The document summarizes the first day of filming for a school film project. It describes preparing costumes and makeup, filming flashback scenes which included a staged stabbing using fake blood and ketchup, and difficulties filming a scene at a playground with low battery life and unlearned script lines. The day ended with realizing more filming would be needed to improve camera shots and reduce dialogue.

1. DIARY OF A DAY OF
SHOOTING – DAY ONE
Monday 18th March 2013

2. PREPARING
Firstly, we got a lift from my mum to Rosie’s house to film the
flashback scenes. Once we arrived we had to wait for about 10
minutes for Rosie’s mum to finish hoovering. During this time I got
changed into my costume and then had my make-up done. Once I
was in costume Sam took some pictures and then filmed Rosie
applying my make-up so that I looked more fatigued.

3. ME IN COSTUME

4. ROSIE’S KITCHEN
Once the
hoovering
was finished
we stepped
into the
kitchen to
prepare for
filming.

5. SETTING UP FOR THE
FLASHBACK SCENES
First off we considered where to place the tripod and how we were
going to carry out the scene. We decided to not have short, quick
moments of stabbing or blood but to have a full scene of me
committing the actual murder. However we had very little fake blood
and it stained clothes and I really didn’t fancy spoiling my top. So the
mother was not actually shown on screen, instead I stabbed over the
camera – with a real knife… I was careful!

6. FIL M IN G THE FL A S HBA C K S
We had a few rehearsals without filming because it turned out we had low
battery. After the stabbing scene we decided to use the fake blood to
cover the knife and show a pool of blood. Originally we had ideas of just
having a pool of blood or a shot of blood squirting to the floor. In the
end we decided to have the knife covered in blood drop to the floor.
However we quickly run out of fake blood and had to use tomato
ketchup instead! Amateur I know but we plan on hiding this by making
the flashback scenes black & white so nobody notices.

7. DO WE CONTINUE?
Afterwards, we placed the camera on charge for a while to try and maximise
the battery power we could get whilst assessing whether or not to shoot the
playground scene today or wait until tomorrow because it was raining. We
weighed up the advantages and disadvantages of carrying on tomorrow. The
advantages were that we could have better weather as well as more battery life.
However the disadvantages were that we’d have to reapply the make-up, leave
school again, the weather could be worse, would have to be really careful in
terms of continuity etc. So we thought it was best we film it and get it out of
the way.

8. M OVIN G ON TO THE
PL AYG ROU N D S C E N E
My mum text me to say she had finished work and if we wanted a lift
she’d be willing to take us. So I rang her up and we packed up all our
stuff and got a lift to the playground on North Road, behind
Sainsbury’s. We setup our camera and tripod and planned what we
were doing. While Rosie and I considered my position as well as the
position of the camera, Sam took some photos of the playground.

9. THE PLAYGROUND
This is the playground
along North Road behind
Sainsbury’s.

10. FILMING
Once we had decided positioning we began filming. We started off
with an establishing shot with a pan. During this pan the camera
shows me without the mask and then when panning back shows me
in the mask. This would present the two personalities and make the
audience question what was going on. Then we moved on to filming
the conversation between the two personalities.

11. PROBLEMS
 I hadn’t learnt the script. So Rosie had to mouth my lines to me and
the camera picked up that I was trying to figure out what Rosie was
saying. Not only did this affect my acting and the believability but it
just wasn’t very good and we simply weren’t happy with it.
 So we decided to film me saying each individual line.
 However there was an issue with us all laughing after making a mistake
and the increasing bloopers containing bad language.

12. LOW BATTERY
This was when we realised how unprepared we were because our
battery life was running dangerously low! We hadn’t followed the Year
13’s advice like we should have and checked the battery. So we were
rushing to get through all the lines and managed to finish with just
ONE MINUTE of battery life remaining!!!

13. END OF THE DAY
We hoped that would be it for filming and we could move on to
editing and have the project finished. But when looking over the
footage we had taken we felt there was a lack of different camera
shots and angles and FAR TOO MUCH dialogue. So we had another
day of filming to look forward to.