Filming

The day went relatively well however we did have a few problems with organisation as the member of our team who was responsible for the storyboard didn’t arrive until we were in the middle of filming the bedroom scene. This was a huge inconvenience as it forced us to have to improvise and try and work the continuity and sequencing out on the spot. We also needed to have taken the camera out again between our filming day and the last workshop, we had forgotten some of the settings and wasted a lot of time working that out.

Because of the availability of our main actress we only had one day to film and record the voice over. We decided to begin the day with the voice over however due to circumstances that were out of our control, we were unable to record the voice over. After this tedious two-hour session, we decided to abandon the voice over for the moment and begin our filming. We later arranged for the voice over to be recorded in an independent studio in London.

We began with the library scene as there was still a bit of time before we were scheduled to be at Elliot for the busy peak time. The library scene went very well we had already previously decided on the exact location we wanted we just had to be very considerate of the other students studying around us and we needed to ensure that we kept an eye on the time as we had to pack up our equipment and get it to Elliot in time.

Following this was the scene in Elliot where we needed people to be walking past so that in post-production we could speed it up to further illustrate isolation and the loneliness of the character.

Once we had everything that we needed we moved onto the bedroom scene so that the last scene of her in the car park looked like it was in the evening. In these scenes the continuity was absolutely key we had to ensure that when it was time to put theses bits together in post-production that it would flow.

The last scene in the car park should have been straightforward however we faced a few unanticipated challenges although they were nothing we couldn’t overcome. We did have a bystander come over and express her concern for what we were filming and the location as coincidently we were filming at a time when there were quite a few children around. We then decided that we could have to film this section as quickly and efficiently as we possibly could. We were faced with another obstacle in terms of our original plan for the smoke to come through the hosepipe this didn’t work so we ended up lighting some paper and holding it inside of the car to create the smoke. We were award that this could potentially be a health and safety hazard however we did ensure that we had some water  close by to put the paper out.