Post 8- Production Report

I thought that the film as a whole was pretty good. When it came to shooting the film, we all had to make sure if we were free at the time to shoot the film, this was quite an issue for the four of us plus the actor becasuse our 'Study Periods' did clash with the lessons we had however we did eventually find a time/day slot, which was on a thurday afternoon.

The whole film took an hour to shoot, we had to collecting all the camera equipment including tripod, camera itself and tape, we also had to get the props for film which consists of two chairs, the followings things that we had to do during the hour time space we had was filming all our scences the re-shoot again for the scences that we felt wasn't good enough and lastly packing up the equipment and props and returning it to the media department.
When we were shooting the scenes we did encounter a few issues such as: the time we done the filming was when a P.E. lesson was due to take place, so we had pupils walking in and out through the corridors which limited our time because everytime a person walked through we had to re-shoot the scene however we told the teachers not to send anyone through until we had finished shooting the film.
Also both of the actors did forget their lines at times but this wasn't much of a problem as we just had to remind them and then we just re-shot that scene.

When we watched back the film, it was actually quite good and I was very pleased with the result bearing in mind it was our first media project.
However we did encounter a few minour problems such as, the lighting it was quite an issue because the fire exit doors did not have any curtains so the sun light reflected on the floors which then gives a shadow of the crew and camera equipments so we had to be careful whilst shooting that scene. Another minor problem was when there was a noise/disruption coming from the P.E. lesson, however we did find out that the auditions are not completley silent so it was alright to have a little bit of sound in the background.

I personally thought that as a group we all worked well together and didn't encounter any major problems during filming, I thought that each member of the group contributed some good ideas that went towards the making of the 'x factor' film.