Filming

To begin with in this lesson after getting to our location Dougie and Myself helped to move things around a little to make the camera shots better, stephanie and Jame bought in their own cameras, both were used. Me ans Stephanie decided to do the filming.. However Stephanie did do most of the camera work itself, although i did help to guide and ensure that every angle was accessible a long with holding the light of the other camera when it was needed. James was an actor who played the hostage, and Dougie was the other actor who was the one holding James hostage. Both played their roles well, and Dougie also helped to hold the camera from a high angle in order to get the sense of a CCTV camera when it was needed. i ensured that feedback was given by myself, which meant going through parts of the clip a few times before getting the best results.
We did come across a few drawbacks, such as a teacher telling us we were unable to use the store cuboard and that it was meant to have been locked meaning there was meant to be no access to it for us in the first place, however after talking through it we managed to keep our chosen location for that 2 hour lesson of filming, meaning that we had to ensure that it was all done in time, howevere after working well as a group.. we managed to do so. We also had troubles when it came to the safety especially of James, for example the idea that he had a black sack on his head tied with string as well as his wrists, we just made sure that nothing was tied to tight, but just looks as though it is, this meant that it was easy for James to pull of the bag when it was needed to within the clip, and we also made sure that there were holes within the bag so that he was able to see and breathe. Another problem we had was the fact that none of us had used the particular fake blood before and therefore did not know whether or not its stained, we managed to get over this by testing it beforehand, meaning that we were able to find out that it did not and therefore was used successfully.