How the filming went - Bradley Mills

Day 1

On day one of filming we aranged to all meet at Burgess Hill train station but we did not set a definate time so this made getting everyone at the same place at the same time difficult, we used mobile phones to communicate with eachother but problems with that included Aditi awnsering her phone while the Will wouldnt, and when i finaly was able to get a hold of Will there were problems getting in touch with Aditi.

Re-shoot

 At about 1 oclock we finaly all met in Burges Hill with the equiptment and walked to the location to shoot the waking up and getting ready scenes, such as walking down the stairs, This shot was good but through the window it was dark so this broke continuity and we decided we would have to re shoot this on day 3 of filming when it was bright outside to connote morning.

We started with the alarm clock scene and I suggested to put the camera underneath the bed to show my hand coming down to switch off the alarm, we tried this shot in darkness and it looked like a good shot but it was too dark so we had to set up the lighting in order to create a natural look of low key light, we did this using a dark umbrella over our light source, this created the look we wanted so we kept the light the same for the follwoing shots.

The actor we wanted to use as our policeman was not avaliable on this day of shooting so we had to shoot all of the shots prior to the policeman sequence on this day, this meant we had to take a picture of what I was wearing on the day to make sure continuity was achieved. 





Day 2


Day 2 of filming we all decided to meet up after college in order to shoot the outdoors scenes such as the shoplifting sequence for this we had to use one of our group members to be in our film along side me as an accomplice to the shoplifting crime, because we decided that petty crimes such as these are usually committed as a part of a group due to peer pressure and subculture status.

Without added lighting

we used Portable LED lighting in order to increase the quality of the footage because the street lights aren't bright enough and produce a grainy effect as we found in our first day of filming.


In order to gain permission to shoot footage in the shop we went in and asked the manager.


We also shot some footage that we did not use on this day such as the disabled parking scene which was a shame to have to cut out because it looked really good especially the way i edited it, but we decided to remove the sequence because it did not fit in well with the rest of the movie.


Day 3
For the final day of filming we needed to fill in all of the main parts to our movie that we still hadn't shot, in particular the shots with the policeman and most of the 'crimes and flashback' shots in order for this all to take place i had to arrange for the policeman to come down to our filming location when we were all back from college, we set up the lighting and tried to replicate the settings from day 1 of shooting this included myself and the the rooms in the house.


We then had to relocate to the other side of town to meet up with the actors who would help with the crime sequence when it was dark, this provided problems though because we were on a limited time scale with our actors and the natural lighting was changing all the time, this meant i had to edit the footage in final cut to make the footage darker to match the sequence.


what I have learnt - From filming i have learnt that taking the easy and convenient route is never effective and if i was to reshoot this film i would like to take a key role in all the decisions, and that a film should meet the uses and gratifications theory or there is no point making it.