Day 3 of Filming

Final day!

Finally, our final day arrived. So far we had been on schedule and everything was running smoothly. I managed to find a house we could use close to our college to avoid the events which occured on the 2nd day of filming and all the difficulties we encountered due to lack of money and access to public transport. Everything seemed to be going well before we got the news our producer, Joe, was too ill to attend the shoot. What appeared to be a day of smooth filming and a quick shot ultimately appeared to be changing. However, Joe had managed to get vital work across via message and provide us with things which he thought would work well and attempted to help out as much as he could during his time sick.

Developing a deeper story

However we still had a scene to film and the break up had to be done perfectly. The house owners kindly provided us with our intended proprs such as the knife. He also called over one of the extras from the first shoot to try and implement a deeper story into our video showing him chase after John. It was all going well and continued to go well. Our chosen female lead was also up for the challange of acting. The shot and filming went really well with great shots being filmed and the added addition to the story workng very well.

Neighborhood issues

Our few problems were with cars and neighbours who continued to drive through the road and walk into shot. This was even more difficult with it being a narrow road with minimal walking space before being in the road itself. Another was the dog that lived in the house, causing a few issues while trying to film the few seconds within the house itself where our lead girl goes after John. Ontop of this were complaints from the house owners about the door being left open, which was a major risk for the dog to escape. We couldnt close the door as our shots before had it opened therefor would break the continuity, but we managed to persuade them to leave it open. The final problem was, like on Day 1, the authenticity of the violent sections.

Innovative ways to overcome difficult shots

The wrist slit for many reasons couldnt be done so we tried to imply it with facial shots and close up/extreme close-ups. However the slap was an issue. Despite a first good slap that seemed to hurt the fact it was so unexpected cause our lead girl and John to laugh and be in shock. This acted as the catalyst to many more takes and many more times seeing our protagonist in pain and our lead girl sympathetic. We therefor, with time running out, called it a day and tried to pick off one of the many slaps caught on camera.