Filming:office scene

This was perhaps the hardest to film sequence out of the entire movie. This scene required a lot of preparation in order for it to work. The main things that we had to do with the scene was to make it look authentic. It had to look very period based. As our school does look very old, it was good that there were certain rooms that still had an authentic feel. However, there were still certain things we had to do in order to make it even more so.
The first was the collection of props. As mentioned on a previous post, the majority of the props were largely for this scene alone. We prepared for this scene and managed to get all the props that we needed.

The room is also an office in real life where many important meetings happen in the school. As a result, we had to organize timings when we're able to do it. We also had to coincide  this with the times our actress could do as well. Once, we were able to solve and get a suitable time, then we were on our way.

During the actual filming, we  still had to make the scene look authentic as possible. This meant that we had to remove certain chairs and telephones that made the scene look too modern. We also had to frame the shot right so a tennis court would not be seen in the background as we thought that would be an unrealistic view for a private detective. The filming went smoothly and, whilst about 5 takes had to be done in order for it to be perfected, we generally felt it was a good shoot overall. We thought it helped deliver the effectiveness of the time period very well and that it was a great shoot in helping me learn how important authenticity is in a movie.