11/02/10

Today we had our first filming session ever and really it was almost enough to put you of filming for life, okay so I’m exaggerating but still it was very frustrating. We chose to film in a corridor within the school that holds a number of lockers, because it is an easy location to get to and for the first filming session a perfect place to start (or so we thought). We filmed the last scene where Lily (Elly) walks to her locker, opens it and finds that her books fall out. We decided to include this scene in order to foreshadow the unfortunate events that happen to Lily later in the film and also to introduce the other main characters for the first time. We had originally planned to film this scene after school, however it seemed easier for us to film during our lesson time. That was a mistake! Because we were filming during lesson time we assumed the corridor would be relatively empty and that there would be few interruptions. Unfortunately we were very wrong. We encountered a number of problems, including:
• A lot of people kept walking through the shots, so we had to start again several times.
• Another group of people interrupted halfway through by filming in the same corridor (causing our stress levels to rise considerable) which cut our time short, but not by a substantial amount as they left soon after.
We overcame these problems well enough and managed to film most of what we had planned to before our lesson ended.