Shoot day 1

To depict the narrative of the girlfriend character being in the mean, popular girl group who are shunning Jay as he isn't popular, we planned to film them in school by the lockers. We told our actors where and when to meet a few days before, and so we were organised in advance instead of having to organise it on the day. The animatic helped as it meant that we knew what we wanted to show in the shots and we also knew how much footage we needed to film. However, we could have thought about the different shots we wanted to film beforehand as we could have had a wider range of shots, and we found ourselves deciding what shots we wanted to film while we were filming, The filming, therefore, became slightly disorganised. Although we managed the actors well, we found that when acting the specific scenes their acting didn't seem as good as previously and became a bit stale. The location also formed a problem since we were filming in school at lunchtime, since this was when the actors were available. This meant that there were students roaming the corridors and wanting to pass us while we were filming which would get in the way and interfere with the shot. We overcame this by asking politely if they would wait till we finished filming a specific shot, and then they could pass, where we would continue filming afterwards. Unfortunately we couldn't stop all interruptions as people would also come from the other side of the corridor and therefore it would already be too late and they would be in shot. We managed our time well as we were able to film the scenes all at lunch, although this made us feel slightly rushed. Additionally, we worked well as a group as we would take turns with the camera, telling the actors what to do and we would come up with decisions of what to film once we all agreed. Personally, I was in control of the camera for some of the shoot and I gave my ideas for camera angles that we could film from. I also played an important role in preventing passers by from entering the shots.