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I feel that the shoot was very successful as our footage was exactly what we had planned, if not better. We had to spread the filming over a couple of days due to equipment issues, involving low batteries and problems with the tape, but fortunately the weather was the same on both days so continuity will not be a problem. Another problem which we encountered when filming was filming scenes two and five; the location was too bright, and so we had to rearrange the classroom and film the other way. We decided to digitally insert the credits over the top of the visual clips instead of writing them onto found objects as they would be clearer, and conventionally, comedy films do actually display credits this way. However, we didn’t want to scrap the idea completely and so decided to display the name of the film, ‘9th Grade’ using stationery. Tom, Fathema and I worked really well as a team throughout, making decisions together and deciding what would work best, particularly when filming scene three outside and working with reflections on the mirrors and shadows of the camera tracking the action. Overall, I think that the production of our opening sequence was very successful as the few problems that we encountered were solved fairly quickly and the footage which we have is perfect for what we need.