The second day of filming started on a much more positive note than the first day concluded, as the weather was nice and bright we gathered the school establishing shots from outside as well as a few other cutaways. When we arrived into the classroom Mr MacKay told us he was available in the same timeslot as yesterday for some more interview questions. However as we didn’t have to travel from the collage and test the equipment in the morning we were much earlier in arriving at Greenfaulds. We then as Mr Rodgers classroom weren’t busy filmed a lot of the cutaways shots, as no sound was being recorded I was able to simply record the PA notes. Following yesterday I took the decision to stop the filming of cutaways much earlier and allow for more time to set up for the interview. The decision was then taken to simply connect the tie clip microphone directly into the camera and record the sound for interview without the SQN mixer. When Mr MacKay arrived the lighting had already been set up and I was able to talk through the questions with him and combine a few of them together to make the process less time consuming for all. This is something I didn’t have time for yesterday due to poor management. Time was taken to perform numerous sound test recordings and all members of the crew listened to them to ensure the sound was of the correct standard. Mr MacKay was sitting at his desk and Tommy was sitting across from him holding the camera, however for the first few questions I was standing asking the questions and this posed a few issues with Mr MacKay looking up towards me, his looking room in the interview then appeared unnatural this was simply fixed by me sitting in the same position I was standing in. Due to the condensing of the questions this interview worked well and we covered about half of Mr MacKay’s. Personally this was a massively relief after the issues I caused to our schedule previously by making errors and to have been able to play an important role in successfully catching up was a major boost of confidence. Over the next few hours Mr Rodgers had a class which returned their consent forms, this enabled us to film Mr Rodgers naturally teaching his class and interacting with the students. This was another major step forward as we gathered in excess of twenty different shots on the main Cannon camera and Scott helpfully gathered yet more with his DSLR. After the lunch break however both teachers had classes which hadn’t fully returned their consent forms. As we weren’t allowed to film we simply used this time to review the footage we gathered in the morning and prepare for filming the Drama afterschool class. However upon arriving in the Drama class Mr MacKay informed us we couldn’t film the class as not every student had brought back in their consent form.
However we filmed outside the classroom in corridors and signs which wasn’t allowed during school hours this salvaged the afternoon and made the waiting around worthwhile. I should have communicated to Mr Mackay about the desire to film the afterschool drama club sooner as this may have allowed him to indicate if it would be suitable to film the drama club and prevented the time waiting.
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