Shoot Day

The planning for our shoot day was done prior to the actual date. Our shoot day started quite chaoticly as we had a change of cast from Guy Simpson to Alex Gray and not all of our cast members turned up even though they had agreed prior to the shoot day and therefore we had to brief a very large cast of what we expected them to do. Our storyboard turned out to be more of a guideline, as we ended up shooting the whole sequence on six camera phones from different points of view (victims and shooters). We set up three different groups of cast with members of our production team who would film the sequence as if we too were victims. Therefore it was a joint effort as we all were able to film as well as direct our group. The shooters also used camera phones to film their journey through the cafeteria making their way to each group of people, starting downstairs and then one shooter up the front stairs and one using the back stairs so when the thriller is finaly edited the audience will get to see a variety of perspectives. We then rehearsed the whole sequence a few times (without blood) as the whole thing was to be done in one shot where blood would be used because we were pushed for time to clean up the cafeteria, so there was no time for mistakes in our final take. Everything ran smoothly and we got the take we needed. I then also took two shots of the shooters preparing their guns and also their intentions. We also set up a camera at lunchtime to film a full cafeteria in fast track. After the slight panic of the morning the rest of the day ran smoothly, we worked well as a team and followed Matt's instruction and over all completed all the shots we needed.