Overall filming process.

The majority of the filming process took place over two hours during school. This was so as to use fellow pupils as actors in the piece. Much of what they did was improvised, such as one pushing another off the tree stump, which was particularly annoying, as I was not expecting to film it, and I missed the actual push, without having the time to re-shoot. I do wish to include this, as is it perfect to demonstrate teenage behaviour, so I may need to do something to tidy this up in the editing process. There were certain issues with continuity, as pedestrians frequently would cross in front of the camera due to this being filmed in a public place. A simple problem, but still and annoying one, meaning I needed to film certain shots several times. Another issue was that some shots were more shaky than I was pleased with. For most shots I used my tripod, to keep the camera static, but to create pans, tracking and follow shots I needed to pic up the camera. This annoyed me to no end, but however I had no other equipment of use to me, so I will use effects in the editing process to hopefully make this less noticeable I did make the actors run for most of the filming, in order to use many angles for a fast pace running scene, much to the annoyance of the actors, but they seemed more than happy to comply.

However, in that time I ran out of things to film, as the things I’d planned to film in my storyboard, such as short clips of football, we couldn’t film (due to not having a football) and I couldn’t hold enough interest with what I have written. It was here that I decided to include performance. This I filmed in an evening in my house. This allowed a much more relaxing filming process, as the only time constraint I had was of the lack of light at night. I could not include a full band, as the people I had approached were not available on that evening, and that was the only one available. Filming myself was fairly simple with the use of a tripod, and I used a nearby speaker to play the music for me to mime to. The only issue was that I did not know how to play the music, but I improvised as best as possible, to make it seem I was playing the correct note, which I will edit to the music in the editing process.