Film Diary- Manisha Bhamra

Manisha Bhamra

Monday 14th November 2016 – Filming around The Westgate School, we filmed
Muna walking around the school struggling, and we filmed her being sick. We took as many shots as we can just in case of anything going wrong. Clayton filmed with the camera, and i held the boom to catch any dialogue or any ‘struggling’ noises. No extras were needed so it was easy to go and film as we had everybody and everyone we needed. However, we found that it was difficult filming in the settings. For example, filming in the schools math corridor was difficult, as children had been sent out of class and therefore in the background. Or teachers would want their door open with a noisy classroom, we tried our hardest in order to eliminating these factors.

Thursday 17th November 2016 – We carried on from filming the initial scenes that we began shooting on Monday 14th. We shot Muna walking up the stairs.

Wednesday 23rd November 2016 – Filming in Tanya Said’s house. This was the most important filming days for our trailer. Clayton was unable to attend filming, so we was left with just Muna and myself trying to to get as much done as possible. However, this was extremely difficult. We had two cameras, a dolly, a boom and mic. When we began filming, the camera would show ‘battery exhausted’ so we changed the batteries. Then camera number 2 would say the same thing, therefore we changed the batteries of that camera also. However, after changing both batteries in the cameras, they would work for around 20 seconds before displaying ‘battery exhausted’ again. This was a MAJOR problem for our filming as we had to be quick before the camera would switch off. We also wanted to film a scene where Jasmine is talking into her ‘own’ camera as part of her vloging, but we was unable to do that as both cameras wouldn’t work, so we couldn’t film this scene.