Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Filming Diary

Day 1
We arrive on set, an abandoned house, early and start filming straight away. We have already planned what rooms we are going to use so get straight to it. The first scene at the house is when Lewis pulls up in his car. We film him doing this using a pan but unfortunately the first time a van drives past and gets in the way of our shot. We have to do another take but we get it perfect this time. The next shot, as we are having to use the same natural lighting, is filmed straight away and this is of Lewis stepping out his car. We play around with the camera angle, seeing what it would look like from various parts of the car. We decide behind the door is best and film. Next, the scene is completely black and for this, Isobel had to get in the boot while Lewis drove and Isobel breathed heavy, as if she was kidnapped. We did this to create the correct noise effects. The next scenes are in the house. By chance Robbie discovered a really good angle of Lewis treading on broken glass, which looks really effective. We film the next few scenes in the upstairs rooms. For the CCTV effect, Isobel had to sit in the corner of the room for 5 minutes while the camera filmed. Once we have all our inside shots done we head home.

Day 2
Today we are filming the beginning part of the opening. This is of Lewis driving. We had to get many camera angles to make this look effective. One angle Robbie and Matt stood in the middle of a field while Lewis drove past. Another is Robbie leaning out on the roof while Lewis drives. We thought this would create another interesting angle. After filming each angle a few times we call it a day.

Day 3
We had to re shoot some scenes today as when we came to edit our thriller we found they just didn't work properly. None of them were too hard to re film and in the end it was worth going back to do them properly!

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