Interim cut
Technical difficulties
As a group we encountered technical difficulties at almost every point during the making of this film below is a list of the technical difficulties we faced and the issues they gave us.
. Camera with no battery - when recording at the house we had to use the last camera that was left which unfortunately didn't have a battery meaning we had to keep it plugged in at all times, this prevented us from being able to shoot some shots as there were not power sockets nearby.
. Camera that wouldn't charge - when recording in the classroom we gave up on waiting for the camera to charge so we had to use it while plugged in again, this limited the shots that we could do as there had to be a socket nearby and also it slowed down the filming process
. Trouble uploading - the main problem we had was with uploading footage onto the computers to edit, this kept failing with us waiting almost an hour for it to upload and then realizing no footage has gone on to the computer, this was frustrating and continued to happen throughout the course.
. Camera with no battery - when recording at the house we had to use the last camera that was left which unfortunately didn't have a battery meaning we had to keep it plugged in at all times, this prevented us from being able to shoot some shots as there were not power sockets nearby.
. Camera that wouldn't charge - when recording in the classroom we gave up on waiting for the camera to charge so we had to use it while plugged in again, this limited the shots that we could do as there had to be a socket nearby and also it slowed down the filming process
. Trouble uploading - the main problem we had was with uploading footage onto the computers to edit, this kept failing with us waiting almost an hour for it to upload and then realizing no footage has gone on to the computer, this was frustrating and continued to happen throughout the course.
Storyboard changes
As a group we tried to stick to the storyboard as much as possible however as this was not always possible we had to make some alterations along the way. The most significant thing that we changed was instead of our character shooting himself like we planned we decided him slitting his throat would be better, one reason we decided this was that we didn't have a high quality gun prop but also we thought where would the character have got a gun from and we realized it would be more likely for a teenager to slit their throat so we decided to do that. The only other major change is the walking home scene, we had initially planned to have our character being pushed over however when we recorded this it looked really bad and we realized it would look comical and poor if we included it so we decided against it as a group.