The Filming Process

On Friday the 20th of January 2012 we went out to the back area of school and filmed our media Film opening. we first had to sign out at the college first, in order to go and collect Charley (Reece's dog). Once the dog had been put on its lead, we then walked back to the school and used the back entrance so we didn't have to go through the schools buildings.

We got to the area we was going to film in and began. the area is situated behind the science block so we was aware we may get interrupted. luckily we had no trouble from the students in this area. we also had to double check with the science technicians to make sure that we was still allowed to proceed with the filming in this place. once that  had been verified i needed to apply some makeup to Reece in order to make him look more scary and in role. we used face paints that had been given to us by the drama department to create the effects that we needed. We used Blues to give his face the appearance of being cold, Reds were used to show blood on his face and Yellow was used also to make his complexion look pale and washed out. We also used black to define his eyes to make them see a lot bolder than they were before, the stage makeup was applied. the picture above shows how scary he has become by the makeup we have applied.

When we began to film in the rain which we all felt gave the film opening a little extra spook to it. we filmed scenes with the 180 degree rule and to ensure that the audience didn't see the forth wall. we also used the match on action rule because we wanted to make sure that the film flowed as well as it could. Some shots we found didn't fit properly so we cut them down when we edited the film together.

we had to re-film some of the shots and angles as at one point of the opening, the PE students came outside and started to make noise. We had to set up the scene again to make sure that none of the noise was captured in the background. We also had to re-film some shots that involved Charley as she sometimes wondered off course or got distracted by one of us. when we got the shots that we needed, we was really happy with it and happy that Charley was as disciplined as she was. 

Even with the absence of Yasmin, we skill managed to do everything we wanted without her. i think that the filming was even better than what we all first thought it would be. The overall filming process went really well and we didn't have many disruptions. We completed all of the above in 2 lessons (which is about an hour and 40 mins) that was a massive achievement for us as we didn't think that we could do it.