Shooting Script: Garage

Date:

Sunday 2nd March

Place:

• Garage at Charlotte's house

People :

• Charlotte

Equipment needed for shoot:

• Torches (white light/warm white light)
• Tripod
• Macro Lens
• Camera

Props Required:

• Killer's Jars

Aim of Shoot:

• Film the Killer's Jars in which there are 'body parts' and blood.
• Wide range of shots (angles and movement)

Shooting Script: Stalking Scenes

Date:

Saturday 11th January

Meeting Point:

• Bridge in Bexley @ 4.30 pm
• 30 mins for prep
• Start shooting at sunset.

People:

• Ellen - actor/props
• Ellie - actor
• Charlotte - filming/directing 

Equipment needed for shoot:

• Tripod
• Macro Lens
• Camera
• Steadicam

Props Required:

• Bus Pass/Wallet
• Killer's Mask

Aim of Shoot:

• Film the stalking scene on bridge, down streets and down the dark alley way.

Shooting Script and Evaluation

Date of filming: 2nd January 2014
Locations: Bexley Village, the bridge on the A2

3 pm: Meet at Bexley War Memorial and begin prep for filming e.g. preparing mise-en-scene on the actors

• Mise-en-scene included the stalker's costume and props (all black clothing and rucksack) and the victim's costume (coat, jeans and boots)

4 pm: Begin filming stalking scenes around Bexley Village and bridge

• Shoot establishing shots, POV shots, mid shots, over the shoulder shots 

 

For reference, this is the scene from the storyboard that we plan to film:

5 pm: Finish filming


Evaluation of filming
This session did not go as well as we expected because we lost the light quickly and it became too dark to film successfully, which means we will have to reshoot and reconsider what time we start filming in the future. There were also inconsistencies in the shots and difficulty with camera settings, which will be changed for the next time we shoot.

On the other hand, the session was beneficial to us as we were able to see which camera angles would work the best in these scenes and will be able to use them in the reshoot. Our actor and mise-en-scene were also prepared quickly which will be useful in future filming sessions. After this session, we now have to reconsider how long it will take us to film the rest of our opening and also how early we should begin preparing and shooting in the future.

Shooting Script: Reshoot

This filming session is a reshoot of the session from the 2nd January, shooting this stalking scene from the storyboard:

Date of filming: 11th January 2014
Locations: Bexley Village, the bridge on the A2 (Bexley)

3:50 pm: Meet at Bexley War Memorial and begin prep

• Prepare actors' costumes: stalker will wear black jeans, a black hoodie (with the hood up) and the victim will wear a jacket, jeans and boots 
• Additional mise-en-scene, e.g. stalker will carry a black rucksack
• Move to filming locations after prep is completed

4 pm: Begin filming stalking scenes first around streets in Bexley Village, then move on to filming on the bridge. Shot used will be:

•  Establishing shots to establish the locations
• Mid shots of the victim framed by the locations
• Shots from the stalker's POV as she follows the victim
• Over the shoulder shots of the victim

5 pm: Finish filming

Changes we will make:

• The camera settings will be adjusted to work with the low lighting we plan to film in
• We will begin filming slightly earlier to use our lighting to maximum effect for as long as possible

Through this reshoot we are aiming to film more useable and better quality footage than our previous shoot by taking into consideration the mistakes we made last time and ensuring that we do not make those mistakes again.