Reservoir Dogs Filming

On the 4th and 9th of October we filmed the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs. The cast consisted mainly of students from my Media Studies class as well as Rod a teacher from my school and Oscar Leyens a student in year 13 who stated he had always wanted to be in Reservoir Dogs. On the 4th of October we filmed most of the opening including everyone walking past the blue pick up truck, the shot of everyone walking into the distance and everyones close-up with the exception of Oscar Leyens who we filmed on the 9th. Josh and I were in the filming of the opening, playing Mr.Pink and Mr.Blonde, therefore Lara Foch, the other member of my group, did most of the filming. Whilst filming the opening we came across a number of problems that made things more difficult, these problems included:

The set: We were unable to film anywhere off of school grounds which provided us with a number of different problems. It meant that we our filming was constantly being disrupted and obscured by people wanting to get places around the school. Tjhis was especially irritating when we were filming the scene in which the cast is walking into the distance, because their was a large group of young students at the school coming back from swimming that were trying to get into school. This delayed our filming for a lengthly period of time.

The actors: Many of the students acting within our filming had no previous experience in the field of drama therefore it was hard and unnatural for them to perfom their different roles without feeling uncomfortable or laughing, this meant some particular scenes had to be filmed over and over again. We also had problems with actors getting impatient due to the amount of time filming took and having distractions around them. At times the actors also grew impatient due to having to repeat their scenes.

Time: We had a very limited amount of time to film, although two minutes of film seems extremly short at times we felt very rushed. Due to the fact that the other people had to film we were rushed for time therefore we didn't have any breaks between filming.