Filming Diary

27/01/2014

Today is our first filming day, we arrived at our shooting location at 9:30 and began filming at 10:30 after setting up vital elements for our social realist trailer. This involved creating a Facebook account for our female protagonist, Faith Brookes, and altering the appearance of a bedroom to make it look more feminine. We were then able to film the first few bedroom scenes with our amateur actress Naomi Porter.
Our next port of call was to create and film the breakfast scene; Jack Breckell, the art director contributed most to the set up of the scene demonstrating his role. Alongside this, within the group we all had an opportunity to film various pieces.
Today we also managed to achieve the scene of our amature actor, Jed Koonin, receiving the text correlating to the plot line.
Today's filming was completed by 14:00.

03/02/2014

After reflecting on what we had filmed the week before we went back to the same shooting location at the same time of 9:30, this time we were off to a more abrupt start because we did not need to prepare a Facebook page or any other scene in particular. We began by filming the scene involving the actual incident that is responsible for our social realist film, the set-up of an intimate picture being sent from character to character. For this scene we experimented with a fish-eye camera lens, this was to convey the personal thoughts of this character of what she see's in the mirror, however this was not as successful as we had hoped. The cinematographer explored different shot types including close-ups and mid shots.
Another scene we achieved today was our character, portrayed again by Naomi Porter, leaving her home and listening to music. This has proved to be the most challenging shot yet because we had to deal with avoiding the crews shadows in the shots and consider the wind (for this scene, the sound was not an issue with the wind because we plan to use a soundtrack throughout the trailer) for elements such as the actress' hair blowing across her face etc.
Today's filming was completed by 13:00.

13/02/2014

We decided we needed more variation of shots, outside of a house. Therefore, we stayed in school to film more shots involving the ex-boyfriend character. Our idea was to get a shot of a dispute in the corridor just between the main female and male, therefore in keeping with the social realist genre. After shooting a couple of these scenes we wanted to experiment by involving another character; a male peer from school who would walk past looking disgusted at the girl. This portrayed how the female protagonist was being treated around school and also showed that she had now been further excluded from social interaction.

3/03/2014

Today we continued filming at our original location in the house so that we could achieve the intimate scene how we wanted it to look because up until this point we were disappointed with the shots when we came to edit them. The lack of a flash resulted in the audience being confused that this was the main focus/ subject matter of the film because it was unclear that our character was taking a private photo of herself.

We began filming at 10am and finished at 2pm.

-Lauren Abbott