Shooting Schedule

During our lesson time at school Ms Barton our teacher for the Production part of the course allowed us to film which was extremely useful considering we have two, two hour slots with her which meant that we had the potential to film for four hours a fortnight. As a group we grabbed this opportunity by the horns and went out for two hours just to find the locations in the city. We also went out twice to film during these lessons. However this was not enough because we have several different locations so we decided to go out after school on random dates to film. So we ended up filming.

• 11.20am - 1.20pm on Mondays during our lessons.
• 4.00pm - as long as it takes monday, tuesday and occasionally wednesday evenings

By filming at the beginning of the week this enables us to edit our existing footage and identify early on whether their are any shots that could be improved or if some footage is just not good enough.

Before half term (26th October - 2nd November) we filmed a lot of footage on Friday 25th October, it was because of this that as a group we decided to push on with the editing and shooting throughout the holiday, so I inivited them both round on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th October. We had previously decided to edit our video using software that Tamas had () on his laptop instead of using the less advanced programme on the school computers, this enabled us to edit at my house over the holidays. We also shot a lot more footage in the village where I live on the 27th, to create an interesting mise-en-scene of the vibrant city life next to the river juxtaposed with the bleak, silence of Mulbarton graveyard.

The initial raw footage that we have filmed down Elm Hill has not turned out very well as we didnt film enough close-ups and extreme close ups which is hard to achieve when filming someone walking across cobbles. It is for these reasons that we have decided to refilm and not use much of this first shoots footage.

We have also had to film some extra dream/memory footage which we are going to film at Cringleford park on 9th November. this footage shouldnt take too long as we intend to just use the swings to get closeups and high angle shots etc.
Update: Unfortunately when we got to the park the swings had been removed a few days before hand and we had to improvise using the Carousel. However this footage has turned out really nice and is better than it would have been if we had used swings.