Filming Journal [Camera Woman] (Marian Hassan)

24th February:
We started filming in H block class room H115, the first scene we filmed was Faraz killing Gareth while he was sitting at one of the computers. We thought this would be simple but soon realised we would have to do many retakes because the way Gareth was reacting to be stabbed did not seem realistic at all. we also had to start again becase he did not sign into the computer so it would not look believable.
Another problem we encounterd was we did not realise how sensitive the sound was so any movement was picked up and we had to start again several times due to out cast members talking in the background.
We also filmed Taiwo & Prisca running away from Faraz out of the class and down the hall way and Prisca had to scream. This scene caused two major problems for us. One because the running scene kept going wrong, either they were too slow or too fast or they tripped over each over.
Two becuase we never knew that there were night classes going on and Prisca had to keep repeating her scream witch was very loud, this distracted the students and the lecturer came to confront us about it quite angrily, unfortunately Taiwo became irritated with the way she was telling us off and they got into an arguement but after expressing his feelings he apologised becuase she thought he was rude and we were told he could carry on as long as we did not make to much noise.

9th March:
We began filming inside again becuase after watching what we had previously recored and got feedback from other class members we decided that we were going to reflim the scene where Gareth was being stabbed by Faraz, this was becuse Garethg reaction to being stabbed was not very believable. This took a while to get right because Garteh fealt shy infront of the other cast members so we politely asked them to leave, and after that he either did not make noise on time or he didnt make noise at all.
We then added our next scene which was Faraz killing Iffrah, this went smoothly and took no time to get over and done with.
On this same day we were meant to get the outside scene with Prisca and Taiwo done but unfortunately Prisca left college without telling any of us so we could not get that out of the way.
So instead we filmed the outside car park scene of Akelah driving towards Faraz. This was very problematic seeing as it started to drissle just as we got outside but luckily it stopped and we were able to carry on. It took a while to get the camera in the same position as the car but we got there, and Akelah had to be very careful so that she did not accidentaly hit Faraz. That bit went fine. Soon after another group came outside also to film and they cast members got in the way of out shot, so we politely waited. In the end we looked over out film and the still got in our shot without us noticing so we had to cut out as shot of Faraz walking into the road.
Lastly we filmed Faraz falling to the ground to give the audience the idea he haad be knocked down by the car.

11th March:
It took a while to begin filming because we had to wait for it to get reasonably dark outside.
We started filming inside H block Faraz walking down the stairs. This was easiliy done in one take. We then began to film the outside scene where Prisca and Taiwo run from h block to the car park. This took mant shots and was quite difficult at times especially the panning scene because i was too fast at times. We also had issues with the automatic doors as they opended to slow.
Then Faraz did a point of view shot and that went very well. After that we did the scene we Prisca and Taiwo run behind a car then run across the road.
Finally we did the scene where Taiwo see's Faraz knocked down on the ground and goes over to check his pulse and suddenly Faraz opens his eyes and strangles him, this also took a while because Faraz could not see very well so he kept missing Taiwo's neck.

16th March:
I was not able to make it to the last day of filming because of too short notice from the director (Gareth Hawkes), and i had to pick up my neice, but Pianki took my position and that day went well apart from being able to see the director in the reflection of the mirror.

Personally I think our filming went better than i thought it would have and was quite enjoyable, we came across a few problems here and there but that made us better at our jobs.