Production:

Tuesday 9^th November 2010

Today was our first filming day, looking at our story board we decided on a time that was convenient for all of us and went to the location that would require the most filming to get it out the way. We all arrived at around 3pm at Lea Vally Park where we were to shoot our ‘walking foot path scene’.  I thought this was a great location as it was secluded enough to do a few practice shots to get our bearings and to see if it was suitable without being disrupted.  Due to the fact that our first location was outdoors we wanted to do it while the weather was calm without wind, rain or snow, which weather reports predicted later on in the week.  The preparation of getting used to the cameras took quite a long time, as well as, despite having our location, finding the correct area that would have enough light and room to fit our actor and props also took some time.

 We had not really planned what was to be filmed before hand so we took a while to discuss that.
At around 4pm we was ready to shot, as it was winter it had got dark a lot quicker than we had anticipated and the lack of natural light prevented any of our shots to be visible enough to see the action within the scene. That day we did not do any filming and felt the day was wasted because we had taken too long. However, it was a learning tool that when we come back to do that scene again, we would come slightly earlier to give ourselves more time to set up, and to come with a plan of what we want to film.

Friday 12^th November 2010

After finding out our initial bar/ hotel location at the Royal Chase Hotel was not available on the day we wished to film, we had to think of another location that will fit in with our narrative at such short notice. I thought it would be a good idea to shot the film at my own house. After thinking about it, the bar scene was not essential. Showing how our killer and his victim met and viewing him smiling and laughing with the woman at the bar, destroys the mysterious unknown aspect of his characteristics and who this man really is.
 My house was the ideal location to represent as the other woman’s apartment; it is more realistic for her to take him back to her own house. If he was to kill her he would not want to do it in such a busy location such as a bar/ hotel room. The killing scene was able to be more realistic. Using my own house we was able to take advantage of the use of space such as the door way, kitchen and bathroom. This was a benefit to us as we could film various scenes in one location without the disadvantage of light problems as we did with the out door location.
 At around 5pm, we began shooting.  Our female actress Hande and our director / producer Michael was the killer and victim. We had to use Michael at the last minute as our initial male actor was unavailable.  Myself and Lyden were in charge of the camera shots as our location and lighting person, Cansu was also unavailable.  We started with the build up of the characters entering the apartment as this was the quickest and easiest shot to do. Getting as many angles as we could; Lyden and I would take camera shots of the same action at the same time.  

Shooting the killing scene was where I was able to use my role as production designer the most. This was the messiest scene and therefore we left it until last. After deciding on the costume for both characters both, I began to apply the make up and added additional props.

Today’s filming went a lot better then Tuesdays we got a lot of filming down, and therefore have a better variety of shots to extract when making our final opening. I think we all enjoyed this day of filming because we was able to take our time, killing scene was the pinnacle scenes of our opening as a whole and we wanted it to be correct and as life like as we could make it.

 

Saturday 13^th Novemeber 2010

At this stage we had only our killing scene completed and needed the  wife scene done if we was to dedicated Monday to getting our final location shot at lea vally park again. As our camera man was unable to film, i took on the role and used my cousin and her baby as our actors.  Filming with a baby was very difficult, we had to try and keep him occupied so he would not cry or figit to much. I thought using a baby would be more realistic than a fake one. I shot various angles and used zooms to show her facial expression.
In terms of lighting I noticed that it was very low key. This however was because there was no natrual light as I was filming at around 12pm at night which effected the visual look of the footage. Unfortunatley thier was not enough time to retake it on another day during the daytime so the footage i had we had to try make lighter during the edtiting stage. 

Monday 15^th November 2010

This was our last day before having to give back the cameras and equipment. We dedicated this day to film our footpath scene we was meant to do on Tuesday. The weather was to our advantage and we had got thier at around 2pm, giving ourselves enought time to film. 

As we had used MIcheal ( our director/ producer) as the killer in other scenes we decided to just use him as our actor. Myself and Lyden again operated the camera to get different angles of the same action. To get these angles we had to film in the bushes. It was really cold outside so we wanted to shot everything as quickly as possible.  It took as approximetly 30 mintues to get enough of a vareity of footage to look back on at the edting stage. We was very happy with the footage we had and was ready to extract the scenes we had made that week into our final piece.