Filming

This weekend we managed to do our filming for our media coursework. We began filming at around 3:30 and it got dark very quickly therefore making us under a difficult time limit to film. We began with the pan shots of the surroundings which we are planning to use right at the beginning of the opening and towards the end. We struggled filming the pan over the top of the fence but we managed to use another area in which we could film without the fence in the way, and we can still use the other pan shot as long as we crop out the top of the fence. After this we began to film the running shots. For this we had Jess hold the camera and run behind Natalie as she ran in a white dress barefoot on lots of ice and cold ground! We maybe did not managed to use as many different shots for the running as we wanted but we managed to still use quite a variety of different shots of the victim running. To film the victim coming into the barn we went inside the barn, as she ran in. We were going to try and film her coming in standing by the edge of the barn, with a shot of the paedophile in the field, a close up of the victims face and another long shot with the paedophile gone in one shot but we realised we obviously could not manage this in one take. To get past this we filmed the victim running into the barn and then decided we would have another flashback inbetween here and the victim standing by the edge of the barn. When she was standing by the edge of the barn we managed to film a long shot with the "man" in the field then a close up of the Victim's face, and another long shot with the "man" gone. After this we managed to have a hugh angle shot of the victim running round hay in the barn. We then filmed her standing in front of the huge hole in the barn wall, when the "man" ran past the hole with the girl looking petrified. We then filmed the hole with the wind just blowing through it - showing that she has disappeared. After this we did another pan shot for towards the end of the opening (we wanted to use a lot of natural imagery juxtaposing the beauty of nature against the nature of mankind). The shooting in the barn was quite difficult as there was a real lack of natural light, but hopefully this will add to the terror of the opening.

The next day we filmed the flashbacks in the stables. We found that we added extra shots but the location and acting was extremely convincing. We made sure all of the shots were high angle so we were looking down on the victim making her look vulnerable. We also had the idea of shutting the bars in the stables showing how trapped she was in the box. We also made sure to record the footsteps and breathing of the victim for digetic sound. We also recorded the ticking of a timer for the flashbacks to emphasise of the change in time.

The make-up and props (fake sick and blood) we used were convincing. The lack of props also made opening simplistic but also realistic. We are extremely looking forward to putting all the shots together and creating the final coursework.

We found that we added quite a few extra shots into our filming as we realised if we stuck to the original storyboard the coursework may be too short and some technicalities made us have to add in extra flashbacks etc.