2. As a group we decided to create a soap
opera trailer for our project. We then
had to decide what our soap opera
would be based around and what was
the unique selling factor for it. We
unanimously decided that we would
create a soap revolving around a
football club and the surrounding areas.
With a rough idea of how our soap
would start we needed to find the
football stadium we would film at. We
got in contact with the general Manager
at Staines town and he kindly agreed to
let us come down and do a recce..
Group verdict
(Email from general manager Ken Williams with recce
conformation)
3. Our Recce took place on a Friday night at the ground as
we knew it would be relatively quiet, allowing us to
recce properly without getting in the way or being
interrupted. We were pleasantly surprised when we met
Mr Williams as he informed us we would have
practically restrictions on the area of the club we could
film. Once we had been given the tour he allowed us to
recce our area, after roughly forty five minutes we had
finished our recce and reconvened with Ken who with
thanked sincerely for allowing us to recce and thanked
in advance for agreeing to let us film at the ground. He
proceeded to give us extremely useful advice as to when
to come back and film and the times that would be
perfect for us to get the shots we wanted. We arranged
with him when we were going to be coming back and
after thanking him again went back to plan the shots,
storyboard and script.
Recce
4. We were informed by the clubs general manager
to arrive two hours prior to kick off to get some of
the shots of player and the empty ground. This
meant we were able to proficiently and
methodically maximise our filming time, making
sure we got all of the shots we need and extra
shots just in case of any problems such as
continuity errors. About Forty five minutes before
the game we managed to get shots of the
supporters, some of the people who work at the
club and other filler shots just for safety. As we
used myself, Staines town players already at the
ground and establishing shots, we didn’t have the
additional stress of arranging actors to be on
location at correct time and date allowing us to
shoot at the pace we needed meaning our footage
wasn’t rushed.
Filming: Staines Town FC
5. After filming at the ground we needed to get some footage of
locals from the older generation and young people. We went
to the local post office which was in an ideal location beside
the pub and a short walk from the ground. As we used Mark
and Edgar as actors in this scene we didn’t have to worry
about getting other actors to location on time. We managed
to film some incredibly useful footage here, when we had
reviewed footage we made our way to marks house to film
his granddad. We again filmed some incredibly useful
footage here, we made sure we thanked Marks granddad
sincerely making sure he knew how appreciative we were
for his role. Once we had filmed we were in a relaxed
position where we could review footage. We luckily spotted
two rather small errors in our filming and proceeded to re
shoot these scenes. We felt that we had been quite successful
shooting that day and knew we only had one more location
to shoot at. We had to arrange actors for this scene so we
would decided when we shot this scene at a later date when
we had a clearer idea.
Filming: Marks Granddads and
area surrounding the ground
6. We gathered our two female actors together, as
they were at the same college as us and
location was two hundred metres away from
college getting the actress’ there wasn’t a
problem and proceeded to Edgar's house on a
Tuesday afternoon. This filming session was
far less strenuous than the other two as we
filmed from three different angels. Our
actresses were drama students which made
our footage feel a lot more professional. Once
we had got over the initial giggling due to the
context of what we were filming we managed
to get the shots we needed within twenty five
minutes. Once we reviewed the footage and
we were happy we returned to college to
upload our footage to the computers.
Filming: Edgars house
(Bedroom Scene)
7. One final problem we found when
reviewing footage with Mr Allison was
that we needed to shoot the bedroom
scene again but from a different position.
He explained to us in class how we
could do that without having to gather
the actors back. Once he had explained
this to us we took the equipment we
needed out at the beginning of lunch
and re shot it in the space of fifteen
minutes, we proceeded to return to
college get the footage uploaded to our
edit and carried on with our school day
avoiding any real problems.
Re Shoot
(Angle we re shot from for continuity purposes)
