In our production we chose our location to be the abandoned deputy head office. The reason why we chose this location over the original Kings Meeting Room was because the Kings Room was occupied during the time of filming. This meant that we had to find another similar area that wouldn’t be affected by poor lighting, poor sound and poor safety. Luckily we found this in an abandoned office that also happened to agree with our mise-en-scene, only after a little time searching, meaning that we didn't loose very much production time.
We filmed our scenes during period 3, 4 &5 which were good because it meant that all the other students in the school were in lessons and therefore weren’t making noise and interrupting our sound.
For our scenes we finished up with a total of about 8 minutes of footage in which we used about 7 different camera shots. One of the shots we used was a long establishing shot. The reason why we used this shot is because we wanted to get the audience introduced to the environment and the characters. It also gave us a good way to get the audience eased into the narrative. Another camera shot we used was a medium close up. The reason why we chose to use a medium close up is so that we were easily able to capture what a character was feeling with his facial expression and body language. One problem we had when we were shooting this particular shot was that we had difficulties fitting the actors into the frame how we wanted them. This was quite tedious because it meant that we had to retake a few shots. We had to retake some of these shots because if we didn’t we would have had to use the poor quality shots we originally took, therefore making it look very unprofessional.
