Production Log 7

This week me and Chanel begun to film our opening sequence in lesson time. We decided to start off filming in Chadwell Heath as it was the closet location at the time. Some key decisions we had to make before we started to film was where the best location in Chadwell Heath would fit BSR films the most. We decided to film right near some train tracks that looked very rough. We took a lot of time on these shots because they were hand held, some of the shots were very shaky so had to be re done, but to do it again we had to wait for another train, which is why it took a while. We also had to think of how many shots we could get done before we needed to go back into school, and weather we would spend another day filming around Chadwell Heath. We decided we didn't want to waste any time as we needed it to film for the other locations, so we done all the shots around Chadwell Heath and managed to finish just in time. We filmed shots on the bus, but we had to do these again as they didn't flow very nicely and we wanted them to be the best as possible so we wouldn't have to re film any shots later when we was editing.

Also this week, we filmed in our house location, where the character Adriana lives. Some key issues we had were to do with things like how are we going to layout the room to make it fit into the conventions of BSR films, and also the lighting. On this day it was quite bright outside, so some rooms looked lighter than others. We had to find ways to make the room darker,  To solve this we used towels to cover some windows that had no curtains,  and in the bedroom we only had to close the curtains a bit so this was easy. When filming we done a shot looking in to a mirror, and we could see the towels covering the window, which we thought looked good for the mise-en-scene as it makes them look trampy and very secretive like they didn't want people looking into the window. This shot was quite hard to do because we had to film at a certain angle so we couldn't see me or  the camera in it, and we had to get Chanel's hands and hair in the right place so the continuity flows well. But overall we done well as this day was the first day of filming.