Final evening of filming. by Sarah

For the final evening of filming, we had many shots that we had to shoot again from our first night of filming, and also nearly over half of the storyboard. So we left school at around 1.30 in order to be able to film all of these shots in daylight hours.

Firstly we made sure that our actress had already prepared herself for the shoot, as before hand this took a huge chunk out of our filming time. We also had a check list to make sure that we had all of the props with us. We started off by filming inside, and as it was light outside, we had to shut all of the blinds in order to create the same lighting effect as the first shots we took on the first day of filming.
However, we struggled in the bathroom as there are no blinds or curtains, so we had to take it in turns to block the light coming in by holding up a duvet to the window.
The filming itself went fairly smoothly, we had problems with our actress at one point when shooting her scared twitching eyes, so we decided to take that bit out of our opening all together.

Moreover, whilst shooting, we regularly forgot to press the 'film' button down again after we had finished in order to stop the camera from filming, so we had a lot of unnecessary footage that we needed to cut out.

Overall i think that our final night of filming was the most productive. We got the most done, and we were all also prepared for what was to come. In the first two shoots i think we were all a bit naive to the time it takes, and also the stress it brings to film!

Second Evening of Filming by Sammy Wood

The second time filmin was at the location with the swimming pool. As it was mid-November, we had a task of trying to film the shots in daylight to produce a better picture. Then at a later date we could edit the film to make it look like night time. The other problem was filming the shots in the swimming pool as the pool hadn't been heated and was therefore at freezing tempertures. This was therefore hard for the actress to swim in and she found it very difficult.

We rushed to the location to hopefully get there in hours of daylight. We then quickly filmed all of the shots out of water, such as walking out of the pool and wrapping the towel around her, this all ran smoothly, eventhough it was getting darker. The next filming that we had to do were the shots in the pool. We had set the camera up on a scooter so that we could track our actress in the water swimming along. However, our actress was too cold and was therefore swimming too quickly because she wanted to get out that the filming of her wasn't very good as we couldn't track her. However, we tried it a couple more times and caught the footage that we needed to get. We finished the filming quite quickly as we needed the shots to be in daylight hours.

I think that the filming was good considering the situation that the actress was in. The shots that we got of our actress in the pool were good aswell. We have decided that the limited footage that we did get of the actress, could be put into slow-motion to add a more dramatic effect and therefore look like we have more footage.