Today I filmed the inside school scenes. I put my framing lesson into practice in the shot where the girl gets bullied by people throwing paper at her. I had five people in this shot including the girl. I sat three people behind the girl and another person sat next to the girl. The person sat next to the girl wasn't really in the frame, but it gave the impression that it was a full class by showing part of the persons arm in the shot. One of the bullies had her bag on the seat next to her signifying that she didn't like people to sit next to her. When panning upwards I had to make sure that I got the girl and the bullies behind her in the shot at the same time. At first I tried panning up to show the bullies and then pan back down to see the girls reaction, however in the time I had to do this in, it was difficult. Therefore I decided to just pan up and then see the bullies throw the paper at the girl.
When the girl came up the stairs, I couldn't continue with the repetition of the girl always walking from left to right on the screen. The stair way that we were using was the only one in the block that had the right amount of lighting, the one I wanted to use originally was too dark. In the short amount of time we had left, I had to make do with what I've got. So instead I had the girl walk up the stairs and then pan, trying to keep her in centre frame which was challenging. I may have to shoot this scene again if I'm not fully satisfied with it when editing. This will be re filmed on Wednesday morning, if I have to re film it.
At first when the girl was walking down the corridor, I could only see the wall behind her, therefore I repositioned the camera so that it showed a display board of school work so that the audience defiantly know that she was in school.
Some of the shot were hard to follow on both days of filming as I had judged the timing poorly and needed more time to film the shot. This results in either having to cut out some shots and include the longer shots, or seeing what the shots look like in their planned time and working with it whilst editing.
From this film shooting, I have learnt that I need to be specific about what I want the actors to do, and to not be afraid to tell them what to do, even if they aren't in the correct positioning that I wanted them in.
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