We met near the Everyman Theatre, which is close to the building Handstand Productions works in. After waiting for everyone, we entered the building which hosts a myriad businesses. Handstand Productions was located on the first floor (along with other businesses). The room consisted of multiple offices for thee different businesses and a main room with table and chairs, toilet and basic kitchen appliances- the day was spent in the communal area (main room).
Once we entered and sat down we went through what we had brought in (wrappers); our group didn't bring in a large amount of wrappers for the project, fortunately Handstand was prepared as they purchased a large selection box through Cadbury's. Jane also had a lot of wrappers from her family. Then we went through the script which listed he wrappers needed; we went through the changes made to the script form Handstand. The changes were at the start and end- which helped carry a plot throughout the ad- the idea that everyone has a favourite chocolate. The changed ending posed a question to the audience asking them what was their favourite bar.
After this we split of into two groups with Han and Jane leading- they went through the basics of a camera crew (similar to the first day, however this was less in-depth as we had already learned about this on the first day). Each person had an individual role: cameraman, director, clapper, boom and sound check; the basics of a camera crew.
Next we went back from the groups to focus on the one project (the Cadbury's ad), the room was set for filming as one of the walls had a green screen and on the floor was a pile of boxes with a purple sheet covering- similar purple colour to the Cadbury's Dairy Milk purple. Our group then started to film the scene of the wrappers falling- this took 17 takes* (this took from the start of the day to the end of lunch). Five people took the basic camera crew roles, two people dropped the wrappers into the shot, a voice over and the rest acted as directors/commentators or using a secondary camera which was used to film the filming (for Handstand to use). The scene didn't feature the speed up as this will be done in editing. Everyone throughout the day swapped roles so that we had experienced everything at least once.
*It took 17 takes of the scene as the wrappers, which are the main feature of the ad, kept falling out of shot or turning over which meant the logo couldn't be seen. As a contingency Handstand had multiple wrappers so stuck wrappers together so that the logo could always be seen no matter if the bar turn over when entering the scene.
After lunch which was located in the restaurant below Handstand- The Pen Factory- we returned upstairs to film another scene where hands were present in the scene rather than the wrappers being dropped. This took 10 takes* and featured 4 hands rather than 2. The scene was meant to be similar to people placing their favourite bars into a pile though we decided to make it look like playing cards.
*This took 10 takes as the logos weren't facing the camera and the pile effect kept failing- instead of making the scene look full the chocolate wrappers were only in one area (not the desired effect).
We finished filming and moved around the the table were we concluded the day and talked about what will happen in the next session- editing and voice over.
