Half Term Filming.

As we could not get the filming done for the week before we broke up for half term, because of the weather and people being ill, we decided to film the rest of our footage in the half term.So we booked out a camera and tripod on Friday 18th February. We did not have much left to film and so we decided to do this on Monday 28th February.

Filming Postponed.

Friday 4th February we decided that we would book out the camera and tripod so that we could film on Sunday  6th February, so before we did this, we asked all of the cast if the were available to film, and everyone was, except from one of the main actors, Connor, who plays Ben. Obviously, we couldn't film on Sunday, so we decided on filming another day when everybody was free.

Downloading Footage onto the Macs

On Friday 28th January, we downloaded the footage filmed in town onto the macs, ready for editing. The footage that we downloaded was 2 minutes and 29 seconds from 31 clips. We decided that this is not going to be enough footage to use when editing it together, so we are going to extend the length of the other scenes to make it longer.

Sunday 16th January

On Sunday 16th January, the cast for our opening two minutes all met up in town and we filmed the shots in town. We had difficulties with filming. the difficulties were that because we were in town, people kept walking into the shot and there was background noise from cars going past which meant we could not hear the dialogue as clear. However, town was not very busy and this made it easier than if it was very busy. We filmed shots from different angles so that once we get to the editing stage, we have lots of footage to choose from. This will make it easier for us as we will not have to go and film again. We plan to do more shots at a later date of when Ellie and her friends get ready for the party.

Sunday 9th January

We were going to film on Sunday 9th January but, we forgot to get the camera out from school, so we now plan to film the town shots on Sunday 16th January instead. Once we have filmed, we can then put our footage onto the Macs so that it is ready to be edited together.

Filming

As our opening 2 minutes have to be filmed by the end of February, we need to sort out when everyone is able to film. We were not able to film in the Christmas holidays because of the snow and ice, which is not in our scene, the Christmas decorations were still up in town and they are not part of the Mise-en-Scene.

Casting

We have now sorted finalised who is in the casting for our open scene. the people that we have chosen to include in it are:

• Myself as Ellie (a bubbly, confident and heartless person)
• Jamie Reed as Matt (a funny, friendly and smart person) 
• Connor Hobbs as Ben (a short tempered, mysterious and twisted person) 
• Hayley Bell as Friend #1 (a happy, sociable and sensible person)
• Natasha Weldon as Friend #2 (a loud, sociable and bubbly person)
• Ellie Markie as Friend #3 (a trustworthy, honest and caring person)
• Aaron Payne as Friend #4 (a nice funny and short-tempered person)