Filming - Thursday 3rd December 2009

Today we were due to film four scenes from our teaser trailer, the 'Bike Scene', 'Lunch Box Scene', 'Corridoor Scene' and 'Fall Scene'.

The first was cancelled due to the poor weather meaning we couldn't film outside, and the second scene was cancelled due to not having the right props, we did not have a childrens lunch box, a water gun or a bananna. Instead we chose to film other scenes which required 'extras' in order to make the most of the time.

From 12:20-13:20 we filmed a scene where Valentine encounters a 'broken' door and two establishing shots which both required extras. The first one featuring students working through a window which was filmed as planned, for which we used other sixth form students to act for us. For the second shot featuring students walking out of a lesson, we changed the angle of the camera from a long-shot to a low-angle long-shot for greater effect.

From 15:15-16:00 we first filmed the a scene where Valentine is running down a coridoor with the lights flashing on and off. About 3 or 4 takes were done due to various errors, mostly due to objects falling out my pockets! Then we filmed a scene where Valentine walks along before falling over. This was done in 2 or 3 takes, excluding a few dummy runs in order to find out where the dialogue needed to be delivered and where I had to fall. This was critical because we were using a tracking shot and the section of coridoor which, although was wide enough to be able to film the mid-shot, was very short so the line had to be delivered before we ran out of corridoor.

Some out-takes from todays shoot will be available tomorrow.

R.K.