Analysis Of Film Session Two

Monday 15th February 2010
11am

The time had come to start some serious filming. The cast were at Ashley's (Olu)'s house, the whole of RLNC were present, the props were ready but where was the screenplay and storyboard? Lydia had left it at home. Luckily, she only lived 3 minutes away from the park. RLNC, Jermaine (Toba) and Alicia (Juliet) and a few extras walked to the park leaving Shaniqua (Christina) and Ashley (Olu) home to get ready for filming later on.We arrived at the park and as it was quite early in the morning, there were not as many children in the background as our last filming session..What would we do? Lydia then left us to improvise and set up as she ran home to collect our Filming Folder including the necessary paperwork and a few treats for our cast. By the time Lydia came back to the park we were fully set up with our extras in the background posing as children.From our last filming, we realised that again framing was a problem and often the tops of heads were cut off. To ensure that this did not occur again, we did practice shots with the movement to get our camera in the exact correct place where body parts would not be chopped off unnecesarily.

We then began to film.Surprisingly, we managed to get through filming a lot quicker minus a few distractions (hunger) probably as we were now "professionals" with the camera. Following the storyboard, we did point of view shots, close ups, mid shots. Definitely a good range.We switched off the camera when it was not in use so managed to do our running shots which went well although our cast did get quite tired running back and forth in the same spot. Finally we had finished our outdoor shots so we walked back to the house.It was now time to use Ashley (Olu), we filmed a scene of which Alicia ran through a crowd of girls and barged into Ashley's house, Jermaine soon followed and punched Ashley to the ground. Although the punching scene was especially humerous, we managed to get the filming for this short part done quite quickly. We used our fake blood to zoom in on the unconscious state of Ashley.Filming inside was difficult as the lighting was not as good as natural sunlight. We managed to film the running up the stairs and barging through the door. Filming from the bedroom was challenging as the room was cluttered and finding space to film was almost impossible. We experimented with handheld shots for birds eye view shots and a close up of Alicia's incoming phone call.The majority of filming was now complete but unfortunately the camera battery was low and the charger was no longer working. We could not film anymore. All that was now left to film was the fighting scene and the washing of hands. It had been a long day but worth the hardwork.We left the house around 6pm pleased with what we had achieved. :) Wooop Go RLNC

In this filming session i filmed some of the park scene when Alicia (juliet)and Jermaine(Toba) were conversing. I didn't find this to be a problem as i had done it before in our previous filming session i just had to film good steady shots. I also was and extra in the scene where Alicia and Jermaine run through a group of girls when runnig to Ashley's house. I also helped to film the bedroom scene. I then did a zoom on th mobile phone ringing but due to the bad quality of the cameras focus was lost and the shot became fuzzy. Overall this was a good filming session it was very stressful and took longer than it should have but we managed to get better quality shots.