In the beginning of the day we shot the scenes of the protagonist sitting an exam. We used a range of different camera shots and angles for this scene. We shot it in a classroom at school to make the scene look as realistic as possible. We used props such as paper, an exam paper, pens and whiteboard during this scene.
We then captured a shot of the protagonist listening to music with earphones in, this was at the same angle we previously shot the train scene from, this was done so we could edit shots such as this together to create a montage. We changed our actresses clothing to make it seem like the footage was from another day.
We then went to my house and filmed our protagonist throwing paper out of the window of her bedroom. We used an over-the-shoulder shot of the protagonist as she approaches the window, we then switched the angle to being from below the window outside to show the paper falling. We also aimed to get a piece of paper to fall over the camera as we could then use this as a transition into another scene.
We then captured another shot for the music sequence of our protagonist sat in the car listening to music from the same angle to use for our sequence.
We then travelled to Newbottle Woods to shoot footage of our protagonist jogging through the forrest. We changed our actresses clothing into gym clothing to make sure it looked like this was shot on another day. We also put her hair up to make it look like she was jogging. We shot various shots of the protagonist jogging, we also timed it so that the sun was also setting in the background of the shot during the time we were filming therefore we were able to capture bright natural lighting. We also captured another shot of the protagonist listening music whilst taking a break from her jog, this was to be added to the sequence during the editing process. We then shot the footage of Molly scratching out her and her ex-boyfriends initials from a tree. We kept the clothing and makeup the same for this scene as we wanted it to look like she had stumbled across the initials during her jog. We shot a variety of angles of Molly approaching the initials and we used car keys to scratch them out.
In the evening we went to my house and shot the scenes of the protagonist and her friend drinking alcohol together before a night out. We used cantered angles and fast, blurred camera movements to demonstrate that the characters were intoxicated. We also filmed shots of Molly applying makeup and Georgie applying makeup to Molly, a scene showing the two friends getting ready before going out.
Finally, we shot a series of clips of our protagonist revising for her exams. We wanted to use jump cuts for this sequences to emphasise to the audience the large amount of time that had passed whilst she had been revising. To do this we placed the camera in one position throughout all the clips. We also placed a light box in the foreground of the shot which displayed text such as '2 weeks before' and '2 days before'. In the background of the shot we had Molly revising, as we would count down the days until the exam which each new clip we would add more revision to her pile making it seem like her workload was comically increased with each day closer to the exam. We also changed her hair and makeup throughout the different clips to show the audience it each clip is a different day.
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