Filming...(again)...

Yesterday we began filming for our new film concept. We started by filming some of the car journey shots out of the car windows and got some good shots of traffic lights changing, people walking down the street, etc. All of these shots will be sped up when we edit our footage to make an interesting effect. It was light when we filmed this part, so we are going to get some similar shots at night, so that we can fade the two shots into each other.
Hopefully it will look something like this once we've edited it (minus the awful music);

As we were driving around we saw a phonebox which was perfect for one of our shots, so we filmed sarah running into it from behind the camera, then another shot of her doing the same thing but from the other side of the road. Then we took two different angled shots of her frantically dialling from inside the phonebox. One looking down at her and one looking up at her. We want to make sure we get loads of different, interesting angles so that we have as much variety in our film opening as possible.

We then saw a street lamp flickering (it was getting dark by this point) but did not quite film it in time so ended up with just a shot of a normal lamp post! All of the things we filmed today are just filler shots anyway to use in our main character's dream/flash back sequence so we were filming lots of short shots of odd things. We also stopped off at Hillyfields to film some point of view shots of someone running. Then we put the camera on the floor so that the ground was at an angle on the screen, and got Aimie to run over it so you could only see her legs.

I think this will all look really good when we've edited it so that it is really fast-paced and choppy. The whole idea of our film opening is to be just lots of short shots of the character's flashbacks put together to make an interesting opening and one that does not tell too much of a story.

Tomorrow we will be filming the part where our main character is waking up in the middle of the forest.