Diaries of Shooting

Saskia Calliste

Friday 19th October 2012What we did?• We did a RECCE of the places we were going to shoot• Make-up trial run on Kelly

What went well?• We were able to settle quickly on those locations• The make-up came out really well on camera and video and

looked realistic

What could’ve been better?• The kitchen we wanted to use was too small so we had to cut

the kitchen out of our production due to hazardous reasons

Tuesday 25th October 2012

What did we do?• Me, Leanne and Tamara met at Weald College at 10:30am• We went to the green screen room and I did Leanne’s make up for the lip syncing

scenes which took 2 hours• We spent the rest of the day until 15:00pm practicing the lip syncing scenes and

shooting them until we had the right shots

What Went Well?• We managed to get the shots that we needed• The lip syncing was on point and no corrections needed to be made• The make- up looked good on camera and directions were understood

What could’ve been done better?• Positioning of the lighting could’ve been more accurate against the green screen• All members of the group could’ve been there

Sunday 4th November 2012 What did we do?• All of us met up at harrow hill at 11:00am• We shot the establishing character scenes• We attempted to shoot the attack scene• We took photos as well as videos for the RECCE

What Went Well?• We shot all we needed to • There was a lot of footage so we had plenty to choose from• All group members were there• We were able to adapt ideas which worked better than the originals• The morning sun looked good against the camera and the shots we needed for the artist

What could’ve gone better?• It started raining heavily • The traffic was not sympathetic to our needs• Acting skills were not great at first• Shooting the attack scene was not effective nor practical in the setting we had planned• Badly lit alley way• Disruption in some of the shots

Wednesday 14th November 2012

What We Did?• We took pictures of Kelly to corporate in the missing posters that we made• We shot Tamara’s house scenes and her before and after reactions to the attack• The Preston pub scenes of establishing mine and Kelly’s friendship • Mine and Tamara’s scenes in Harrow of posting up missing posters and arguing over

Kelly being missing

What went well?• Well organised• We got a lot done in that day and did not feel the need for a reshoot• All of us were there• We worked well together and everyone co-operated and input ideas when necessary

What could’ve been better?• Today was a good day and I don’ t think that anything could’ve gone better

Friday 16th November 2012

What did we do?• We met up at 12.00 noon at Harrow Bus Station • We went to Borehamwood to Kelly’s House to shoot her characters decline What went well?• We got a lot of footage and a variety of shots • The costumes and props were appropriate to the characters new persona

What could’ve gone better?• We had to keep adjusting the lights throughout the footage• A lot of takes had to be done in certain scenes as it kept getting wrongly

interpreted

Wednesday 21st November 2012

What we did?• We shot in the drama studio Kelly’s reactions to her attack in a different

way to what we originally planned

What went well?• We managed to create better effects than what we had anticipated• Facial expressions were more emotive than previous scenes• Camera angles and shadow effect gave greater depth to the shots

meaning

What could’ve been better?• One of our group members left the course and a lot of the work went

with her so we had to trace it down

Friday 25th January 2013

What we did?• Took pictures of our artist for the Digipak• Performed an interview • Performed a preview for the artists new song and recorded back stage footage as well as took

pictures• Staged photo shoots for contents of the Digipak • Looked over photos and finalised them for the main product• Edited using photo shop the cover of the album the poster and the back cover

What went well?• We managed to get through everything really quickly• We were well organised and used our time productively • The photos came out well • We were able to pick up using Photo Shop fairly quickly

What could’ve been better?• More focused at times• All members could’ve been there• Time in the editing suite to get started