Filming Day 2

Today was our second day of filming and as we managed to do a lot of filming on the first day we only had the office shots and the hall/auditions shot left to do.

We started a bit later at 10:00 this time round and Mossy (our actor) met us at school. We started off by filming in one of our teachers offices where we had Mossy in a suit sitting at the desk acting very bored. We tried different shots, one from the corner of the room using the tripod so Mossy is centre of the shot and the office can be seen around him, we also used a birds eye shot which we did handheld and as far up as we could reach. The reason for the first shot was because we wanted the storyline to have Mossy walk around the table and push open the door in anger and frustration at his job and unfulfilling life so we wanted it to be smooth pan round the room. This was slightly difficult as the room was quite small so we filmed a pan where he walked round the desk in anger a few times and then also one shot of him getting up from the desk and then walking past the camera and another shot where he walks past the camera and kicks the door open.

We then filmed him throwing the papers down in another. This we had to film around 3 times to get the dramatic effect which we achieved by making the shot narrower and closer to the paper actually falling.

Moving on the hall shots, we filmed on the stage as we could then use the different types of lighting and because it gave more of a sense of an audition, which we were trying to achieve. We cleared the stage, set out a table and chairs and to make it more realistic got some mugs and paper so that our actors for our judges could have some props to use. We also decided to close the curtains so that there were no distractions in the back of the shots. We shot from the side of both the judges and singer as well as in front of both, as we were able to use the tripod and dolly in this case we had some fun trying out different shots like moving the camera up to mossy whilst he was performing and spinning the camera around whilst it focuses on the lights.