the filming, part III

Faraz, Nora, Andre and I met up at Pendeford school on Tuesday to get the final bit of our filming done.
We've planned to film the scene in which Nora and Andre bump into each other and therefore used one of the corridors in school. Due to the fact that we used a tripod this time we were able to film everything in quite a short amount of time and again we tried out different camera shots and angles.
We then used the staircase where we filmed Andre trying to give Nora back the diary but she runs down the stairs too fast for him to catch her.
Since we filmed on a normal school day, we had some students walking through the camera shots which makes it look even more authentic.

We also had the idea of putting a voiceover over our film in the form of Nora's voice telling her story.

the storyboard

During the last couple of weeks, we went through a process of changing and rechanging our film opening in terms of the story, script and shots.
The storyboard above was made by Nora and shows our final storyline. Our main idea was to kind of switch between the scenes during the two minutes of film opening: The first sequence shows Nora putting her make-up on (1), we then have the scene in which she drops her diary by bumping into Andre (2), and we then switch back to where Nora gets ready (3).
(We replaced the idea of Nora losing her diary on the bus with the idea of her dropping it by running in Andre because we considered filming on the bus as too difficult.)
In sequence 4 we can see Andre in the library despairing of the diary that he struggles to translate (4), followed by another sequence of Nora in the bathroom (5).
Sequence 6 shows Andre leaving school after everyone else has already gone (he forgot the time over translating the diary)(6); we then see the final bathroom sequence in which Nora kisses the mirror (7) and the title "Lost & Found" appears next to her lip print (8).

We had a discussion about the title of the film at pretty much the end of our filming process and finally came up with "Lost & Found". We thought that the title might fit quite well because the main character not only "lost" her diary, she also "found" a friend or maybe even a boyfriend by losing it.

the filming, part II

After we have had a look at our filming work from that Saturday in the following media lesson, we noticed that we would hardly be able to use the footage as it turned out to be too shaky. We then decided to refilm the scenes and met up at the Northwood school on Wednesday to get the library scene done during our free periods.

On Saturday, Nora and I again met up at her house and refilmed the scene in which she gets ready. We therefore used a shot that only shows parts of her face (such as eyes and mouth)in a mirror to make sure the viewer doesn't get to see her whole face.

the filming

We finally started our filming. Therefore Faraz, Nora, Andre and I met up in town last Saturday to film the scene of Andre sitting in the library trying to translate the diary.
We tried out different camera shots such as close-ups and over-shoulder-shots; it all went well, apart from the fact that we forgot to bring a tripod which would have made the filming much easier.
We then went to Nora's house in Codsall where we planned to film the bus scene, but since it had started to rain we cancelled our plans and instead filmed the scene in which Nora gets ready, puts her make up on and leaves the house.