The filming process

On Friday 20th of January we started to film out film opening. We had to sign out of the school in order to get Reece's dog 'Charley'. We went thought the back entrance of the school so we didn't have the dog walking through the school because we wasn't allowed as it said in the email that Bret sent to the head of business and finance.


We went down the back of the Science block in Sir Harry Smith School, we had to check with the science technicians just to make sure we was actually allowed to film down there. The filming was going alright until at one point we had the children from P.E running outside from the class changeover and making a bit of noise but we managed to re-film that scene and get all of the filming done in the double lesson that we had without many interruptions. 


Although Yasmin wasn't here to film i think it went quite well. We had to re-film some of the scenes because of school children talking and we also had to re-film some of the scenes that involved Charley because she sometimes didn't want to walk up and down the muddy path and she sometimes got distracted and started to follow one of us. We had to stop and restart the filming process which took a bit of time but it wasnt that bad..


We painted Reece's face with face paint which we got from the drama department. We put blue, red, and black paint around his eyes to make it look like he was cold, bleeding and the black to give emphasis around his eyes and the yellow on his cheeks to make it look like he was ill and dead. 


We filmed scenes using the 180 degree rule where I was walking Charley we did this becuase we didn't want the audience to see inside the classes near the Science block, match on action also where i am walking down the path with Charley we did this so the audience could get a better understanding of what was going on, a close up shot of when I screamed so the camera could fade to black quickly to show the title of the film dramatically, mid shots of when i stopped walking and turned when I heard a rustling and a two shot where I walked past Reece who was standing in the background. 


It was a quick process and we enjoyed filming it.