planning- second montage filmed.

Yesterday, the weather stayed fine for us to film our outdoor montage. I thought this bit of filming was a lot easier to film than the other pieces of the opening as we had a lot of space to vary our shots. We met our actor at the place we were filming in the morning and planned our shots before we finally started filming. It only took about 45 minutes to film the montage and we made sure we had enough clips to make the montage look effective.

These are some of the photos we got whilst filming our last montage.

planning- weather check.

Today we are going to film the last montage but first we need to make sure the weather is suitable to film in. I went on metoffice to check todays weather and it is supposed to be quite sunny all day so that should fit in well with our filming. Thankfully it has stopped snowing and there isn't a lot of snow around on the roads so we won't need to look out for any risks.

planning- montage two new location.

As we have changed our montages location, we thought we would take some photographic evidence of our where we are filming. We used a girly bedroom to portray the stereotypical female and it is also where most teenagers spend there day. We added more props such as pillows, photo frames, ornaments and flowers to set the scene, also the room was very tidy which juxtaposes the males desk in the main bit of the opening as it will be rather untidy and things will be cluttered about. This shows how we are representing our social groups. The room was a lot brighter as we also filmed around midday whereas before it was evening time, we added some other lights/lamps to enhance the brightness.

planning- montage two re-shoot.

We decided to film montage two again where his ex girlfriend receives the break up text. When we played back the other clips we realised it was to dark and there wasn't enough scenery to make it look as effective.

The new montage is a lot longer and set in the girls bedroom which makes her look like a typical teenage girl as she is also reading magazine which fits in with the narrative of magazines. In this scene we have more room to film from various places getting in different shots whereas from before we were rather limited with space so we only filmed from mid shot. Also the girl has changed her emotion from being upset to angry/confused, emphasising the word 'WHAT' and she looks into the camera almost giving it a personal feel as if she is talking to the audience.

planning- first day of filming.

Today we completed our first bit of filming. We filmed the second montage where the girlfriend had been dumped by text. We took various shots so we could choose from a range of them, this helped us decide which shot looked more effective. We was originally filming it in our actresses conservatory but that didnt go to plan so we had to change it to just be against a plain wall in Rachels kitchen. The filming went successfully and we will begin to film more of our opening tomorrow after school.