Shoot Day

To begin with our shoot day got off to a bad start, as a lot of our cast pulled out last minutes to prior commitments they had with school. And one of our shooters had to be changed last minute too. However, in the end it worked out well, and we still managed to have the right number of cast. Our story board then turned out to be more of a guideline to us, as a lot of the decisions were changed last minute. One of these changes was to film the whole film on 6 camera phones to portray the reality of the film, and to show the events from the casts point of view.. These cameras were filmed in 4 different groups of teenagers, where they had previously discussed in groups how to act normal and what to talk about. Therefore it was a joint effort as we all were able to film as well as direct our group. My role in the production was to look after my group, and talk through what we were trying to achieve. I also filmed one of the cameras upstairs in the cafeteria throughout the sequence. We chose to have our shooters in dark coloured clothing (dark green, black) to represent the darkness of their appearance and intentions. However, the we chose to keep the rest of the cast in normal day to day clothing to show the naturalness and stereotypical appearance of the teenagers. The shooters also filmed the shooting from there point of view holding a camera above the gun filming their journey around the cafeteria. We rehearsed the same scenes a few times until we got it correct, without blood, as we only had a short amount of time to film it in we could only film the whole sequence once with blood as it’s a hassle to clean up, and the cafeteria was to be used just after we were there. So there was no time for mistakes in our final take, we had to make sure it was perfect. After all the pressure, it turned out well and everything went to plan. We also filmed a clip of the shooters talking to their own camera in a small disabled toilet armed with guns and reading from a script explaining why there was this act of violence and their intentions. To show the cafeteria, busy and full and unrehearsed we decided to set up a camera in the corner of the cafeteria at lunch time with a full over view to film a normal day at lunch time. Overall, the day went well regardless of the hectic morning we got all the shots we needed.