Second Day of Filming...

On our second day of filming, we got all the shots of our main character (Charlotte) waking up in the forest, and lots of extreme close ups of her twitching in her sleep as she is dreaming/having flashbacks.

We went to Forty Hall and filmed lots of different shots in a small area surrounded by trees. We got some interesting shots such as spinning round whilst holding the camera to show the trees going round and round. Also a point of view shot of Charlotte waking up and sitting up. Another nice shot was a pan of her walking past the camera and walking away down a path.

We had also filmed some extra in between shots such as someone pouring milk into a cup of tea and a clock, although the clock didnt fit in when we edited it into our film so we will cut that out. Then we filmed some extra shots of charlotte's necklace with a clock on it (shot of her hand reaching onto the shelf to grab it and a shot of it swinging from side to side). This could be a recurring object in our film opening which could link the bad character with what happened to Charlotte, etc.

Here is a second draft of our film but we have not officially decided to put these particular shots where they are, we just wanted to experiment with our footage a bit and see what the whole thing would look like with the contrast between the flashbacks and the present time footage (and the black and white contrasting with the colour shots).

We still have a lot more to edit in but this is just a tester. (I really like the shots of the tea and reversed shot of the cheese being cut!)
Here it is;

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.