WEEK 4: FILM DAY!

FRIDAY 16th OCTOBER! DOOMSDAY HAS ARRIVED! Or rather filming day...I've been feeling quite stressed, we've been asking our friends to help out, the old school way...we've been sending texts, emails and of course depending on word of mouth to get the news of The Hit-ups gig out!
It's an inset day, AND a Friday, so there's no excuse of "school the next day"...I really hope people don't let us down. However, I have to be realistic - I do think its a lot to ask, "can you please come to stokes croft dressed as someone around the age of 75? also can you dance so we can film you please?!"

Mrs. Davies gave us three cameras and a tripod. We want to use two of the camera's to get footage on the dance floor, and position the third camera on a table, near the stage using the tripod to get pans of the croft. We want sharp, clean shots that will make editing easier, yet we also want many shots of the crowd jumping up and down, as if they are point-of-view shots. George, our actor can't make it...so that will make it even harder to film.

Newest member Paul is completely silent in media lessons. I don't know how to encourage him to speak up, maybe he feels overwhelmed with all of our ideas. It's hard to know how to include him, when it's as if he doesn't want to be included. We have to work as a group on this. He won't give me his mobile number, this makes matters so much worse! I have to rely on facebook to contact him:

I feel awful, I'm meeting with Becky and Sidonie at 7pm to set up (during their soundcheck) and then we'll grab Paul at 10pm for the midnight show.

Charlie the guitarist dropped a huge bombshell on us last night...The gig is infact at MIDNIGHT, rather than 8pm advertised on their myspace. Now he isn't replying to any of my texts, extra stress...I'm really unsure of what's going to happen this evening. Seeing as I'm the person in main contact with him, it's as though it's down to me to make this run smoothly!

Good luck to us...

The main obstacles that we may have to find ways to overcome during filming:
-Quality of lighting
-Disorderly behaviour e.g. drunk people looking into the camera lens
-People turning up! (Old people)
- Sharp, focused shots
- The whole media group turning up!