Firstly, before we could even start filming we had to go down to our school theatre and check what days the theatre was free and what lessons we could use it. The theatre was only free 2 lessons during our media lessons, so we ended up coming to the conclusion that we was going to have to film some of it after school if we wanted to use the theatre. Our actual filming started around 3 weeks ago. On the Tuesday in our double media lesson we spent the first lesson going over the script and printing it all of, and also making sure everyone in our group knew exactly what jobs they had to do.
The second lesson was when we went down to the theatre to film. We filmed all our first section up to the part where the story jumps into the future. Me Liam and Tom were all performing in the film and Daniel was given the job of filming and directing as he was one of the better group members when it came to using a camera. Whilst we were filming this section we encountered a few problems, one of them being that we were meant to be in the 1950's and we were wearing very fashionable clothes from today and it didn’t look right, so we all tried to find clothes to go with the date of our film but we couldn’t find anything of our own and the school theatre would not let us borrow any of theirs, so we had to change our ideas and move the dates from (50 to present day) to (1998 to 2008).We also had the problem of the theatre looking up to date and it having all new seating and curtains which didn’t go with our dates so again this was another reason why we had to change our dates of the film.
When it came to editing I didn’t really play a huge part in it, I just gave my opinion as to what I thought should be done and what was good and what was bad. Also in our editing process we had the problem of finding some copyright free music that was free for us to use in our film, we spent lots of lesson time surfing the internet to find some music. Eventually we found a great website that had all different moods of music, after looking on this website we found some awesome music that fitted the theme of our film. We have also had a few problems with continuity, as the lighting went weird when in some of our filming when it came to use editing it so we have to record it again this Friday after school. There was also the fact that recently there had been several school productions and performance exams taking place so the back drop and set in the theatre changed all the time, we were having to find the correct time to go when the correct scenery was around. On Friday we asked 3 girls in our year to take part on the film to play the parts of the 3 girls, they were fine at the fact that they had to dance but when they were told they were going to have to talk as well they weren’t too happy, so we changed the script a little bit so that there wasn’t so much to say. Whilst filming we had to film the section about a girl dying around 4 or 5 times as eve and jess kept on laughing whilst they were saying their lines.
Today (11/3/09) we came to do the final editing of our film and a major problem occurred that our film was 3 minutes long when it can only be up to 2 minutes, we had to watch it over and over again to work out a easy way of taking some sections out to make the film opening the right length. Eventually we took the first section of the film out where me, Liam and Tom are all talking, as this was the longest section of the film and also it wasn’t really necessarily important to the film. Therefore this means that Liam and tom do not perform in our film, hopefully this will not effect their grades. Today we also took a microphone and a mp3 recorder to main school and recorded the school bell going off to use at the end of our opening which symbolises a normal school day.
