Evaluation of filming 2

On the Tuesday after halfterm, our group filmed the first part of our thriller in our lesson. We used an empty classroom that was near to our media classroom and we chose that classroom almost straightaway as the classroom had a layout that is helpful for our filming and the type of camera work we had planned to do. In order to minimise the colour that can be seen on the screen, we removed the displays of people's work off the wall so that there was as little colour as possible and Bronte put the displays back when we had finished filming, we also needed to move some of the tables and chairs so that they weren't visible in our footage.

The main problem that we had was that for our tracking shot we needed a dolly in order keep the camera very steady, however, the media department said they didn't know where one was so as an alternative we had to use a chair with wheels on and then placed the tripod onto the chair. We slowly and steadily moved the chair whilst holding onto the camera, however the first tim we done it the camera slowly tilted to one side which meant we didn't get a steady shot.

We felt quite organised as Jess remembered to bring in the 'Stalker board' that she had made and Bronte remembered the storyboard to follow. Lewis was suppose to bring in his suit, however he forgot to but somehow remembered his blazer...
Bronte emailed our teacher, Holly during the halfterm to ask to use the camera during our lesson, therefore Jess and I were organised for this part of the filming, to ensure that the filming went as effeciently as possible. Although we had planned everything well and we felt we were organised by having our ideas ready and bringing in the props some problems still occurred - as Tom was unaware of the ideas for this part, it was Bronte's role as director to direct and explain to the Tom what was happening as he filmed parts of it, however depsite our thorough planning and Bronte's control of the group, Tom had a mind of his own and decided to do his own thing which prolonged the filming process. As a result the filming took just under an hour and a half, which is one lesson worth.