Filming Process

As a group we had to firstly see when the school theatre would be free to use to do our filming. If we were unable to get a free time to use the theatre then we would have had to change our setting for our film opening and could have resulted in a rushed production.

After we had found out that the theatre was only free wednesday morning, we decided that the best option was to do some of the filming after school as well to make sure we didn't rush any of it and spoil the production. We started our filming mid february, which can be seen on your shooting schedule, and have nearly completed all the filming. Before starting our filming we had to find a script to use which Daniel opted to find which he did very well, finding one from the film "Death of a Salesman". We then ran through the script to decide who was saying what and came to the conclusion that Daniel would film and me, Liam and Kendall would act.

While filming we all realised that our film was supposed to be set in the 1950's at first, then move back to the present day, the problem being that we were all wearing nowadays clothes and didn't have any 1950's clothes. We asked the drama teachers if we could borrow some clothes but we weren't allowed, so we had a dilema and had to come up with a solution. We thought that the best way to get around the problem was to change the idea of being in the 1950's to closer date of the 90's, 1998 to be specific. This way our clothes wouldn't look to out of proportion and as a result worked well. Also our idea of bringing the start of the film to 1998 ment the "up-to-date" style of the theatre wouldn't look out of place either.

When it came down to editing, again, we left the more technical stuff to Dan as he was in his element, but the rest of us gave our views and opinions and the film gelled well together. Also we needed to find music to fit into our film. We all searched the web looking for free copyright music and after a while found the perfect music. Again Dan edited the music into the film which he did brilliantly.

One thing that has occured, meaning we are going to have to re-film parts of the film, is the lighting. When editing, the lighting went funny and there wasn't anything we could do to change it, so the lack of continuity in the film means we are going to have to re-film parts of it. Because on the 26th and 27th of February there were school performance shows, the background in the theatre changed so it means we are going to have to hopefully find the right time to re-film when the background is back to the way we need it.