First day of filming our second film

Yesterday after school our group met up to start filming for our new two minute opening. As the lighting was not what we wanted for the part of the character waking up, we decided to film the shots that we wanted to put together for our flash backs. We wanted just short random shots to put together in a snappy way just to give a background of what the character was doing the day before to show the lead up of why they are waking up in a forest.
We were driving in a car and decided to film our journey around town and other roads through the front, side and back windows which we can speed up on imovie and hopefully create a good effect. Also, although this shot was in daylight we are going to do it again when its dark so we can play around with all the lights from shops and houses and put the two different clips together. As we stopped at traffic lights we also thought it would be a good shot if we filmed the traffic lights changing from red to green.
Whilst we were driving we passed a phonebox which we thought would look good for another one of our clips so we filmed Sarah running from behind the camera into the phonebox looking stressed and desperate and typing in a number.

We then did the same shot but from a different angle across the road so we can cut up the clip. We then moved the camera to inside the phonebox and filmed Sarah frantically dialling numbers from underneath and again from above.
As we were filming this we spotted that one of the street lights was flickering so thought that would be an interesting shot to fit into our flashbacks, unfortunatly just as we set the camera up the light stopped flickering but we still decided to film the light just incase it looked good when edited into the flashbacks.
We then went into Hillyfields to complete a few more shots. First we had Sarah running and holding the camera so it is a point of view of her running through a field and then we placed the camera on the ground at a slanted angle to give the effect that the camera had been dropped. I then ran over the camera and into the distance so you can only see my legs running away.

I really enojoyed filming these shots and hope that hope that they look good when we upload them onto the macs and start editing.
We're going to have another filming day tomorrow when we can film our character waking up in the forest and maybe some more of our flashbacks.

First day of filming

Over the half term we had our first day of filming and we got all that we needed done which we were all very pleased about. We shot the middle part of our film opening which was at a house down Sarah's road. In our film we used Charlotte to act as our victim as we knew she would be reliable as she is part of our group and we also used Sarah's dad as the stalker as we again knew he would be reliable and it was convenient as we were shooting down Sarah's road.

We ended up filming a lot more than we needed for each shot as we thought it would be a better idea to have more than less. As Charlotte was acting, it was me, Sarah and Molly behind the camera who filmed, made sure the shot looked right and directed the scenes as this way every group member had a fair role in the making of the film and we all had our say.

We started off by filming an establishing shot of the house which was a wide shot from the other side of the road and showed Sarah's dad walking into the scene and placing himself down the alley at the side of the house where he could see Charlotte but she couldn't see him.

The next shot was from right outside the house when we showed Charlotte coming out from the front door and walking towards the second alley and then Sarah's dad walking across the camera after her. We then filmed this same part but from a different angle. We placed the camera upstairs and filmed out of the window to give a different perspective. This also gives the feeling that Charlotte is vulnerable as is it from a high angle.


We then filmed a shot of inside the house and Charlotte walking out to give another view.

Next we filmed the part where Sarah's dad follwed Charlotte down the alley. At one point we showed Charlotte turning around and realising there is someone behind her and Sarah's dad putting his head down so she cannot see his face. After they walked a little but further Sarah's dad then put his hand out as if to grab Charlotte from behind. For this part we filmed it in two different ways. First we filmed a handheld point of view shot without the tripod and then we used the tripod again to film Charlotte walking towards the camera with Sarah's dad close behind her.


We managed to film everything that we needed to this day and we all really enjoyed it and can't wait to film some more when we get back to school so we can use the dark room. We learnt however that filming does take some time and you have to be patient with setting up the shots and be aware of your surroundings so no people or cars cut through your shots.