Filming Process

Overall, our filming was successful. In order for us to make it successful, we had to follow The Brief which consisted of "a character opens a door, walks across a room, sits down opposite another character and exchanges two sentences." As well as this, before we started filming we had to take under consideration the location, props and actors, which was something we learnt through the lessons before hand as the mise-en-scence is extremely important to empahsis the importance of your filming. For our narrative, the anger we were trying to portray needed a simple yet dull location, to empahasis the seriousness. As we only had one lesson so we were fairly limited in who was availaible to be in our narrative and where we were going to film, we decideded to film on the top of A block, using one of the classrooms. We thought this was the best area out of all of the school as the corrider in which we used is plain and simple, and so is the classroom. As we have learnt from this before, we tried our hardest to get any school like things from the background out of each shot such as boards etc. The lighting and background needed to emphasis the anger throughout our narrative. Aswell as this, the dialogue the characters exhanged worked extremely well, as the emphasis and anger was there throughout. For each shot we were able to deliver what we needed too, for instance the shot types and the emotion the character was experiencing. The filming techniques such as match on action and shot/reverse shot helped make the filming process effective in what we were trying to portray to the audience. The previous lessons where we learnt this was therefore very usefull.
I think that we matched the brief well, in order for us to show our first character opening a door we used match-on-action to portray the ongoing energy, this also showing the useful effect this technique has, to show the character walking across a room we used a long shot with moving subject walks into space this easily showing the audience the importance of the certain shot's. To show the characters sitting down opposite eachother and exchanging dialogue we used varied techniques consisting of the match-on-action technique, long shots,  mediam shots, close ups and extreme close ups, this all enablying the audience to get the true meaning of our narrative and to fit the brief precisely, which i feel we did with our own interpretation on it.

Our characters being Luke and Sally were very good at portraying the emotion needed, this then therefore helped us concentrate on the shots in greater detail. However, although we tried our best to make the location suitable for our narrative by removing or avaoiding anything school like in the background, this was not always possible therefore the emotion we were trying to create wasen't always what we wanted due to the mese-en-scence. This suggests that for future filming with more avaibile time the location needs to be thought out and planned to a better standard. From going over the different shot types and learning new techniques needed to make shots more effective, i definitely now feel far more confident in applying my knowledge for my courcework.