21st January- Second filming shoot

This shoot was done by Amber and Emily as I had a lesson during the time they had scheduled it for.

The second filming attempt went better than the first. We managed to obtain a wider variety of shots and we used characters that are a couple in real life, so their acting looked real. We used this to our advantage and decided to use the female actress (Abbie) as our target for the murderer. This decision came about because of the real on screen chemistry that was visible between Andy and Abbie.


This time we used the murderer ,James. We positioned him behind a tree to spy on the couple. We knew that this was a slight cliche, however it was beneficial having him there so that the audience could establish the kind of person he is i.e stalker. The shots turned out to be really good and the natural lighting helped a lot.

We also used another two people to act as a couple, Ryan and Rosie. This worked really well with the location and props we used (a book with a love poem). The actors worked well with the directions given, however some of the extras in the background did not co-operate and messed up some of the best shots. Although extras make the scene look realistic, it questioned our choice to have the in other shoots. Due to this we had to shoot again, however we also had to shoot again because of the shot distance, which we noticed when we uploaded the footage onto the Mac's. The shot distance was too far in order to establish the characters emotions.

After school we went to our location (the stalkers home) and re filmed the necassary scenes. We didnt do the bath scenes again as we arranged to do that on another date. We changed the shots to follow through with our focus on Abbie. We used a laptop so that the stalker could be on her facebook page saving images of her. This we realised to starting to become cliche. We used different shot positions to our previous filming because we wanted to see how each position would look. Again we used the artificial lighting to create an eerie effect and to make objects more visible on the screen. Our camera also had a setting that allowed the picture to become slightly orange/red, this we thought was a good colour as it can connote anger and danger etc.

Amber and Emily had encountered a few problems during the filming session, such as the tripod we booked out, was broken, making some of our panning shots uneven. This removed the reality of the context away. They tried to fix the problem whilst on set, but it didn't have much of an effect. Another problem was getting the actor to be willing to re do shots again and again, as this is what we had to do because of the broken tripod and sometimes lighting that wasn't positioned correctly.

Overall, this film shoot went better than the first one, as we had more footage with better quality in a way and Amber and Emily had gained more experience with the cameras and positioning. The lighting problem that they had in the first shoot was resolved this time as well. Continuity was also a problem at times, as they picked up, they played back our footage. This meant that we had some major room for improvement.