Sandwich Scene

The lesson  Bec was away was the first lesson Claudia had been at school for a week, so we decided to get the last shot of the flower scene done and to do the complete sandwich scene. To set up for the flower scene's shot, i had to get the same type of flower we were using throughout the flower scene. Claudia didn't have to get changed as the shot was just of her hands and she didn't have a jumper on in the other shots so it was all good. I made sure when i filmed her hands, they weren't in the center as that wouldn't be correct in terms of the rules of thirds. After this shot, we got set up for the sandwich scene. For this scene we needed a couple extras so we just asked the girls not filming in our class to do the job for us. I originally had Claudia sitting on the bench in front of the wall then realised once i looked through the camera that the there was a seat in front of her which obstructed my view of her and generally looked strange. To fix this i got her to sit on the individual seat, this looked much better and created a deeper sense of isolation which is what i had in mind. To help us create the needed special effect later of having people ghosting past, i captured 10 or so seconds of her eating her sandwich then got the extras to walk past individually and in pairs. She counted in her head (to get the timing right) when to eat her sandwich as the extras walked past; otherwise, she would have been still when the people walked past which isn't what we wanted. Overall, it was a very productive lesson and i learnt a lot and got a couple really good shots done including a whole scene.