role exactly as we asked them to.

 What didn't go so well?

• One problem we had was that we didn't have a dolly to do any moving shots. This was a huge problem as we needed to record the actors walking down the corridor. To resolve this we used a office chair with wheels and a steady hand to record them walking however this was extremely tough as the camera would shake, however after a few practices we found that it was pretty easy and when editing it we liked the way it looked.
• We had spoken over a few of the clips so we couldn't use the sound this meant that we had to create sounds to go over the top of the film that was in sync with it. To resolve this we went to the recording studio and created our own sounds. Some of the sounds wasn't very good as the recorder picked up other sounds. As a result we had to use a few sounds of freesound.org, we tried to use as few as possible as we really wanted to use our own sounds.