Filming: Day 1

Today was our first day of filming. As a group we wanted to film as much as we could, especially because it was quite hard getting our main actress (Tegan) to come into school an act for us during our specific time schedules. I can definitely say that it was a very productive and successful day. Our day started of shooting the classroom scene*.

*Classroom scene: Hannah (Tegan Little) surrounded by her fellow class mates and a teacher (Mr.Unterhaulter) attempting to teach the misbehaving students.

Mergime and Louise decided to take it in turns to film this scene and we made sure we captured as many shots as possible so that when it came to editing we could then see which shot was best. We were able to capture a variety of shots including: Shot reverse shot, Match on action and an establishing shot. Once this scene was complete, we decided to film the 'friends confrontation' scene*.

*Friends confrontation scene: Two of Hannah' friends confront and question her about why she acts so strange.

This particular scene was quite simple to film but it involved steady camera work as we used a pan shot to film Hannah run out of the room. I think that this scene was overall very successful and I hope that when it comes to editing, we will be able to make it an effective scene in our media product.

Our final scene that we filmed was the 'night scene'*

*Night Scene: Hannah running away from police and her problems.

Me and Louise filmed the night scene together and found it very interesting. We used our storyboards to help us with the shots we used (Long shot, Birds eye shot etc). The only issue we had was the lighting - it was too dark and not all was visible in the shot. We decided that we would try and fix this issue when we started to edit and if it didn't work we would re-shot the scene.