7/03/2010

Filming:

Setting: Bridge, roads and pathways, House

Location: Thamesmead, Kelseys house (selsey crescent)

Props: Costume, picture frames

Today was our final big chunk of filming. We had to do this in a relatively deserted run-down area to show isolation. However as the area was run down we had to take special precautions and make sure the cameras were not damaged or stolen. We had to take a variety of shots from different angles so we used the many sets of staircases and walkways in order to achieve this. We also filmed through bushes and trees in order to get interesting shots.

During the day of filming we came across a big problem when the "ghost actress" Amy Ling fell over onto concrete, cut her knee and damaged her clothing. This put us in an awkward situation as we had to take into account the well-being of our actress. However she insisted that we finished off our last few shots (Bridge shot, motorway shot). Although we was still able to film our last few shots we could not film from the front of her body due to the damaged costume. Fortunately we was alble to overcome this problem by filming from behind or not filming her legs. Some shots were a bit rushed but as we took several of each shot, this did not effect us too much.

Also today we had to re-shoot the picture frame shot. This is when the main character (Steph lau) walks past pictures of her friends and then they change to the face of the ghost. We had to re-shoot this as the original shots looked very jumpy and were not good enough to be used in the film. This time we made sure the camera did not move at all and took two shots of Steph walking past the picture frames. One were her friends were in the picture and one were the ghost was in the picture. As she walked past the camera and blacked out the screen, we cut the shot and switched to the shot were the ghost was in the pictures. This gave the effect that the pictures changed as she walked past.

This was a good day of filming and we overcome all of our problems successfully.