film diary

sunday around 2 pm we met with the cast of the opening two minutes and headed to the mill pond which is the setting which we decided to go through with using. We wanted to commit to sticking to the story board of each shot that was drafted.

we located ourselves at the further end of the millpond and began shooting, as it was at afternoon and there was people around we had shot some people in the distance which we wouldnt have had in the ideas as we was going to be shooting roughly around 4pm which in this time january would be beginning to get dark and people would be indoors it would be deserted. We changed our time of filming because we thought that it will be too dark for filming and the effect wouldnt work as people may not see the mysterious character appearing in the distance and we want the audience to obviously notice him so the tension would build quicker and stronger.

Our first shot we thought that it was going to be a long shot as you watch her get closer to the camera. The first shot that we took was in a greater distance which ment it took sam longer to get to the point which we was going to stop shooting so we took another take and made her move forward to a closer position of beginning to walk. Although it worked sam during the course of filming had smerked at the camera and come out of camera which means that we will have to retake that shot and cut and combind the other half of that shot so that the attention of the person noticing the camera will not appear in the opening two minutes.

We then decided to add an added in uncopyrighted music which was a ringtone from my phone which was used to indicate the audience that her phone was ringing. It was only for a short period of time but gave off a good effect. We changed the shot from medium shot to close up shot when she was having a conversation on the phone to bring the audiences attention to her. When that conversation was finished the shot was stopped and we changed the shot to a medium shot but during them when coming to edit them and crop them we realised that sam had moved her position of standing and when combinding them together it will literally just jump and will be obvious we will need to go back and reshoot that.

we have added on sounds such as wind and bird which when coming back to listen over is very vague than we thought which means that it had interrupted in the filming. We then added in a new shot where we look from a slight low angle of sam and as she walks past the camera mysteriously behind her underneath the street lamp in sight. The reason we decided to do this shot instead of it appearing in the distance while she was walking because that it would cause a jump from each shot of reece appearing to disappearing it wouldnt look natural and realistic. Another shot which was on the story board which we attempted to try was the sam walking past the tree from a side view and reece appearing and then disappearing it would also cause an obvious jump and wouldnt be believeable.

we did a shot from a low angle of her feet walking towards the camera its different from the shot taken and takes less focus off recent events thats happened kinda makes it more interesting than sticking to long to medium shots of her walking from a certain distance to towards the camera or past it.