This document summarizes a day of shooting scenes for a film. The film involved scenes of the main character, Matt, practicing boxing with his trainer in a school gym. Several shots were taken of Matt punching pads and then strangling his trainer. Due to mirrors in the gym, the filmmakers had to be careful of potential reflections in the shots. They managed shots facing away from the mirrors and using people to block reflections that could have ruined the shots. The scenes were then able to be edited together to complete the character profile part of the film.

1. DIARY OF A DAY SHOOTING
2
Matt Bovill

2. 26TH FEBRUARY

3. SHOT TABLE
Matt Side view of
his face before
the scene
Side mid shot
of me
punching the
pads
Over shoulder
shots again of
me punching
the pads
Over the
shoulder shot
of me
strangling my
trainer

4. WHAT WE DID
This was my part, this was my character profile part. This was at
school taken in the gym and basically because my background was a
boxing legend doing a boxing session. We started off with different
shots of me punching the pads and then my trainer hits me on the
head. This then shows the temper of my character in the film and he
switches and grabs his neck and throws him and we did a variety of
different shots to see which looked best. I didn’t have ages to do this
scene because I was meant to be playing in a basketball game but
luckily we had it all finished and just needed to edit it all together
before we could attach it onto the rest of the film.

5. TECHNICAL ELEMENTS
We decided to film this scene in the gym, and when we
got in there we realised that we had a big problem. As
there are mirrors all around the gym we couldn’t do some
of the shots we wanted to use as if we did they would
have been in the shot which would have made it look
really bad. So we had to think about what ones wouldn’t
effect the scene. We used a two shot facing away from the
mirrors for the first set of punches which didn’t effect any
of the film because the mirrors were behind the camera
man. Then for the second set of punches we used an over
the shoulder shot over my trainers shoulder which we
thought we could see the camera man in the background
but Will is standing in the way and it looked really good as
well. For the final set of punches we used an over the
shoulder shot on my character which didn’t get effected
by the mirrors and it yet again looked good as well. Then
we done a wide shot of my character throwing will to the
floor and that was it finished.