Last day of shooting

Yesterday after school we did our main performance shoot. As Mrs Thrasher suggested, Jazmin performed without a microphone and it looked much better. We also did some experimenting with Jazmin standing up and singing, leaning against the wall, sitting on the speakers etc. Like many people have suggested, we also shot lots and lots of close-ups. We ran through the song about 10 times (I think... maybe it was 11...) so there should be quite a lot to choose from.

After a discussion with Jake Wynne in Wednesday's lesson, we realised that maybe Jazmin's character didn't seem lacking in confidence enough, and instead seemed more indecisive. So, we discussed the possibility of having some shots of Ava reading self help books. We also did this yesterday, so that should convey the meaning we want it to...

Angelie

Weekend shoot!

This weekend we managed to shoot almost all the narrative footage we needed to with exception of Wonder Woman walking and her introductory shot.
We had fun doing it (lots of silly quotes on the white boards =]) and it didn't take as long as we expected it would do.
We've uploaded all of the footage and will be looking through to identify re-shoots that we need to do

Emma

Performance shoot on 18/09/08

Today we did some more shooting and overall it went quite well. We were a bit pushed for time, since Jazmin only had Periods 2 and 3 off, so had to be back by Period 4, but we worked hard and managed to get about 15-20 mins of footage (I think!). We did what Ms Blackborow suggested and took lots of MCUs, CUs etc. And we got Jazmin to be a bit more exaggerated with her performance, and since she takes direction really well, the footage we did get was quite good. So now tomorrow we just have to watch it back and capture it!

Angelie

Today's shoot (17/09/08)

This afternoon we had a performance shoot which went fairly well. Jazmin was really good at performing and she comes across really well on camera. We're doing some more shooting tomorrow and as Ms Blackborow has mentioned in her feedback post below, our main aim will be to get some shots of more exaggerated performance and also shoot some more tightly framed shots. Hopefully everything will go well!

Oh also, we'll probably upload some of our footage onto YouTube and then link it to the blog some time soon :)

Angelie