Production- Week 8

This week my partner and I have jumped head first into the heart of production and have been hard at work. We began developing all three of our texts at once by starting with our digipak and creating an abstract panel of words relating to our artist, this has been a much more time consuming process so we're very happy that we've begun work so early because if we started this later it could take up valuable time that we would require.

I also stayed back after school to film scenes in the hall with Robert which has taken off a large percentage of how much we now need to film. With the hall scenes now 75% finished this has taken a huge amount of our workload off and has put myself and my partner back into safer territory although we must stay on top. The hall is in constant use though which was the cause for our late filming and may also be a problem in the future so I must keep checking when it is free for future filming.

In addition to filming in the hall I've tried to make use of multiple forms of technology and used Roberts iphone4 to take multiple photos of him which will be used for our digipak and magazine ad. At first I was reluctant to use the iphone over an SLR camera but after researching the frame rate of the camera I was happy to give it a chance and I believe that this shows how the marketing for our artist is kept cheap to keep the budget low.

Our actress also came into school so I filmed the majority of all her scenes in the school with my partner which also reduced our filming load drastically. The shoot of this day was overall very easy and smooth however we did encounter some problems with the tracking shots of our actress through the hallways although this was easily sorted as I used a tip I had previously learnt from "Robert Rodriguez's Ten Minute Film School" on how to make a tracking shot easy.

Rodriguez in his making of documentary for "El Mariachi" says that he used a wheel chair and just held the camera while someone pushed him about for his tracking shots so we did something very similar by having the lightest person available sit in a chair with wheels holding the camera while I pushed them alongside our actress. The trick was very effective and gave us shots that were steady and manageable, only spiralling out of control once.

Zarna pointed out that our actress is wearing a different costume in the scenes at the school than she was at the scenes in the house. Next week we will begin to put together a rough cut as we have enough footage to begin doing so, with this cut we will be able to determine if the mise-en-scene is out of place enough to require a re-shoot or if it's not noticeable.