First Day of Filming

Due to reasons beyond our control, snow days, our filming schedule had to be changed. We originally scheduled to start shooting on the Monday when we received the cameras and equipment but couldn't start until the following Monday.
As we planned to be shooting in a flat in Sutton we thought it best to get all the scenes that would be shot nearer to home done first, this meant starting in school. We initially thought about shooting in a stairwell but soon changed our minds as getting enough time to shoot without interruptions would be difficult, so we chose to shoot in the lower school, first floor corridor.
We roughly spent only a few minutes deciding what shots we were going to do as we had already briefed everyone taking part on what would be happening and what shots we should include.
As the persona of the main character had to be different to that of when she was entering the flat, our main character had to adjust her appearance, so we found some glasses for her to put on and a large jumper and also made her hair messy to give her an appearance of someone who didn't care.
While shooting we still did encounter some problems like teachers and the odd pupil walking into the shots & the class change over but eventually managed to get all the shots needed on time before the next lesson change over. As we had a significant amount of time we decided that we could squeeze in a few more shots in the downstairs janitors area. This meant that our main character had to do another outfit change and smarten up.
As the scene in the janitors area entailed switching on and off of the light we noticed that the camera took a while to focus which could potentially cause problems so we cut our shooting short with only a few shots of the main character standing around thinking, and decided to use the flats hall way for walking in shot.