Narora

After brainstorming our ideas and removing all the flaws to the script, we began the production process. This involves gather all cast and crew together to see who is available for filming on certain days. Identifying when people are available, allows us to get a sense of when certain scenes need to be filmed and with which actors. It was hard to get our cast together to begin filming, seeing as they were busy with other course work. As a group we decided to change a couple of roles and in doing so we gave those who had more free time a bigger role and those with limited free time minor roles. Knowing that they are volunteering puts a little more stress on us as the directors, seeing as if they do not show up when needed, we cant do anything but move on to the next scene or find a replacement.

In terms of the filming equipment we needed to change the camera due to the fact that we could not attach a boom mic to it. We obtained a great lose in quality when we changed the camera seeing as the resolution is a lot smaller and also because certain effect could not be done on the new camera. We realized that the change in the camera was not a big problem, seeing as we were still giving out the same overall message, which is more important than the quality of the video.

Our plan for this upcoming week is to begin filming certain scenes. Knowing that this week is going to be a lot smaller due to the literacy test, we decided that we should get the cafeteria and library scenes out of the way at the beginning of the week. All the other scenes, such as the vlog snippets and the park scenes, will all be done after school and on the weekends when the camera is available for us to use. Our plan, as a group, is to get the filming out of the way as soon as possible because the editing process will take up the majority of our time. This is not to say that we will rush the filming process, but we will be minimizing a lot of our social time on the weekends to get the filming done early. The goal we have set for this assignment is to have the filming done by April 17th/10. This will give us approximately 2 week to edit the clips we have collaborated and prepare for the critique.

I realized that even though we are encountering a lot more problems then I expected we are handling them quite well. The reason why I think that is because with all the changes we have made to the script, staff and equipment we have not yet lost the overall meaning of the video.