First day filming.

So, tonight we started our filming and i was so pleased that we had all of our actors, equipment, locations and all the permission needed. I arrived at the media suit at 3:20 planning to leave the school and begin filming at 4:30. Frankie was also at the media suit at that time, we arrived early so that we could meet up with some of the actors and just assure that they were comfortable and enthusiastic about taking part. We collected all of the permission slips off the actors and headed down to meet a few of the other actors in the video. Fortunately one of the actors has a car so he kindly let us put the equipment in the car and drive to the location while we travelled there. We explained in more detail what the children would be doing and how they need to give their role real meaning. They listened so so well and really took on board what we was saying. As soon as we arrived at the location i immediately got the camera out and filmed one of the shots of Lion 1 (Charlotte) walking over towards Professor Green (Jimmy). I was hoping that while i was sooting this footage that the other members of the group would be hastily getting the other children into position but unfortunately the process started a bit slow. But we picked up and began the bulk of the video which is the walk and talk shot of Jimmy. We did as planned and shot a long, mid and clse up of that sequence including the introduction of the Lion's (P.G gang) Also as the song is called 'Jungle' and we wanted to film it as a documentary style we chose to use do the bulk of the film in night vision which looked absolutely amazing on camera so i was extremely pleased with that.

However, there was a rather heated argument between myself and Denzel. I knew we had to be strict with time and had to everything sharpish. For example, as soon as i finished the shot with Charlotte, we should have had the other actors in position, but they wasn't. So when we was filming the first sequence of the walk and talk shot Charlotte wasn't clear on quite what she was doing so i asked Denzel to go through the posture and action she had to perform which could literately be done clearly and informatively in 40 seconds. (I know this because i was able to tell the children, in detail in 40 seconds) where as i mentioned before, time was strict, every second was valuble, there was absoluetly no time to waste, which caused the row because Denzel was taking longer than needed, not saying it is a negative thing against Denzel, but everyoneknew we had to be finished by 6:30 so we needed to get as much done as possible. I was disapointed in myself for allowing the argument to happen especially as the children we present and had to see it. Fortunately myself and Denzel acted appropiately and put it behind us straight away as we was there to do a job and do it well. Also we did not want to waste the actors time as it was quite a cold evening.

Overall the filming went well, we got the bulk of it done and schedualed to complete the filming on the following Monday which, luckily, everyone is avaliable then.