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DIARY OF A DAY OF SHOOTING – DAY ONE
Monday 18th March 2013
PREPARING
Firstly, we got a lift from my mum to Rosie’s house to
film the flashback scenes. Once we arrived we had to
wait for about 10 minutes for Rosie’s mum to finish
hoovering. During this time I got changed into my
costume and then had my make-up done. Once I was
in costume Sam took some pictures and then filmed
Rosie applying my make-up so that I looked more
fatigued.
ME IN COSTUME
ROSIE’S KITCHEN
Once the hoovering was finished we stepped into the kitchen to prepare for filming.
SETTING UP FOR THE FLASHBACK SCENES
First off we considered where to place the tripod and
how we were going to carry out the scene. We
decided to not have short, quick moments of
stabbing or blood but to have a full scene of me
committing the actual murder. However we had very
little fake blood and it stained clothes and I really
didn’t fancy spoiling my top. So the mother was not
actually shown on screen, instead I stabbed over the
camera – with a real knife… I was careful!
FILMING THE FLASHBACKS
We had a few rehearsals without filming because it turned out we
had low battery. After the stabbing scene we decided to use the
fake blood to cover the knife and show a pool of blood. Originally
we had ideas of just having a pool of blood or a shot of blood
squirting to the floor. In the end we decided to have the knife
covered in blood drop to the floor. However we quickly run out of
fake blood and had to use tomato ketchup instead! Amateur I
know but we plan on hiding this by making the flashback scenes
black & white so nobody notices.
DO WE CONTINUE?
Afterwards, we placed the camera on charge for a while to try and
maximise the battery power we could get whilst assessing whether or
not to shoot the playground scene today or wait until tomorrow
because it was raining. We weighed up the advantages and
disadvantages of carrying on tomorrow. The advantages were that we
could have better weather as well as more battery life. However the
disadvantages were that we’d have to reapply the make-up, leave
school again, the weather could be worse, would have to be really
careful in terms of continuity etc. So we thought it was best we film it
and get it out of the way.
MOVING ON TO THE PLAYGROUND SCENE
My mum text me to say she had finished work and if
we wanted a lift she’d be willing to take us. So I rang
her up and we packed up all our stuff and got a lift to
the playground on North Road, behind Sainsbury’s.
We setup our camera and tripod and planned what
we were doing. While Rosie and I considered my
position as well as the position of the camera, Sam
took some photos of the playground.
THE PLAYGROUND
This is the playground along North Road behind Sainsbury’s.
FILMING
Once we had decided positioning we began filming.
We started off with an establishing shot with a pan.
During this pan the camera shows me without the
mask and then when panning back shows me in the
mask. This would present the two personalities and
make the audience question what was going on.
Then we moved on to filming the conversation
between the two personalities.
PROBLEMS
I hadn’t learnt the script. So Rosie had to mouth my lines to me
and the camera picked up that I was trying to figure out what
Rosie was saying. Not only did this affect my acting and the
believability but it just wasn’t very good and we simply weren’t
happy with it.
So we decided to film me saying each individual line.
However there was an issue with us all laughing after making
a mistake and the increasing bloopers containing bad
language.
LOW BATTERY
This was when we realised how unprepared we were
because our battery life was running dangerously
low! We hadn’t followed the Year 13’s advice like we
should have and checked the battery. So we were
rushing to get through all the lines and managed to
finish with just ONE MINUTE of battery life
remaining!!!
END OF THE DAY
We hoped that would be it for filming and we could
move on to editing and have the project finished. But
when looking over the footage we had taken we felt
there was a lack of different camera shots and
angles and FAR TOO MUCH dialogue. So we had
another day of filming to look forward to.