After I completed the storyboard for our soap we arranged a day where the majority of the cast could film, this was Thursday which was an academic tutoring day so this meant the majority of our cast could film most times in the day.
I arrived at 11.30 by the dry cleaners shop to meet the rest of the group. One member of the group 'Emily' bought her two grandparents, little brother and dog whom we planned to use for an 'extras' scene. We choose to use them to show a range of different ages/genders in our soap. Not teenagers alone, despite them being our target audience. Although we managed to obtain a range of different ages we could not get a anyone from a different ethnic background.
We filmed their section then the scene with the thug when he bashed into the 'business man' Michael's father. for this scene we had to switch 'Michael' for the original thug character 'David Bangs' as he couldn't make it at the time. It worked out better Michael being the thug in this scene however. Michael having two parts works well as he is difficult to recognise due to the different attire he wears in each scene. After filming this scene we had a few hours to spare so we made the prop drugs (a bag of flour) for one of our later scenes.
After filling the time by going about the town and watching the footage back it looked promising. Soon enough the group returned, Michael (fellow group member) along with our two other cast members (David Bang's and Anthony Whitfield) Anthony was being part of the 'gay couple' but as his co-star wasn't present I had to play the second character. The scene went well and the rest of the group arrived so we filmed the drug hold up scene by a driveway we found, which seemed appropriate and conventional. After some debates after what camera angles to use the scene went as planned using the bag of flour prop.
As planned on the schedule we finished filming for the day and planned to film the rest Sunday morning to stay with consistent lighting etc.
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