First Day of Filming...

Over the half term we were given all the equipment to begin filming our film opening.
We began by filming an establishing shot of the house and Sarah's dad walking past the camera and down the alleyway next to the house we were filming in. We got him to walk down the alley from three different directions so that we would have more options when we start editing the shots.
We then filmed Charlotte walking out of the front door from far away so that the stalker can still be seen watching her from the alley. We had to film a shot from behind Charlotte as she was walking out of the front door otherwise we wouldn't have anything to fill in between him walking down the alley to him standing and watching her leave her house.
We also did a shot of her leaving the house out of the top window of the house just to experiment with angles and to give us more variety in our editing.


Then we did the point of view shot of the stalker following Charlotte down another alleyway after she leaves her house. We had to do this a few times in order to perfect it but it's difficult to know whether or not it will work when we cannot watch it whilst filming.

Our last shot was of Charlotte walking past the camera with the stalker following her. (We had also previously filmed a point of view shot of the stalker's hand grabbing Charlotte's shoulder).
All of us were really pleased with how the first day of filming went but also slightly concerned about the weather and how it would effect the continuity of our film opening, as the sun kept coming out and disappearing all the time, so we may have to do some more filming of the same shots.