On 26th November we asked Miranda to come into school and film her first scene which is when she finds the sketch book. As we were using the schools store cupboard it became extra tricky to plan out this shoot.
For example, we needed permission from the caretaker to use the cupboard and we also needed to choose a day to film when he too was available so that he could unlock the room for us and supervise.
Before our actor arrived we had a lot of work to do, for the lighting we had initially decided to use lamps because we thought that it would be very dark in the room, however these over-exposed the shots and we decided that the natural lighting from outside the cupboard made the footage more realistic too.
We also had to risk asses the area and remove dangerous item such as ladders and buckets of water. We also had to make a clear and safe path down the middle of the room. Here is a picture of all the hazards we had to clear away:
Finally we created the mise-en-scene which included creating a shelf of dusty old books, the dust was created by sprinkling wholemeal flour over the top of the books and we also hung a photograph of the 'old head-mistress' on the door of the cupboard.
All this meant that once our actor had arrived we could begin filming right away.
This is a screen shot of the call sheet that Sam Duxbury created for the events of the evening.
I am really pleased with how well and smoothly this film shoot and I can't really think of any improvements that we could make because we were very organised with the pre and post preparation.
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