Wednesday 26th October, 2011

Today was Sandringham's year 12 muck-up day, so we tried to avoid any year 12's overall.
But Rob proposed to us at the start of the day the idea of anyone going out and filming some of the shows that the teachers had organised for the students. Straight away, Damian, Cameron and I shot up our hands saying "we'll do it." Even though that was meant to be at recess.

So in the meantime, us three went to go and find Denise because the previous week we had a meeting with her discussing the International Students Program. She had given us her notes on all of the videos (the things she did like, the things she didn't) and said we could redo the interview with her and some international students.
So, since we told her we'd do it today, we went to go find her.
Luckily we found her standing out by the Library, so we went to go and set up. But considering she had to deal with some student issues, we went to go set up ourselves.

We decided that the best room was the meeting room in the two-story building. But once we walked in there, we realised how ugly the room actually is. In order to make the room more attractive, we decided to set the interview chair up in the corner with the windows, and we grabbed one of the paintings and put it behind it. Next, we brought over two redhead lights, and an overhead light, a camera, tripod and microphone.
Finally, we were all ready for Denise.

Once she came in, I asked the questions to her (we had planned these questions the previous week and had Denise check them). She answered really well, while Damian controlled the sound and Cameron controlled the camera.
It seemed once we were over, we felt we had the right amount of footage and information we needed from Denise.
She then ran and got some of the international students, which we interviewed five of them. One of them being Anna-Marie from our own class. We got some great footage from all of the students, and most of them answered really well! Overall, we were really happy with what we had gotten and Denise seemed happy with it too.

As we were going to film the year 12 concert-performance organised by the teachers, we saw a large amount of year 11's screaming and running towards us. This kicked in our first initiative, which was 'run'. So we ran into our corridor and hid looking out the windows. We were mainly worried because we had all of our equipment in our arms.
Once everything had died down a bit, we heard through an announcement on the overhead that all the year 12's had to leave the campus, so this ruined our plans to film the performance due to the fact that it was no longer on.

Instead, us three went down to Sandringham beach to film the scenery and all of the different cafes and stores, etc.
We wanted to get as many shots as we could that captured the Sandringham area in the best way possible, and lucky for us it was a really good day weather-wise, so we got some really good shots of the beach especially.
And even luckier for us, Rob picked us up so we wouldn't have to walk or catch the bus with all of the equipment.

Overall, I had a really good day and I was really proud with how much we had gotten done.