FIRST FILMING SESSION!!!!----> 14th January 09

Our first day of filming was on the 14th January 2009

During the day we were able to shoot the couple scenes we needed for the opening. The downfall of this shoot was that the actors weren't able to get into character, this wasted a bit of time. However this footage was usable to some extent.

As today was a half day, we were able to get to our main shooting location which was James' house. Our actor, James, was very easy to work with. We managed to finish our shooting in the 5 hours allocated to us. We used artificial lighting to create the eerie effect required.

The bath scenes were quite difficult to film as it was hard to manoeuvre around the bath in order to get a clear shot of the "victim". We were able to solve this problem and managed to get some good shots of the victim in the bath. The issue we had with these shots is that the water couldn't be seen in natural light, so we used a desk lamp to give us the extra lighting. Then we realised that there wasn't a platform in order to hold so therefore whilst Emily was drowning, Amber was filming, I was in charge of the lighting.

The shots for the room, such as the bookshelves and scrap book etc went very well. The scrapbook prop was well designed, thanks to Emily, and was very realistic. The only problems we encountered were that the camera was beginning to run out of battery towards the end of the filming, but we were able to finish what we needed.