At first it look very fake however after practice we got a shot that actually looked very realistic, this helped us to develop our story as well as make it make a bit more clear as to where she gets her black eye, we also had him walk out that added to the drama of the scene as well. Then for convenience we shot all the girls single scenes, we turned down the light and decided to have the girl curled up on the bed but to the left side of the camera frame which created a nice lonely effect, as well as having a teddy bear with her it gave the audience more sympathy towards her.
We then shot the bathroom scene which we had to do at a very careful angle because we didn't want to get the camera in the background of the mirror. The shot on the story board had it as a high angle but we decided that we didn't want them to see her when she was down by the sink because it would mean that we had to cut it constantly and that would lose the flow of the whole scene. Instead we took out the shot 33 instead we had it just with her hand turning on the tap and then watching her go from washing her face to down to going back up to the mirror.
For the bathroom scene half way through we had to do the makeup which I used a slight grey and brown base for then made it darker around the indents of the eye to make it look more real, we also didn't use black which was a typical mistake instead we blended the different colours together to create the effect. We also wanted it to look real and not to over done so we didn't try to make it an over do.
which lead to this
After the bathroom scene we then decided to do all the reality footage, obviously we had to have it as hand held footage because we defiantly wanted the birds eye view angle. We first shot the part where we had the girl get in to bed, obviously we had the high angle with only her in sight with the rest of the bed to her right. We tried two different ways of this, first i stood to the side of the bed but the angle was to hard for me to completely steady the camera so instead i stood all the way over her in order to keep it at a decent angle, we also then had the zoom, which we tried to do slowly but in the end it looked to jagged and we then did it faster which we knew we could edit if needed.
We then filmed shot 27 - 29 which is when she wakes up in the middle of the night, we filmed this first part just as the last part and then we had a behind her shot of her sat on the edge of the bed, she then yawned but we later decided that it was to cheesy and relaxed for what it actually was. After these three shots were filmed the last things for us to film with just Megan was the waking up and leaving. We decided to have the coat hanging on the bed post already to indicate that the time had passed, and then we had the bag at the bottom so when we filmed it from the low angle close up we had the bag and her legs in focus as well as her coat hanging. We kept it at the angle for when she was getting her stuff then we cut to a medium high angle of her placing the necklace on the pillow. Which we had to takes of one of it zooming in to just the pillow and the other of it zooming straight to the necklace. We decided that we would cut it before it fully zoomed anyway. The last scene we had to shot inside was the high angle shot that tracked to see Harri in the bed which again was harder because of it being hand held.
We then went out to shot the outside footage which consisted of Harri catching Megan outside because he was following her and then the fight scene, we went to the top of the bridge in Giffard Park where we had decided to film the follow scene. We first started at the bottom end of the bridge under the street lamp but as they walked away from us we felt that we couldn't see what they were doing especially when he grabs hold of her hand. So instead we stood at the top of the bridge with the street lamp directly in front of us which gave us more light for them to be seen. We had the shot of them walking past and a quick look at him grab her hand which then cut to a close up of their arms which we then decided was to messy and you we rent able to see the whole image. We began trying to decided if we should make it a wide shot but still cutting their top halves off or we could add more action in. In the end we decided to have more dialogue and then to have more action.... which went like this....
- "get off me"
- she pulls her hand towards herself to get rid of him,
- he retaliates and pulls back,
- as he does so he puts his hand over her mouth to muffle her complaints,
- "shut up, i don't need a stupid little girl going around saying stupid stuff about me, do you understand.",
- she nodded,
- "right then your going to do as i say, we're going to go back to yours and your going to act normal. Like nothing has happened."
We decided to have specific dialogue to ensure we got the clear message of his character as well as create more sympathy for the girl, we ended the scene with him dragging her out of the shot down the hill which was actually very effective.
The fight scene was very complected with the positioning of the camera the first big change from our original plan was that we decided in the end we just wanted it to be Harri and Max who was being beaten up, we also decided to give him a weapon which made me look weaker. We filmed the scene that goes after she leaves his house on their anniversary, which worked out exactly to plan with the story board, we also had a really effective shot of her in the front of the shot with him walking away in the background almost out of focus. The first part we shot was at a low height just in line with Harri's hips with him on the left hand side of the screen so you could see Luke who was playing Max on the right side in front of him. We had him slip the metal rod from his arm sleeve which again was very smooth and effective because it had the element of surprise. It went straight into the fight scene as he swung up and caught Luke on the shoulder, we then cut to the front of them to see the reaction shot as well as another hit, we had one over the shoulder shot because Luke had fallen to the floor which was at a high angle, we then had the side shot again but this time closer up to the action, this showed Harri kicking him in the stomach which you could just make out Megan in the background. There is also dialogue in this part, which leads to the point of view shot of Luke looking at Harri as he grabs his shirt, he then talks to him again. This being a very close up of Harri was very effective, this then cut to Megan's behind the shoulder shot. Then the last shot of the fight scene was the point of view shot of Luke again with Harri's legs, the metal pole in his hands and Megan who is watching from a far.
All in all the day was extremely productive and even though we had made a few changes to the story board I think that we need to do this in order to get the best out of the whole short film. We managed to film all of the things that we had planned and more due to your organising and planning which really helped in the long run.
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