Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Our second day filming !

11/02/2011

On Friday it was our second day of filming, i had to wear the exact same thing as last Friday so the night before i checked my list of the things i was wearing last time to make sure i had the things all ready. Me, Aaliyah, Naomi and Shanell i think were the only ones prepared because Jessica wasn't even wearing the same trousers as last time, and Shyanne didn't bring anything so she had to borrow clothes off of other people, we also had an actor in which plays the older version of Shyanne and which is the teacher/killer. 
  Like i mentioned last week, me and my peers had got interrupted while half way through filming the scene with Tammy(me), and Dawn(Shanell) in the staff room. On Friday though because we had booked all the rooms we was going to be using so we was allowed to use the place which we was using as our staff room last time. Most of the attention was on me while filming this time in this scene as Dawn(Shanell) was already meant to be dead. It was easy in some ways, although hard in some other ways, this is because sometimes i would have to say my lines and move somewhere, and when they cut i have to do it all over again and have to remember it, i got the hang of it after a while though, and i really enjoyed it. After round two hours finishing that scene we moved to our next scene which was meant to be the first scene of the hole short film. This scene took around two hours and a half to do as it is quite an important part of the film, we went over the scene hundreds of times, so that the person behind the camera which was Naomi could take different shots each time. At one point everyone got a close up onto their face  which i found quite funny as surprisingly everyone manged to keep a straight face even me. I did find this scene quite hard remembrance wise, because the scene was so long and there was just so much to remember, but i remembered everything in the end.
  When we was finally finished with that scene, we moved on to the cupboard, where we firstly did the bit where Dawn and Tammy jumped out on Courtney(Aaliyah) and Kimberley(Jessica) this scene was only a few seconds. The second Scene in the cupboard that we did, was where Naomi and Shyanne came into it and did the flashback, i was the camera person since Naomi was acting. i was amazed when i was filming this scene, because i didn't realize how much of a great actor Naomi was she played the part of Cynthia Waters perfectly, and i also think Shyanne played her part as the young teacher well as well. The next scene we did was near the cupboard also where Courtney was hiding in the cupboard and Tammy came to check on her, and this scene was the part where my character Tammy dies she is smothered to death and dragged away. The last scene of the day that we did was where the evil teacher let Courtney out of the cupboard and Courtney doesn't suspect a thing that its the teacher, until she watched the tape on the camera that she planted in front of the cupboard, and all you see is the teacher behind her and thats where the films meant to end. We haven't completely finished filming as we still need to finish off some, not quite sure yet. The last thing of the whole day that me, Naomi and Shyanne did was sing over the tannoy singing ring a ring a roses. which will be used somewhere during the short film. Next Friday we will need to hours more to completely finish everything.

Sunday, 6 February 2011

Our first day of filming (finally!)

 04/02/2011


  On Friday we had finally got around to filming our short film. Many people had come unprepared, but i was all ready and in costume ready to play my part. 
   i was in the first ever scene that we filmed, it was the scene that Tammy (me) and Dawn (Shanell) go into the staff room and mess around and at some point i find Dawn dead on the floor. We filmed about three quarters of the scene which took us about 2 hours almost because of all the takes we did from different angles, and all the different parts of the scene. The reason why we didn't get to film all of it was because we was rudely interrupted by a member of staff, and so we couldn't film the rest of our scene for the rest of the day. Because of the misunderstanding we went other places where we were meant to film and where we actually could film without interrupting anyone else. Next Tammy, Courtney (Aaliyah) and Kimberley (Jessica) went to all the hallways and our school gym and our hall where we did running scenes, this took up to 2 hours as well because we needed to do different angles and make sure we did it perfectly. It was our last hour until we finished school, and this time we just did the scene of Tammy and Courtney running down some stairs to an exit where it was locked and we started freaking out, but we got even more freaked out when we found that Kimberley wasn't behind us anymore and we had to go and find her. This took up the hole of our last hour, and i think we pulled it off because everyone seemed to be impressed. I can't wait until next Friday when we carry on filming, i cant wait to see the ending product.

Working on location!

28/01/2011

On friday me and my diploma class went on a trip to two different film sets where Don as filming his short 2 minute pragramme made for the iphone.
I found that this was a great experience as we got to meet real actors, directors, photographers, runners, boom operators, camera men, hair and make-up stylists, and A locations Manager. Everyone got split up, and they got to choose what person on set they would like to be with throughout the time we was there. Aaliyah was wth the assistant Director, Shanell was witht eh photographer, Shyanne was with the Camera man, Jessica was with the Make-up artist, Naomi was with Don(the Director) and i was with the Locations manager.
At first i thought staying with Deborah(the locations manager) would be quite boring, but as the day commensed i found that everyone else wasnt having half the amount of funj i was having with my partner. My first job was to go to starbucks for a man who owned one of the shops that the programme was being filmed, i still remember i got him a Latte with whole milk. After i fetched him his Latte, me and Deborah made our way to our next film scene. We had lond convosations about how she had to pick out all by herself the locations that the scenes were being shot, and once she had found a place to shoot a scene she would comfirm it with Don. She also has to make sure everyone eats and has the right equipment.
  At one point also me and Deborah went out and found a cafe where we had to order 30 sandwiches for everyone. the options were limited so people could only have white bread, either cheese, ham, or tuna, and it had no butter in it. me and my peers left before Deborah went to go and pick up the sandwiches later on.
  I learnt a lot on that day. I learnt about how a real film scene has to  be set out to make it look realistic, what props they have to use, how many different angles they have to take in just 'one' scene, i also learnt that theres many more people behind the scenes that are important so that everything goes to plan. There are pictures of our day out on location but unfortunately i don't have them right now so I'm going to post them in my next blog.