Task 3 - Construction

Firstly, we got the camera and tripods from the teacher but our group was already at a disadvantage as one member of our group was absent. After a major disagreement on one idea, the idea of a James Bond type scene, we decided to do something similar which included violence and based our film on football hooliganism.

I took the tripod home with me and Harry took the camera home with him and the following night, we decided to film at Folkestone Invicta's Buzzlines Stadium. We had many problems including trying to make the filming of the crowd less obvious and we did not use the tripod as this would be too obvious and would stand out around the ground. Instead, harry placed the camera on a fence and we did our filming on this. Another group was also in attendance at Folkestone and we had to give our tripod to this group as they did not have one.

The next day, we uploaded the footage but there appeared to be a lack of footage and the quality of the footage was not up to the standards we expected but we had to deal with this and upload the footage and begin editing. Shane was not present at the match, but he did most of the editing with Harry helping whilst I was constructing our storyboard and animatics.

Next Monday, we decided to do some extra footage which included filming in an alley way, near a pub and inside a classroom. Before this, we had done another scene which does not appear in our film because we had used a different camera and the camera we used did not 'letterbox' like the other cameras did. In this deleted scene, we did not have any blood capsules and had to use tomato sauce instead. During the scenes which include the alley way, pub and the classroom, we had to do many takes as the acting was poor and we were without a tripod as the group we lent the tripod to were still using it. We had to put the camera on a wall and even produced some handheld footage. We borrowed some blood capsules from another group and used these in the classroom scene and were used to great effect. We finished filing, uploaded the footage and left the editing to a later date.

Shane, who was very good at editing, was absent again and I was still busy with the storyboards leaving Harry to do the editing and he struggled. We asked our teachers for editing ideas and the group we have worked closely with helped us at times. Shane did not appear in the lessons for around three weeks and we were lagging behind, so we thought, compared to the group we worked closely with. Shane managed to come into school and completed the editing leaving me and Harry to do the music and titles. We did not need any help with the titles but got some help from Hamish for the music.