Today I arrived at College two hours early. On Tuesday's, we usually start college at 11:15 but we came in earlier because in my group, we called each other over the weekend to discuss when we could film but before we went home last Friday, we booked the camera for Tuesday 9:15, in the end when we contacted each other, we agreed to sticking to this time. The only problem I found out the day before I started filming was that one of the actors (My friend, Jason) who played as one of the bullies, could not make it to that time because that time clashes with his class. He does a public services course and has nothing to do with any media course. So we did a last minute re-cast. We got our classmate, Jonathon Ivall to take over Jason Watkin's role as one of the bullies. We may need to re-print some of the pre-production paperwork and change the names and contact details from Jason to Jonathon.
Today, we all gathered outside E21 to film for our advert. We went to Phil to collect our camera and tripod. We arrived at the vending machines in the hallway and decided to film the scenes of my character walking outside the college and on the way to the inside of the college where the vending machines are. This was because we wanted to wait for the place to die down because there were too many people walking through. After filming outside and through the hallways on the way to the vending machines, the problem we had was that a member of staff was at the vending machines refilling it with delicious, tasty items. We had to wait for about, if not, more than 5 minutes waiting for him to finish. We couldn't simply ask him to leave for a while, as we wanted to take our time filming this instead of rush it. So we simply sat at some high tables near the vending machines and waited patiently and gave ourselves a break...a KIT KAT BREAK! lolololol...wait, you know what, that wasn't funny. Forget I said that.
While we filmed at the vending machines, it was 10am and had 1 hour and 15 minutes until class started. But like I said, we took our time and didn't rush the advert. The only small problem we had was people walking past us, however, they were very respectful and either stood still and moved once we said they could or asked quietly if we can go. Although, it was a problem when people wanted to buy something from the vending machines. We just let them do it and wait until they were gone to start filming again. They thanked us for letting them use it quickly. I was expecting a bunch of immature people to walk past and mess up our work by shouting at the camera, standing in front of the camera on purpose etc. but everything there was fine.
After we finished filming, it was 10:50. So it took us an hour and a half to film something for 30 seconds. Although, it was worth it so we could do it perfectly, we returned the tripod to Phil and kept the camera on us for the afternoon lesson to upload the rushes on our computers. But when we had class in the afternoon. We converted our files to the right format so they can be imported into Adobe Premier or Windows Movie Maker. After watching though our rushes, we believed that the final scene we shot was not very good and decided to reshoot it. However, we had no tripod because we gave it back to Phil. Although we could of asked to use it again for a few minutes, I found it easier to borrow a classmates tripod, who weren't using it. I borrowed it from Jon Ivall (Who we asked to be in the advert at the last minute). Jonathon Ivall has been an excellent assistance in our work.
For homework, I have got to finish the initial aims and the journey document.
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