Re-filming Narrative - School Scene (2)

We felt the school scene was the weakest scene in our video and so tried to think of ways to stylize it to make it look more professional. After an in depth discussion including peers and teachers we came up with the idea of a series of graphic matches (or graphic graphic matches as our teachers came to call them), in which a student is doing something completely normal but the shot then cuts to them doing something violent or gory as a zombie.
I drew up a quick story board to help us visualise what we are doing:

The filming itself went very well. We worked out a system where we would film one or two students at a time around the desk in a way that allowed us to keep the actors with their zombie make up done already out of the shot. Our two mane conserns while filming were:

1 - actors move as little as possible while there makeup is being done

2 - DON'T MOVE THE CAMERA! 

This was possibly the most challenging thing we have done, not only in this project, but in the whole of our media course to date. It was essential that we got everything right first time as we only had one chance to do it. We were sure to brief our actors beforehand, telling them what we were doing and why and trying to explain what it would look like after it had been edited. It was essential for our actors to understand this so they had a better understanding of what we were trying to achieve and what we were asking of them.

I think the filming went very well and we are really pleased with how similar the shots turned out:

We linked each graphic match with an extreme close up of Emma's eyes so we could edit this footage like a series of eye line matches, this will help our audience see the world through our protagonists eyes. 

Overall this scene went very well and a little part of me cant believe we actually pulled it off! this scene really challenged are organisational skills, attention to detail (like meis en scene and the slightest camera movements), special effects skills and editing skills. We are really pleased we took this last minuet risk as it really pays off and makes our video look so much more proffetional (as well as helping it make a lot more scene).