Carlisle College - Morning
Today, I arrived at college at 8:30 so that I'd have plenty of time to apply mine and Jasmine's makeup. It took longer than I thought it would to do the makeup today, however, this wasn't a problem, as it allowed the rest of the crew to begin setting up equipment. Here is a photo of what mine and Jasmine's makeup looked like today:
The first scene that we shot today was scene 6, however we changed the scene slightly, as instead of having Mourning Girl walking down a corridor on her own, we thought it would be more effective to have her coming through a door and holding it open for her invisible friend to hint that something was very off with her. First we did the shots of Mourning Girl walking through the door alone. We watched some of this footage back to see how it had worked and decided that it hadn't quite worked having Belle open the door herself in the scene where there is a separate shot of Belle. So instead, we decided that the door should be held open, however there was an issue here as the door had a glass panel and you could see the person holding the door, so we used an umbrella to hook the door open. Here's some photos of this scene being filmed:
The first camera angles we took of the above scenes were static long shots of the characters walking towards the camera. The reason for this was to show Mourning Girl's peculiar behavior as she holds the door open for no one and then before she goes off camera, we get a medium close up of her happy expression.
After we had done the door shots, we then moved on to one where Belle comes up behind Mourning Girl and places her arms around her. I personally don't think this looked to great, as I'd never acted before and didn't really know what to do with myself, but I'm sure this can be sorted during editing next week.
Once we had gotten all the shots we wanted of the hallway, we moved on to the same stairwell that we were in yesterday for continuity reasons. We were going to try and do the same shots we got yesterday but with Belle stood in the background and such. However, we were unable to get Emily (the actor from yesterday) in as she was having lessons. This wasn't too much of a problem, as we just did some additional shots of Mourning Girl rushing down the stairs and then had the camera pan round to Belle stood at the bottom glaring up at the stairs where Natalie had just been shouting. I took a recording of us filming this scene as I thought it would be interesting to have this on my blog, just to visually show how filming went rather than just writing about it.
After we had done the door shots, we then moved on to one where Belle comes up behind Mourning Girl and places her arms around her. I personally don't think this looked to great, as I'd never acted before and didn't really know what to do with myself, but I'm sure this can be sorted during editing next week.
Once we had gotten all the shots we wanted of the hallway, we moved on to the same stairwell that we were in yesterday for continuity reasons. We were going to try and do the same shots we got yesterday but with Belle stood in the background and such. However, we were unable to get Emily (the actor from yesterday) in as she was having lessons. This wasn't too much of a problem, as we just did some additional shots of Mourning Girl rushing down the stairs and then had the camera pan round to Belle stood at the bottom glaring up at the stairs where Natalie had just been shouting. I took a recording of us filming this scene as I thought it would be interesting to have this on my blog, just to visually show how filming went rather than just writing about it.
As time was getting on a bit, our director didn't think we'd have time to do the scene where Mourning Girl is sat alone in the canteen. It would have been nice to have had more time to do this scene, but we just didn't. So the final scene that we did was where Mourning Girl is sat in her classroom doing work when a ghostly Belle appears beside her. As our class isn't in on a Friday, we asked some of the second years to be extras and it worked really well. We also had all of our crew acting in the scene, as we can just add the audio during editing. Here are some photos of this scene being filmed:
I think that we have now finished filming. Obviously, if our film could have been longer we would still be filming right now, as we kept getting ideas of all the things that we could add into the film. We are confident that we have more than enough footage to make our 3 minute film. I did however expect us to be filming the final climax scene where Belle whispers at the end "I love you", but our director for some reason decided that this scene was no longer needed, which was a bit disappointing, as I thought that this end scene would tie the film together nicely, I did try to persuade him to film it just in case they change their mind and also because it was in the script, but I guess directors have the final say with filming. Hopefully the film will still work out okay without this scene, because I don't know if we'll get chance to film it if they decide it was a mistake not to film it.
I think that perhaps if the majority of the crew hadn't left so early again, then we would really have had time to film this scene, as we had 45 minutes left and we just needed to film it in the hallway. However, I'm certain that something can be done with the footage that we do have to create an effective psychological horror.
I think that perhaps if the majority of the crew hadn't left so early again, then we would really have had time to film this scene, as we had 45 minutes left and we just needed to film it in the hallway. However, I'm certain that something can be done with the footage that we do have to create an effective psychological horror.