The time had come to start some serious filming. The cast were at Ashley (Olu)'s house, the whole of RLNC were present, the props were ready but where was the screenplay and storyboard? I had left it at home. Luckily, I 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? Leaving my team to improvise and set up, I ran home to collect our Filming Folder including the necessary paperwork and a few treats for our cast. I ran back to the park to see my team 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
Own Comment: Again we were pleased with what we had done that session, we managed to get soo much done and only had two scenes to film. Although my mother had given me money to treat the team to lunch :), however that plan failed because we had over 5 unexpected guests, Ashley's (Olu) house was like a mini festival and I was not ready to feed 5thousand Lool, so that plan failed. Instead I treated myself and Jermaine (Toba) to some snacks from Tesco Express around our area, Yummy!
On the whole the session was a BLAST :)!
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