Filming Progress

When planning my short film I thought that I had covered many of the problems that I was going to face, however once filming started there were even more things that I needed to think about. Although I did only have 4 girls and one boy acting my film finding times when everyone was free was hard, I used students which meant they often had other work to do or comminements which lead to filming talking a little longer to complete than I had thought it would. However they were taking part in my film as a favour to me so I was patient and planned in advance as much as I could, I also tried to take as little of their time up as possible.


Due to film during school time it meant that the hallways were never completely silent, this then caused some scenes to need to be re filmed as you could hear background noise. Although I have left a bit of background noise of lessons taking places because if the  scenes were completely silent it wouldn't get a realistic perception of what a school environment truly was. When filming after school teachers were often leaving for the day which meant that filming had to stop once again in order for them to be able to walk through the corridor. Due to people being in the surrounding areas of the film taking place my actors become slightly shy which meant that I had to wait for the people that stopped to watch what 
was occurring to leave. 

Scenes that I've filmed and changes that have taken place:

When creating my story board and planning out my scenes I knew that I wasn't going to stick to it exactly as when filming starts to progress there are things that you realise done make sense which means that it then needs to be changed in order to make sense.
From this part of my story board I have filmed the middle section of it, as the first part of it takes place in the woods which I am going to be filming at the weekend due to it not being on school grounds. The middle scene went pretty much as I planned however I didn't get the girls to get up and pack their bags up together as I had already filmed the next part of the scene where they don't have their bags with them. Once filming had finished I realised that I needed to have a transition shot from the girls being in the classroom to them then walking down the corridor which I am going to be adding in after. They also left their school bags in the classroom which then doesn't make it look strange as to why they don't have them in the next scene. I'm still going to be adding in a school bell as a transition between the two scenes to show the detention has finished and thats the reason they have left. 

Most of this scene stayed the same however due to being filmed in a corridor that is used a lot this scene was one of the longest to film. I also changed a lot of the camera angle being used as I didn't want to just have one shot of the girls walking towards the camera. I've also cut the scenes together so that they changed when the girls are having conversation with each other so they you can see the facial expressions that they have as the conversation changes. When Hannah Is talking about Megan and who she is with the camera angle is going to be from over Hannah's shoulder as this is what the girls are going to be able to see themselves, this also prevents any of the conversation that Hannah and Aaron are having to be heard. I then changed the camera angle to face the girls as Megan walks off to that you are watching them as she leaves. 

This was one of the very first scenes that I filmed which meant that it took longer than usual as I was still getting used to them camera angles that needed to be used and how high I needed to have the tri pod in order to be able to see everything that I wanted to be in scene. When filming Emily and Lilly talking I used point of view shots. I knew that this would take longer to edit so I asked them to leave a pause between each line that they were saying to allow me to be able to cut the scenes together without what they were saying over lapping which would make it sound abrupt and not smooth like they are having a conversation. I filmed all of the talking from one angle and then filmed it once again from the opposite angle which meant that they had to have the same convosation twice. I then got rid of the lesson scene as I wouldn't have been able to film Hannah during one of her lessons as once her lesson finished everyone else's would also finish which would lead to the corridors being to busy to film in. Im going to add in a transition scene off another school bell like I did previously or film a corridor when it is lesson change time to show that the school day has ended and thats why she is leaving school. 


This is the scene were Hannah and Megan start to have a discussion about the text messages that Hannah has been receiving, I was going to film this outside as Hannah was leaving school from the bottom gate however this would not have worked for many reasons, Due to the fact I was using the microphone on the camera it doesn't have the best sound quality which means that all the audience would have heard was the wind rather than the two girls having a conversation, the wind would also prevent the girls from being able to  concentrate on what they are doing as their hair would be blowing everywhere. However the one problem that did occur with the location that I did film this scene was the space was very empty which caused an echo in order to overcome this I might get rid of the audio on the scene and get the girls to do a voice over of what they have said. This would lead to the speech being as clear as possible however I will have to ensure that the words match with what the girls are going to be saying on the screen. Due to not filming the scene outside I also got rid of the transition scene of the car. Due to being a mystery and to make the film less predictable I decided to change the story line which caused the next few scenes to be different. 

Throughout this scene Aaron is meant to be following Hannah and he was the one that was meant to kill her, however I changed this and made Lilly follow Hannah which meant that she was the one that kills her. Hannah sends the two girls a text saying SOS... which is why Lilly is there looking over Hannah with no questions asked however she was the one following her into the woods the whole time. Due to Hannah having headphones in she is unaware of the fact that Lilly is following her. In order to make it clearer that Hannah has died I have included a brief scene into the film of Hannah on the floor. The shot then changes to the same one that was shown at the begging on the film.