Creative Decisions for Filming Classroom Scene

We needed to reshoot the classroom scene because some of the shots didnt work, the only problem was that Nini the main girl didnt have red hair anymore because she was made to dye it back brown.

This put us at a disadvantage because we hadn't finished filming which meant we had to come up with an idea as a group to make it work.
These were the possiblities that we came up with

1) We would film from the outside of the classroom and just hear the noise from the classroom so we couldnt see any of the characters, this might of made an intresting affect

2) We could use another girl who had red hair and film from behind her so we could still see the red hair.

3) We could film from Nini's point of view throughout the whole scene that way we could film it wihout her being seen.


I think the best idea would be the last option because i think it would give a unique edge to our film and i havent seen a whole scene ever filmed from one persons point of view before so this could be quite interesting.

First Draft of Magazine Article

This below was my first draft of the magazine article that i created on the programme Adobe InDesign, i combinded the style of the magazines Empire Magazine and Sight and Sound Magazine to create the layout of it which i thought worked well. We used the same colours from our poster as we did for the magazine article, this was pink and blue which represented boys and girls which was the decision we made from the poster 'It's a Boy Girl Thing' which is the poster below

This is our first draft of the magazine article

Unfortunately this is the edited version of our first draft but you can get the idea of what we were intending to do.

Re-Filming

We had to re-film again hopefully for the last time because unfortunately there was a lot of wind when we filmed so we couldn't hear very clearly when the characters were speaking. We also changed the locations again to make it more interesting and we had Ed with a group of friends instead of on his own.
We had the boys standing around a post box, we also changed the scene of Kate and Nini in the park to back in the bushes to convey to the audience that that is their meeting place.

We also used a camera to capture the sound so garentee that the audience can hear what the characters are saying. Also the character of Ed was changed to another person because Ed was sick for the day we needed him to film

The Other Guy- Woody Holding

Hopefully this time it will work out

Character Photos

The Girl- Nini Hadjipateras


The Boyfriend-Ryan Howard


The Friend-Kate Shurgia


The Other Guy- Ed Bullock


The Loser- Claudia Humphreys

Change in Cast

We had to re-shoot our film because we wanted our story to have more to it and make it more intresting for the audience. We also had a few problems when we went to edit it because we kept getting the people who were filming in the shot especially in the classrom scene so we had to reshoot the whole film.

Unfortunately Gaby is away for this day so Nini had to take her place and Kate Shurgia is now playing the friend of Nini's.

We have also decided to change some of the location and add some new ones. We have decided that it will start in the bushes with Nini and Kate instead of having them walking towards school. We also have changed where Nini meets the friend after being dumped to at the park near our college because we didnt want it all to take place in college.  Also we changed where Nini goes to find Edd we changed it to the bus stop so it was more intresting.

Location Photos

Idea for Poster and Magazine

We were coming together for ideas for our magazine and poster and we came up with a few ideas-

For the poster we thought that we would have Ryan and I on one side of a brick wall with a big gap inbetween, and Gaby on the other side and have Ryan staring at Gaby and me looking at Ryan.

This would be because we want the audience to see how Gaby is isolated on her own and has no one and how she is the one who lost out in the end.

We want to use the colours and font from the poster of 'Its a Boy Girl Thing' because the colours are young and fun just like the characters in our film

With 'Adulthood' the we liked how the characters were up against the wall and we took this idea and are planning on using it in our film. 

For the magazine article we were planning on using the layout of an Empire Magazine and taking bits from the Sight and Sound Magazine such as the credits at the end of the article and where the photo is being placed.

We have chosen to do this style because we didnt want to completely copy an article straight from one of these magazines we wanted to take bits from both and make it more original instead of copying straight from one of the review magazines.