Todays lesson.

In todays lesson I Filmed the first episode, minus a small amount of more footage I still need to get.

Even though I managed to get a lot of footage, things didn't flow too well. I arrived on time for the lesson, but the other members of my group had been filming before the lesson except they were moved from room to room even though they had booked a room and even double checked, they were still moved as a class needed the first room. After being given a room, I was constantly interrupted by a teacher who was quite rude. She seemed very annoyed that we were in there even though the teacher who teaches in that class room had let us use it. Her excuse was that she sends some of her pupils in there to do work. When we protested (with good reason, due to our previous misfortune in other class rooms and our permission to use this classroom) she wasn't really nice about the whole situation. She said that we were going to have to come to a compromise, which wasn't really a compromise at all, she said that we would have to leave the class room as her students needed to work. This doesn't sound like much of a compromise, so I stayed and let her students work on some of the computers as long as they worked quietly and wouldn't get in the way of the shots. This finally worked out fine for all students and I began to carry on working and coexisting peacefully in the same room, until the teacher would continually rudely bust into the room and talk to the students and was not thoughtful of if I was filming. This happened many a time so I had to re-shoot the scene I was half way through.

There were also disputes within the group about shots and scenes. These arguments were soon resolved when James, as annoying as it was, quite rightly said he was directing and his word is final but still encouraged creative input from all the group. I tried not to get involved as felt it would just further our delay.

Even though we were very unlucky in some of todays events I felt we worked well and the filming went well, or as best as possible due to our situation. I feel that we all did our best, and am very proud of the footage we got.

Photos from DETENTION DEFICIT's first shoot.

Valerie wondering who and why Vince is under the table, James setting up a shot.


Valerie and Cameraman Joe

Kieths caffeine comdown


In the next lesson we will start to edit.