Reflections From Filming

I became the new director for the third episode of Lines. Upon planning  for the third episode, we learned that the teacher playing Teacher 1  was away in Disneyland. This caused slight problems for us as the teacher helped with the main plot arc for that episode. We sent out other emails to members of staff and as we never heard back from them in time, we had to cut the teacher out of the episode. 

Another problem we encountered before we began filming was that the girl playing Katie, Angelica Thomson, was ill on the day of the shoot. This was a problem as she was an important part of the first half of the episode. We were going to replace her with someone else, but as we couldn't find anyone willing to appear in that role, we had to change the scene. Instead of Taylor having an argument with Katie in person, we changed it to Taylor arguing with her over the phone. 

Now that we had this problem sorted out, we had to begin the task of creating a shot list and a storyboard for what we were going to shoot. I managed to plan the shot list for the majority of the episode, but there were some parts in which I weren't so sure where we were going to put the camera. 

The end of the lesson arrived and we all headed over to the filming room, ready to begin filming. I felt that the shoot went smoothly. We filmed every scene from a number of different camera angles and positions. I then allowed Dave to film the rest of the footage so that episode 2 could be edited completely. 

Afterwards, we filmed the corridor scene, which we had to cut short due to the fact we ran  out of time. In total, we managed to get around fifteen minutes of footage, which I feel is quite good. I feel I did a fairly average job as director. We filmed everything that we needed to and I made the cast rehearse a few times before we filmed, in order to make them more confident in their roles and subsequently act better.