Filming- Wednesday 23rd November 2011

On wednesday, we began filming the audition scenes of our film. Firstly, we had to set up the location before we even began filming. To do this, we asked for the use of the main hall so we could film. In the hall, there is black curtains behind and in front of the stage that are normally used for the school show in February so I thought this would be of great benefit with creating a location that looked like an audition room for a school show. We filmed our auditions with a black curtain at the back of the frame. We then used the lighting facilities in the school hall to create a spotlight effect so that the main person auditioning was the only focus and that the importance of the person in the centre of the frame was emphasised. To create the spotlight we made the room as dark as possible and then used a light unit that consisted of two spotlights a distance apart and shone these lights on the black curtain to create a spotlight effect. We could move these spotlights around, bringing them closer to the subject of the frame or further away to make the shot look as professional as possible. Me and my Andrea directed all audition scenes, we told them where to stand and how to perform. We also told them what songs to sing and how to sing it so that everything was done the way we wanted it to be done. We only managed to get one scene done today because it was a first filming session but I am really happy with how things turned out. The links to the two scenes we filmed are below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsmsiO-vLF0

                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuzOBeT93hA

PLANNING

Here is our planning for the first few filming sessions, I hope it all goes to plan! 










Week beginning the 21st November:
Characters:
Miranda - Geeky girl
Millie- popular girl
Greg- popular boy
Natalie- bad auditonee
Beth- young auditonee
Kieran- dancing audition, even though it's a singing competition




Scenes to be filmed
Wednesday 23rd November: filming the 5 auditions in the hall with a spotlight.
* Need to ask Miranda and Millie if they're free in one of our media lessons (preferably Tuesday period 4)
* Need to ask sixth formers who are willing to be in our film to take part in the scene where pupils move aside for the popular girl and where they make fun of the geeky girl and trip her up
* Need to speak to Greg and Miranda about bringing in their costumes
* SCRIPT for the teachers on the auditioning panel. Need to work out how the panel is going to react to each audtionee so that their reaction translates to the audience so they can gather who is good and who is not.
* Close-up of Miranda's face in her audition to establish her geeky character and enable this characterisation to translate over to the audience.






Week beginning the 28th November:
* Need to create a castlist that will be used on the last shot of the film when the two girls are walking up to it to see who has got the part and who has missed out- critical that the audience do not see the cast list as it is a teaser trailer and the end of the film must not be given away, creates a sense of mystery and will pursuade the audience to actually go out and watch the film after watching the teaser trailer.
* This week is deteremental in getting the sabotage scenes completed between Lucy and Miranda and this will be the funny side of the romantic comedy teaser trailer.