First day of filming

Day 1

On our first day, we all met at Dans house quite early on a sunday!About 10 o clock, as we knew we would have a full day of filming ahead of us, and needed to be quite quick. We decided Dans would be the most appropriate place to film, as the industrial estate was only round the corner, and he had been insured to drive the car so we could get the right shots of him.

We brought round all our planned props, and Alice helped me to put on makeup to make the effect of the young girl in the boot being hurt and tired and look like she'd been in there for quite some time. After getting ready the costume for the male character, and deciding where we would take each shot, we went to the bathroom which had good lighting to show his face and to introduce the idea of blood when he cuts himself, this took quite long as we were actually trying to make Dan cut himself! So instead we used red food colouring which looked effective with an over the shoulder close up shot.

After getting the right shot, we then continued with Dans morning routine, this showed him putting a tie on, we took many shots of this as we were trying to figure out what would look effective with the narration. We firstly had planned to go straight from the first shot of him shaving jumping straight into the shot in the mirror of him doing his tie up. I thought that could be quite boring and not effective so we then took another shot of 180 degrees tracking shot, to keep the audience intrested.

We went through step by step of how our sequence would go, the next step getting the shot of alice saying goodbye to dan, we decided not to film alice as she had no importance to the film we did not want to interfere with the main character.
I had an idea to film the shot of him driving off out the top bedroom window as well as from behind the car,  from the side and many different angles, however the shot from the bedroom window did not work as well as I thought so we decided not to use this shot.

The next scene we had to shoot was driving to the industrial estate, to the main climax of the film intro. We took many shots from different angles of dan driving, we put the camera over the shoulder shot, and also had a close up of behind the wheel of the car which added effect.

We then took some shots of Dan driving down the road showing the surroundings, and of him getting out of the car. I then had to get the props ready, with the gag round my mouth, and hands tied up, mess my hair up and look like i'd been dragged about a bit.  I then was being filmed from looking down, from a distance to see the situation I was in, with me struggling and screaming.  I thought a good shot would have been of me in the boot with the camera of my face and then one of looking up at him, to show his power over me, but the group disagreed and so we just took the shot of him slamming the boot down and his face of him laughing.

I thought our first day of filming went really well!! and everyone got along. We all had our own input and we knew our plan for what we had to do so there was no confusion on the day. Watching back on the clips everything worked well. I cant wait to start editing to see our final sequence!