Filming

Filming we followed our planning sheet very closely with all the different camera angles and shots leading up to the final piece. We had to change the end because someone in our group didn't bring in a prop gun. We started in a classroom, which would be the opening of our clip with an OTS (Over The Shoulder) shot on to someone’s phone. We wanted it to be as if looking at teenagers phone so he was playing a game and then receive a text. This took many attempts because we wanted to be as quiet as possible so took many retries.


Match-on-Action


Then we went on to try and master the match on action that we knew could be difficult to perfect. Hugo was not acting naturally by walking slowly and differently to how he does usually so I told him to just pretend he was opening a door and ignore the camera. The next part of the match on action was down a corridor however, other people were filming so we decided to miss the long shot and start filming the meeting, as that would be difficult for our group to act. Firstly we needed to get the character in the film there so further used a mixture of high angles and POV (point of view) to get him from A to B in the quickest amount of time as we didn’t want to bore the audience with him walking.

180 Degree Rule

When filming the meeting we used the 180⁰ method which included a shot reverse shot of the conversation. We filmed this outside, which meant a lot of background noise was picked up from the wind and birds so the speaking was very quiet. It was also difficult as everyone kept on moving different places meaning we had to try over and over again to get it right otherwise in the film people would teleport different places on the wall.

Action scene

After we completed the outside scene, we decided to get creative with the narrative to make an appropriate ending otherwise it would look stupid just ending on the deal. So we decided to create an action scene that we did not include in the plan. Mid shot was used to capture the escape and pursuit of actors and then pan to follow them through parkour scene. Then once reposition we practice who he would fall down. Then on filming we used a mid shot then high angle to capture the action and low angle of the dealer getting back the drugs illustrating the dealer’s ultimate superiority.

Knock out 

We found the idea of pretending to hit him really bad as we could not perfect the movement. Instead Kelechi used the camera like a fist so when we edited the footage will look like we knocked someone out.

Then we returned to complete the corridor shot which wouldn’t of taken as long but people kept on getting in the way so we ahead to redo the shots multiple times to make sure they were seamless.

What I would do Instead 

The camera we used was very poor quality meaning some of the shots could look better. My camera you can change the setting so if the setting was light I could decrease the ISO meaning less light enters the camera in-turn creating a darker shot which would help the film conform to the genre of an urban drama. Using my camera we could of also created a better quality as it is16 megapixels and can shoot a film at 1440-1080 pixels compared to the video cameras 720. It also included a light guard meaning shots won't be over exposed to the light getting a clearer image on what was a sunny day which made shooting difficult.

When filming be more aware of were the actors body was as we kept on chopping the top of his head off meaning we don’t get a true long shot. Also to not have people in the background especially people who are filming their own sequence. This would not be a problem on the real thing as we will be filming away fro each over but reflection can still show in our real thing.

Problems we encountered

People filming in the back ground of some of our shots and people being the positions were we want to film which means we have to move elsewhere or film elsewhere meaning the mise-en-scene might not match in different areas.

Bad acting meant the shots came out to look really awful and unprofessional meaning it took a while to get the right shots. To stop this to keep trying over and over again so that we can get the best out of the amount we re-tried.