Shooting on location: shoot 1

As arranged on the shooting schedule we went out on the set days and filmed. Our first shoot was the cafe scene. Like we said we were going to make our own set which is what we did with a grey board, some handmade paper signs and a table. After showing the stuff we filmed to some of our peers and our media teacher we could tell that they weren't too keen. It didn't look like a cafe scene and looked really unproffessional. I work in a cafe and after asking my boss for permission they let us film inside the cafe when it was quiet, the result was that the audience actually knew she was in a cafe and made it look a lot more proffessional. The left picture is the cafe set that we made, the second photo is a still from an actual cafe

The second shoot was the news reports. We used one of our friends from our media class and again used the grey board with a red sheet over it. The camera was also set to manual mode which made it all out of focus, our newsreported didn't look like a news reporter and the whole thing looked really poor. We then decided that we would use a green screen after finding a background we liked on live type. Our other media teacher also said that she would be our newsreporter. Overall it looked a million times better with a green screen and was really interesting to make. To learn how to do it we watched a tutorial on YouTube which was really helpful and we did it on final cut.

The left was our first attempt at a news report, its unfocused and looks nothing like a news report. The right picture is our second attempt using green screen.

The next shoot was at Sarah house for the kitchen scene. This again was all out of focus as we didn't realise that the camera was set on manual and on the preview screen showed it as in focus. We then had to go back and reshoot this to improve the quality.

The left photo is the first attempt and is out of focus. The right photo is the second attempt.