Preliminary Task, Filming

After drawing a storyboard, deciding what we would film, what camera shots, camera angles we would use and what would be said in our conversation we went to our location within the school to begin the long process of filming.
For our first shots we were to use a panning mid-shot, showing our character walk down a corridor. This pan shot would then lead to show the side of a wall, as we watch the character walk off into the distance. We had to move the camera up slightly so that we did not see the characters face as we wanted to reveal him in the lasts shot, creating enigma. As we were filming in school, the mise-en-scene included some unwanted details, such as school posters which were not entirely in keeping with the gangster genre! To keep in with the style of British gangster films, we kept the suits and adopted foreign Italian accents to make sure the audience immediately understood what we were trying to create. The second shot was of the characters feet acting as a leading line following him up to the door which he then went through. We had to film this shot many times as we found that without a dolly, the shot was very jerky, but the final shot was steady and had a slight noir feel as we caught the beams of light coming through the door casting a shadow on the floor where the character walks. keeping in with the noir style, the next two shots included a MCU walking through a door and then a high angle MS canted angle panning shot which gave it a slightly CCTV appearance, like the character was being watched. When filming the character walking down the stairs, we used a MCU of his feet, filming a pan shot through the bars of the stairs, once again adhering to the noir feel, showing the character to be locked up, through the bars which connote a jail bars. When filming the conversation we kept to the rule of thirds, showing the characters heads in both top corners using a MCU shot. When talking we had to make sure we were matching on action to make the shots feel natural. We also had to get sufficient head and lead room to make it all look natural. We then used a ECU of the characters shaking hands with the voice of the characters talking from the previous scene acting as a sound bridge.
We had to analyse the mise-en-scene to make sure everything looked like it should be there as well as using diegetic sounds which were appropriate. Certain rules such as the 180 rule and the rule of thirds were adhered to as well as giving the film a noir style with the lighting and angles and a gangster feel with the accents and costumes.