Day 1 of Filming

Today we Oloy Gaws team members assembled in school at 10am to start our first day of filming.  We had our breakfast first at south canteen then headed to collect our filming equipment. For today, we've borrowed two canon 60D cameras, a tripod and a Glidercam. So after we went to collect these equipment, we went to M313 classroom to put down our stuff and meanwhile Sean and Ronald went to change to their respective outfit. We went to school entrance pathway area to shoot for the scenes. The scenes we were shooting first is whereby Sean(Boy 1) and Ronald(Swagger Man) would be walking along a pathway and Swagger man would instruct Boy 1 to stop while he snapped his fingers. When Swagger man snapped his fingers, here's our VFX shots whereby we would create a floating cap effects. We were supposed to make two caps to float in the air. We uses strings to tie on the cap and make it seems floating. Then, we shot the scene when Boy 1 grabbed the cap. After then, we went back to the classroom to take a short break. After the break, we went up to block m the rooftop area. For this part, we were supposed to film Swagger Man and Boy 1 walking down the staircase and Boy 1 telling Swagger Man that he decided not to be swag anymore as he thinks that it's not the right style for him. Boy 1 would be looking sad and then we would film the over the shoulder scene whereby Boy 1 would passed the cap back to swagger man and swagger man took it back and put back to his head. After this shot, we took a break while drinking some fruit juice and then resume filming. We had helped from other group for one of the scene whereby the passer-bys would give a shocked face at Boy 1's changes when he was walking along the corridor. We've also managed to let Boy 1 and Swagger man to take a selfie as part of the scene which would be also used as a VFX shots in the later part. We later went back to classroom and shot the part whereby Boy 1 staring at the phone which he took a selfie with swagger man and swagger man gradually disappeared from the selfie. Boy 1 would then run out of the classroom and with the help of other group, we shot the final scene of the day by having Emily one of our group member; to be the new person to become swag.

 

I think the only difficulties we've met today is time consuming. We've missed out some shots due to time restrain when we need other group to be acting in the scene and they had to go very soon. Some of our shots have to be changed and re-shoot tomorrow.

 

We would improve on our time management and I think that every shot we took, we shouldn't rush and should think twice before heading to the next shot. We should always have backup plans in case of any hiccups that we'll be meeting.

 

For today, I think that the good thing is we had all the equipment ready and everyone are serious when doing work and filming. Everyone is working well and working hard today. I'm quite glad that we are still in our schedules despite having some hiccups. Although at the end of the day we were very tired, but I certainly enjoyed today.

PEISHAN