Shooting :day one (24th November)

Today we began filming. We were ran into many difficulties today but overall today was a success. We first all met up at 3:30 at the media department in order to book out the camera and sort out specifically what we were going to shoot today. we agreed that we would do all of the walk and talk shots of professor green and his fellow lions walking and if we had a chance do some of the shots at parsloes park with the gorillas(although we doubted we'd have time to do this). Then at 4:30 we met up with our actors at the front of the school. however we had our first problem. Two of our actors had not turned up but fortunately one of actors came along with two of girls and luckily they both had permission slips. With all the actors around all that was left to do was get to the location. Once we arrived at the location we set up ourselves and walked our actors through the scene. We experienced a minor arguments whilst doing so amongst the group but we overcame them and as a result was able to get some good shots. When we rehearsed the performance the kids were all shy and timid so in order to tackle this situation we decided to show them and get them to free up. It took some time in order to get a good performance from them but when it came down to it they did very well. Jimmy the 11yr old playing the character of Professor Green did well especially. He took my advice and listened to what I said and I'd liked to believe that from our advice and direction we got a good performance from him. Following from Jake Wynne's advice we shot all are shots through the whole song and it gives me great pleasure to say we got most of our footage of the lions(kids).Today we got a shot of him performing the whole song at a Close up, Mid shot, Long shot. These were all walk and talk shot which I feel will allow for a good flow to the film due to the diverse range of shots we have to choose from. Unfortunately, we were unable to do the scenes with the gorillas (adults) so we rearranged to do the filming on Monday and hopefully we will have all our footage that we will need.