Day 1 of Filming

Our group met up after school on 1st March 2011. We walked down to our setting; Repton Park equipped. We found a secluded forest area, which was ideal for our extract. It consisted of a variety of trees and the floor was covered in autumnal leaves. There was also a dense amount of damp mud; this added to the element of horror. The sky was grey and the atmosphere was cold, which helped create a miserable aura for our film. The protagonist was dressed in school uniform as this signifies her role in the film as a student. She was dressed in smart black trousers, a school blouse and a cardigan. She also held a school bag as a prop; showing she was on her journey back home from school. We shot her walking from various angles such as over the shoulder, mid shot and tracking.

Film Shooting

Yesterday, we went as a group to a local forest area in which we had chosen to film the opening of a film. When we got there it was slightly different than what we thought it was like, this caused us to go off track of our storyboards as some camera angles and shots that we wanted to shoot were a bit difficult such as our birds eye view shot. As we found it difficult to shoot a Birds Eye View shot we chose to do the same scene from a different angle as a backup shot and we will decide which fits in and looks best when we come to edit the footage.

Preliminary Sequence

This is our preliminary sequence which was created as a group by Samuel Baksh (Camera Man), Ruba Khan (Actress), Arron Mallory (Director) and Sepideh Safaei-Keshtgar (Director's Assistant). Our preliminary sequence is a short clip of a conversation held in a school using our actress Ruba Khan and an actor who helped us to complete our preliminary sequence. Myself Samuel Baksh edited the sequence but found that when filming I had made a mistake but filming and pausing the camera to quickly missing out some audio in which was needed. Therefore it appears as if the editing was too tight missing some shots.