GroupF ROCKS: Filming begins - The band+audience scenes

Monday 1st of Feburary

Blog by Kathrine Nielsen - Photos by Emma Green

After having spend 2 hours over the afternoon setting up lights, cameras+tripods and instruments we sucessfully filmed our band and audience scene. Kat devised a ground plan (Scanned copy found below) to follow and with the help of Daniel Hopcutt they both joined together at setting this up following the plan carefully but also used a main plan devised by Emma Green to gather our props as costume and minor details like microphone. The groundplan and 'to do' list helped a great deal and also came in to great help when our audience arrived. Whilst Emma was by the Ludlow Assembly Rooms filming our itroduction to our video (approx 45 seconds long) Myself and Jasmine went to the College Drama room to collect our extras, we had notified miss Francis and asked permission 3 weeks ahead but also had written a letter for her to read aloud notifyig the class. Getting the lot together down the old school room (where we filmed) I got them all started by informing them precisely what to do and gave bad roles to 3 young men (who all were very keen) After this everyone got changed into costume and were ready by the time Emma brought our lead male Matt down - ready to film. The whole thing went smoothly and apart from some minor technicalities with playing the music, everyone did extremely well and we cannot thank Pool A Drama enough. We intend to use the very same group when we start filming our Factory Scenes on Monday the 22th of Feb. in the Oscars room of the Assembly Rooms. We would also like to thank Yona Macintyre for portraying our Edie Sedwick 'wannabe' she was promptly ready, got changed and we had no hazzle with her, and got some beautiful shots of her - Great job!