Filming diary

15/12/2016:

Our original idea for our title scene was to have a full size classroom whiteboard which where we would write the titles and combine them with stop-motion animation. As you can see from this image, there were several problems with this method, the main one was the glare on the whiteboard. 

16/12/2016:

I did more taking pictures of the titles for the teaser trailer. This time I decided to do a "Meet the class" title which was supposed to be used for a classroom scene, but it was sadly cut out because not many students were available to come and help with the classroom. For this scene I decided to do bubble writing and shade in the letters instead because I thought it made the title stand out more. Their were some filming problems to this because the ink on the whiteboard pen would sometimes run out and that would mean I would need to get a new pen to use. Also, there were times I had to start writing the title again because if I would ruin out of ink from a current pen, I would have to get a different colour pen due to continuity.

19/12/2016:

I filmed the interview scene for the first time. The only difference to this interview scene was the actor was different, and instead of the questions appearing on the titles, the interviewer was speaking out loud, asking the questions to the protagonist. Filming went on well that day but the previous actors availability was not the best so I had to re cast him with a different guy.

10/01/2017:

I started to film my teaser trailer after coming back from the Christmas break. I decided to film scenes with a current 6th former and he portrayed an expelled student from the frictional college. Overall filming went well that day, and the takes were spot on and I did not need to do multiple takes for the actor.

12/01/2017:

I decided to re film the interview scene since I recast the actor who plays the teacher, the reason I resorted to this is because I did not want to have problems with continuity because it would not make sense if I was interviewing two teachers with the same name, and a majority of students are not available to come and be actors. I also shot a short scene of the teacher interacting with one student that day as well.

09/02/2017:

For today's filming, I decided to re-shoot the title writing scenes because their was problems with continuity, and the amount of ink I had to use for filming. Instead, I used a smaller whiteboard so I could have smaller hand-writing without worrying about running out of ink, and so we could have better lighting for the scene.

21/02/2017:

The final day of filming, this was a newly invented scene because the original scene was suppose to be the teacher in the classroom but not many students are available to film so I had to get a smaller amount of students to film one scene.  We shot a scene in the playground of Mr Gordon not having control of the students in the playground, and him taking bribes from students.