Challenges we faced with our location

Our Locations had to be changed. This is because the site manager at our school was delaying his decision on whether or not he would give permission to film on school premises with boys for the third time filming. We required filming this many times because we didn’t have the sufficient camera shots. In addition, some of our camera shots weren’t to the best of standards which meant that we had to re-film them. As our school closes at 6pm and needs students to start leaving at 5:45 we only had a limited time to film. This is because we had to wait for the majority of the school students to be off the premises, which were at around 4:00 – 4:15pm, before we started filming.

However, after about a week of waiting, we were told that we couldn’t film at school with boys on site for the third time. This hugely impacted our planned filming and also resulted in three scheduled days of filming to be cancelled. We therefore had to decide whether we changed our storyboard completely and changed the location or if we would find somewhere similar to film. After some persuading, Beatriz’s volunteering place, Trinity at Bowes church, allowed us to use their halls to film our coursework. However, they asked us to agree to repay them by filming a music concert that was happening on Friday 30^th March.

As our filming was pushed back so far, we had to work extra hard to complete the editing of our two minute movie opening. This also meant that we had to attend school during our Easter holiday on Thursday 5^th April to finish our blogs and final two minute movie opening. Beatriz Arredondo recorded the final version of the voices we used in our final piece. She also edited the credits. Roshani Perera created the CCTV monitor effect. Mary-Grace Vicente was unable to attend as she had to go to work.