Diary Extract by Shelley Brookes

On Thursday 14th january we decided to film the corridor scenes although it took us half an hour to decide this and to get the actresses dressed and ready. We set up at the end of the corridor and did qa long shot of Lucy walking down the corridor holding her timetable. When she got to the end of the orridor she peaked her head round a classrom door and when she realises there’s noone inside she carries on through the corridors. We got several shots of this. We took a close up from behind her as she was looking in the door and one from around the corner of the corridor so we could just see her open the door then walk towards us. And finally a long shot of her walking away from the door and down the corridor.
We then took the camera to outside the classroom that we film in to see Lucy entering her first class. We did a long shot of Emily-Jane and Lucy walking down the corridor towards the room. They then begin a conversation about what classes Lucy is studying. A continuous shot is then used from round the corner of them arriving at the classroom door. The camera then jumps to inside the classroom to a close upside shot of Lucy entering and then to a long shot of the rest of the class and Lucy joining them. This is the last shot we did.
Although, when we put all the footage on to the computer we realised we would need to film it all again as Lucy was wearing a different jumper and therefore there would be issues with continuity. We plan to film this agin as soon as possible.