Diary of filming...
On March 18th 2011 we were given our Canon XM2 DV camera and Libec Th650 DL-2 tripod. We started filming on Red nose day as we found it most appropriate to shoot the scenes we had to do in school as we had non-uniform day, this meant all characters starring in the film were already in costume. As we gathered all the students starring in the scene of the corridor we set up the camera and tripod. As I was starring in that scene my partner Abdou-nour had to be in charge of filming. We all positioned ourselves into place and had a quick run through of the scene before we recorded it. We kept checking our story board to make sure we where recording everything correctly. We repeated the scene several times as there was a lot of giggling. As we finally achieved filming the complete scene we then changed the positioning of the camera and again repeated the same act from a different angle. This was used for the editing of the film. After shooting that scene we decided to film another school scene as we still had enough time before the end of school. We had to find ourselves a class room that was empty we could film in. We found a class room which wasn’t entirely empty, but it was the close we were going to get to a full room, I politely asked the people inside if they would allow us to use the room for maximum of 40 minuets and they agreed as long as we cleaned everything up after us. We Abdou-nour and I seated all actors in there places we set up the camera and started filming straight away as we had no time to loose. We had to repeat the scene around 3 times to get it spot on, and after we were happy with the footage we had, we packed everything away, cleaned up our mess and thanked the teachers for allowing us to use there room.
By Duha El-souss
