Coursework: Shooting day-action

On that day we were left without our teacher Adam, Matt was helping us.
When we have finished all the preparations, we started to think about shots themselves. On this stage we made some big decisions as we changed the way we wanted to film. Now, there were less constant shots, no panning, we decided to take more close-ups then wanted and the work which we were doing later on was much better then we planned.
It was quite hard to keep everyone doing what we needed, however everyone made their best and it was nice to work with those people.
For every shot we were firstly moving the camera across the room, starting and ending the shot byblack object. Then we were placing the camera on the tripod, regulating the height, bubbling it and then making different shots of each character or move.
We started our filming with shots of Josh (the DJ) working when his friends are hanging around the room. After that we were changing the cast, costumes and background quickly to make as much as we could. We worked well as a group so that day we filmed a lot of shots.

Straight after a little break we made everyone except Josh free. We needed to make more close ups of him and also take some shots of all boards on which he was working on. We have also made some close ups of different surfaces in the room.
Also we filmed the beginning and the end: how he setting everything up for work and how he receives an email at the end. We decided to film the actual email afterwards.
The last thing before cleaning up was the sound. We needed to record the sound of opening and closing door, mouse, keyboard and switches.

In my opinion it was one of the most interesting day in media studies as we did our own thing. Basically, probably all practical work is entertaining and its a pity that we had just one day like this. I really enjoyed that working process and hope that we can make something really impressive in the end.