Production Diary- ‘Late For College’- Entry- 28/01/19

On Monday 28th January, our group starting filming our “Late For College Scenario”.
We decided to film all of the college-based scenes before the bedroom scenes as this made the most sense and was the easiest to do.
After finishing off some pre-production work, we left college and walked to an area in which we could film the actor running down a street, we chose a quiet street which was easy to film on as there were no cars passing and not a lot of background noise. We gathered multiple shots of this certain sequence, we had a scene of the actor running towards the camera, almost creating a contra-zoom effect, a shot of her running past the camera and panned so that we captured her side profile and we had a shot from behind her, running away of the camera. We believe that this would allow the sequence to flow smoother.
After this, we walked back to the college and started filming the scenes of the actor running towards the college gates. In the first set of these shots we had the actor run towards a locked gate, turn around and run towards an open gate. We got multiple angles of this as well.
Then we filmed her running into college and through to the media department. We had a shot of her go through the doors and a shot of her entering the building, going through to the stairs. We then filmed some shots of her going up the stairs. While doing this we decided that it would be best to record some Foley sounds such as her walking/ tripping up the stairs, as this reduced echo sounds.
After this, we decided to go back to my house as we couldn’t film the last scene due to no classrooms being empty to film in. Once we arrived at my house we filmed the scenes of the actor walking into the kitchen to heap breakfast, first. We also recorded Foley sounds of her biting into an apple during these scenes. After this we went up to my room to record the shots of her waking up and realising what time it was, getting out of bed and getting all of her things together, we then film some bathroom scenes of her brushing her teeth. During this we recorded Foley sounds of her brushing her teeth in addition to some water sounds.
We then recorded the last scenes of her getting all of her things together such as her coat, shoes and college lanyard and then leaving the house and walking towards the bus stop. During this, we once again recorded more Foley sounds such her walking on the pebbles of the driveway, and just some outside ambience sounds.
This is when we finished filming and recording Foley for the day.