Preliminary Filming.

Our brief was to design and create a piece of media that showed a person entering a room and having a conversation with a person in there waiting for them.

Once myself and my group finished our original storyboard together and set about filming our second preliminary piece. In our piece we decided that we were going to film the build up to entering the room, then we were going to film the conversation as inspiration hit us.

We started with a high angle shot of the character - Dan - walking around the side of the building, this shot then faded into another long shot of the character walking through the English area - this time from a different angle - we then decided that we were going to move into the English area of the school, here we decided that we would show the character walking over the camera and out of the door at the far end of the corridor, we did this through the use of a low angle shot of the character's legs and their feet. We then decided that we were going to move to the action sequence into the H Block corridor, he we were going to film a long shot of the character walking down the corridor from a series of different angles.

Whilst filming the piece, collectively, we decided that we were going to attempt to add the use of narrative codes within the piece of filming we created. The most obvious code that we used with the Enigma code which is placed in our piece to try and make the audience question as to why exactly the first character is on his way to meet the second.

After school we decided that we were going to go down to the French area of the school - a place that, from experience, we knew would be virtually deserted - he was used the Teacher's Assistant's room to use the door handle, we filmed this sequence several times from a variety of different angles - we started with a long shot, then a high angle shot, then a close up of the door handle being turned - as the room we were using was being used for an after school meeting we decided to use the room next to it, in here we had the second character - Josh - using the computer and then waiting for Dan to come in. We decided that we were going to try and use two point of view shots of each of the characters as they see the other enter the room. As the two divulge in their conversation, uses of a two shots and mid-shots and the majority of our piece is shown as these two shots flip between one and other on the 180 degree rule.

Overall, we worked well as a group. The only issue that occured during filming was that as it was after school we all had an issue that we was that the timings we had seemed very limited as we had already run over the allocated time and we just wanted to finish filming. Another issue that we had came when arguments arose in our group, however the majority of these were retified through coming to a so-called "happy medium" within our group.