Filming Schedule - Miss Georgiou

Filming Schedule

Introduction

A filming schedule is something that allows us to be more organised with what we are doing. It causes us to communicate with each other and the actors. Overall we are able to discuss which lessons and days after school we are free to all film. We are able to know the date and time of which we will be meeting and taking part in the participation of our opening film. In addition to this our frame looks more organised as we are able to see what iconography and equipment is needed and who is going to actually be needed in this particular scene.

This helped us a lot with planning our opening sequence. We was able to have an overview of what was needed in each scene. Having a filming schedule made us feel a lot more secure with what we where producing as the scenes that where created in our minds come to life on paper.

Although our filming schedule was made to help us become more organised and take a more realistic approach into filming our opening sequence. We still had to consider all the possibilities that it may not go exactly to plan. We actually changed the location of the bus stop scene that was filmed on the 3rd of December due to the fact that it was an awkward place for us to get to and none of us could make it within a reasonable time sequence. The location was changed to a street outside our school which made it accessible to the actors and production team.

Another part of the filming schedule that we wanted to follow but didn't always stick to was the length of the shots. This was due to a number of reasons, such as actors. In some scenes they would laugh or get distracted and this created a divergent in how long the scenes/shots had to be this was because of the effect that we needed to create without anyone smiling or laughing in the shots. This resulted in a number of the shots being cut down and very short. 

Our third most significant problem that occurred when following the filming schedule was the fact that we had to re shoot a part of the opening scene. When Cameron's character drags the chair. This is because the scene was filmed in the school and some posters where seen in the background this was filmed the week after we thought we had finished all our filming completely but as we went to edit it. We realised that the part of the scene that needed to be changed didn't look right. 

Conclusion

Overall the filming schedule is used to organise and keep up with the different scenes and times for filming. If we wern't able to organise the different days and times of filming then we would struggle to keep up with the work. In addition to this we are able to see what changed we made and what was successful when planing our filming schedule we where able to notice the differences that have occurred when starting to plan our thriller sequence and finishing our thriller opening.