Members Present: Natalie Michael, Thegla Savvides, Elena Christodoulou, Natalie Nicolaides
The session started at 10.30am
On Sunday 31st January was our final day of filming. When we met up the first thing we did was to go through our plan of the day and establish what the outcomes of the day were to be. Firstly we set up the camera on its tripod, and position the microphone. We also had to adjusted the lighting for our first shot as we had too much natural light coming through the window, which created the wrong atmosphere for our scene. Whilst experimenting with the camera angles and shots we decided to frame the shot with the leaves of a plant positioned next to the camera, this allowed us to play around with focus within the shot, which will also benefit us when we come to edit as we would have a selection of shots to choose from.
The filming of our first shot was the finding of our fist note coming through the post box with the mail. This shot allowed us to play freely with the camera angles and shot, for example, we experimented with low shots of the floor just showing Theglas' feet walking into shot picking up the mail finding the note and then walking back out of shot. We also experimented with extreme close up shots focusing just on the note. Another shot we tried was filming the post as it was coming through the postbox and allowing the note fall to the floor to the rest of the mail. Wide shots were also an option for us in this scene as we brainstormed around the idea of getting all that was happening in the scene to establish a comfortable home atmosphere for the audience.
The next note we filmed was the note found in Theglas' pocket. The scene is of the character returning from shopping, and as she arrives at her door reaches into her pocket to get her keys but finds a note in her pocket too. Again, here we decided to film a number of different angled shots in order to have a selection to choose from when editing. For example, we filmed a variation of over the shoulder shots which allowed us to show the note as the character finds it. We also experimented with wide shots showing Thegla walking up the driveway past the camera and a few shots where the camera follows behind her.
Our next shot follows on from our last shot of the character walking through the door. Here we see Thegla walking straight into the kitchen once she has come through the door and rests her bags on the table. Here we used a wide shot to show her walk into the room, mimicking an establishing shot to inform the audience of where we are. For the rest of the shot we used a variation of different zoomed up shots and panning shots of the character emptying her bag and finding the note in the clothes.
Our next shot was of the character sitting at the table doing homework, and she finds a note in her folder. For this shot we panned the camera around Thegla as she was looking through the folder, this allowed us to view the scene from different points of views, allowing us to manipulate what the audience sees.
Our final note is found by text message. In this shot we had to re-film a number of times due to technological issues as the text message that the character receives was not in time for the scene so we had to do a few re shoots to get it right. The shots that we used here were were mainly establishing/ wide shots of the character watching television and receiving the text message. Once the messaged was received we used a close up shot of the characters face to show her emotion/expression.
Finally our last footage of the day was the shooting of the dead body. This involved Natalie Michael having to play dead in the bushes, here we experimented with long shots, panning shots, close ups and establishing shots. The darkness of the alley and the diagetic sound of birds and twigs breaking adding to the tense, awkward atmosphere of the scene.
written by Natalie Nicolaides
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