During period one and part of period two we carried out a shoot.
After reflecting on some of the issues we have encountered throughout the process we decided that the biggest problem was not having people around to be in our video due to exams. Once we had decided our story we were unsure of whom we could have in it, due to their being two exams today we would not of had much choice, and because of this Lucas suggested that we should be in it ourselves. After deciding that we would be in our video we then had to decide upon where we would film the shots and then organise a costume for Lucas to make him look like a homeless man as well as some props (cardboard boxes, litter, sleeping bag etc) that are symbolically associated with homeless people in the UK. 
After we had sorted out the basics that were required to establish a realistic set we began our filming. (The cameras that we used were Panasonic HDC-SD60 http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_GB/Products/Camcorders/1MOS+HD+Camcorders/HDC-SD60/Overview/3297260/index.html) During the filming process we used two cameras two gain different angles so that there would be different perspectives to the clip. Along with the cameras we used tripods for both to increase the quality of the shot by removing any chance of unsteady filming. They were also a great use because of the fact that we were in the video we could set up the cameras and the angles and use the tripods to hold them, due to this we were able to carry out the task without any issues.
When placing the cameras we used five different angles, we did this because the clip would of been rather boring if we did not use different angles throughout the clip, by doing so we gave ourselves more choices when editing as well.
For the second scene which focussed on the mugging we used a standard knife rather than a more dangerous item, we felt that it was all that was necessary for the image that we wanted to deliver. For the clip we used two angles, the first is shown above which shows the characters walking away from the camera and the second angle was from across the road showing the action from another perspective. I felt that each of the angles made it feel like the viewer is a witness is actually there.
After we finished our filming during second period we decide to continue in the fourth and fifth period. During our fourth period we began our editing of the clips, during this we went through all of the clips that had taken and selected the ones that were good. After that we began to add them onto Adobe premiere, as we finished putting all the clips together we encountered a problem, the software decided to freeze and we hadn’t saved our work, due to this we decided to leave the computer to sort its self out so that we do not lose our work.
Due to the minor crisis we decided to download the songs we require to add to our video, now that we have done that we are ready to complete this segment of the video, however the software was still frozen.
Hopefully the software will sort its self out by the end of school otherwise we will either loose our work or I will leave it turned on over night to see if it is ok in the morning and we will complete it in the morning during second period.
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