Filming - Day 2

On Sunday the 15th we planned to film from 10 o'clock to 6 o'clock, however due to one of our actors having other plans we had to film from 10 to 4 instead with Tyler going home a little earlier at 12:30. 
As Lauren couldn't make to this filming day it was just Kirsty, Winn and I. 

The night before I created a loose timetable for our cast and crew to follow so that we used out time effectively as well as having a good amount of breaks so we didn't get too tired and over worked. I feel that the timetable helped the group a lot as we had struggled before with time management.

When we arrived we encountered a small problem. The owner of the barn had forgot to mention to one of the people who used the barn that we were filming that day, so he had not moved his van. The place he left his van was the only place where we could film the running shot with the dolly, as it had the most space. we decided that we would film it on the third filming day instead. It turned put that he arrived a little later but as we had already decided to film on a later date we did not bother him and get him to move his van. 

We started off the day filming my scene.I feel that my scene had its challenges when filming however i feel that i effectively took on the role of director and got the majority of the shots that I wanted to get (apart from the running scene with the dolly shot and the shot with the antagonist). 

One shot I was particularly proud of was inspired by Kirstys idea to use the horizontal ladder as a way to prop up the camera. I took a wooden rod and wrapped the camera strap around it and then got Tyler to hook it up on the rungs of the ladder. This gave Tyler more of a vulnerable fragile look as it created a tilted down shot. 

We then shot Kirstys scene however as a result of the van and the little space we didn't know where to film her ones. We finally figured it out how we would shoot it however it did set out filming scheduled back a little bit. 

We got all of Kirstys clips filmed dead on 12:30 which was the time that Tyler needed to go home. After this we had a look around the location in the daylight and then filmed Winns scene. We collectively took a part in helping each others scenes whether that was in the form of holding a piece of equipment, coming up with ideas or filming from a different angle. This helped us quickly get shots filmed and generally just move the whole process of filming on quickly. 

I particularly helped in the scene where Kirsty wanted a shadow to fall over Tylers face, I came up with the idea to use one of the many ladders to stand on and then stood up when she wanted the shadow. I feel this gave a very good effect.



I feel that although there were some little problems that we faced, I believe that we were very effective and had progressed a lot from how we were on the first day. When looking back at the footage i can see that it is a much better quality and the groups decisions to film when it was brighter and change the costume were very good and effective decisions.