Today, I aimed to finish my filming once and for all because I can edit on the last couple of days before the deadline on Thursday March 11th. We had a lesson today, so I tried to utilize that time for our filming. While I was asking Mr. Christodoulou, he reminded me that I needed to take the background into consideration and suggested to research about "Green Screening", an aspect used in the movies to make it easier to edit and insert any background in a video. After a lesson of surfing the web for answers, I came up with a reasonable solution. I was to go to the photocopy room to get a big sheet of green paper, this was followed by positioning it in the room so that I can start filming everything all over again except with that big green sheet of paper in the background. Some more research and consulting some experienced colleagues from other classes, I found out that a sheet of paper wouldn't work and would cause even more problems. This got me thinking again and I was able to find an ever simpler and more basic solution. We were to start filming in different areas in the school which will create a good background since most of our scenes were set in a school.
This time wasted on research decreased our expectations to a minimum. Well, what we actually accomplished exceeded our expectations. As per normal, we set up an after school session, reserved the room and started filming right away. This time I came more prepared and brought the camera, 2 memory cards, a USB memory card reader, a fully charged battery and a new addition to the list, a battery charger. This helped avoiding the encountering of problems like not filming because of low battery and the "No Memory" error. Well, not completely. Another problem was caused. Mysteriously, the battery dropped from 100 % charged to around 15 %. So there were a series of around 6 power outages for the camera leading to a series of 6 brief charges to the battery. Later, I found out that that sudden drop of power to the battery wasn't mysterious and was just a fact about the camera I needed to know. It happens, as my dad had told me, when the battery is left for too long in the camera without the camera being used.
Well, we still managed to work things out and actually filmed all of scene 2 and parts of scene 3. As well as that, we also accomplished conducting a new idea. This idea consisted of changing scene 4 from an interview about E-Front, to downloading a video I had just found that was a really good overview of the main interesting features of E-Front, citing the source appropriately. This really helped because it meant less filming but bit more editing. This also meant another adjustment to our script and plan.
Overall, I think we accomplished a great deal of what was planned but I think we could work more on planning and preparing our day a little bit more.
Here is some screenshots of the filming we managed to accomplish today:
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