Preliminary task - production diary

11/10/16- In today's lesson, we were put into our groups and I found out I am working with Charlotte and Harry. We were given the genre "Musical", which initially felt challenging - however, we soon began to have a lot of ideas, including our main idea of making a kind of musical spoof, with the cliché of a girl and boy meeting and falling in love (played by Charlotte and Harry), with the comedic character of another girl who is obsessed with the boy (played by me).

12/10/16- Today we worked together to create a storyboard and plan out the exact scenes and plot, which enabled us to figure out which songs we wanted to include.

13/10/16- Today we began filming, using my camera, a school tripod, and Charlotte's phone. We were only able to film a short piece of footage however, as we spent most of the hour helping another group film their prelim, as they did not have enough people to play the characters they needed. We decided against using the footage we filmed eventually, as we knew we could recreate in a better setting.

14/10/16- Today we filmed the first scene, where Charlotte and Harry meet for the first time, with Charlotte tripping and dropping all her things, and Harry helping her to pick them up. We used a lot of the required shots, including close-ups, over the shoulder shots and panning. We had to film the same parts a few times, in order to get the different angles we needed, but we were able to film the whole scene, including Harry and Charlotte lip-syncing to "Start of Something New" from High School Musical, and my character screaming and slamming a locker in anger.

17/10/16- In this lesson, we filmed the scene where my character stalks Harry's character "Roy", following him to the water fountain, and becomes angry when he talks to Charlotte's character, "Babriella". This took the whole lesson to film, as we needed the right angle for my character peering round a wall, and a cutaway point where one shot jumped to another.

 18/10/16- In this lesson we put together and edited the footage we had so far, and decided to include a song for my character to make her role of being obsessed with Roy clearer. The song we decided on was "Hello, I Love You" by Adore Delano, as it included essentially perfect lyrics for my character, with lines such as "I like the outfit you got yesterday at 12:23, and my favourite thing to do is watch you dream in your sleep", and "I think you blocked my number so I got a new phone".

20/10/16- Today was the last lesson working on our Prelim, and while editing we realised we had not included a required shot, so had to quickly use a school camera to film Roy walking through a door and his hand on the door handle. We edited this part into the final cut and matched up all the songs, then added our title of "School Musical High" at the start, leaving us with a finished piece.