Yesterday, our group met each other at 5:30pm to start filming the rest of our opening. We chose to meet at that time because around then it starts to get dark which we needed it to be to film. We asked the female actress (Naima one of our group members) to come dressed in a white top, as the colour would portray her innocence and hopefully make the audience watching sympathise with her more. Similarly, we asked the male actor (Faustas another member of our group) to come dressed in black and other dark colours to portray how there is a dark side to him and hint to the audience how he was not to be trusted. If we were to film the rest of the film he would continue to wear dark clothes to hint his murderous ways to the audience.
As a group we thought this part of the filming will be harder than what the first part was as this bit will include acting. If the people in our group cannot act the part properly the effect of the opening will be ruined.People who have watched what we have produced have all said they think it is really good and other media students have said already how it is better than what theirs was. So by that feedback it has made us confident that we are doing a god job also that we may achieve a respectable grade. So by poor acting we didn't want that to ruin things.
To make the acting be as believable as possible during the running scene we came up with the idea of making the actress run up and down the alley; where we was filming, to get her out of breath a little to emphasise how she's been running for quite a while also to show how she was frightened and breathing heavily because of this.
We again; on the spot came up with the idea of roughing up the male actors hair to make him look even more threatening and scary looking.While filming we decided to stop and have a group discussion as we didn't know what we was actually filing which made the process confusing, but soon as we discussed what we was doing it from then on it went a lot more smoothly which helped us finish filming everything we needed.
As i wasn't in the film, I was set the task of being in charge of the lighting; making sure there was enough light in the frame. At first we used the light from one of our phones, here I had to shine the light on a certain spot in the frame to brighten it up. During the process of filming I had to run along with the actors holding the phone to give out enough light, bend down and by using my wrist pan across and follow the actors movements, also stand behind the male actor shining the light on his back to make the effect of a silhouette. I found being in charge of the lightening very fun and I was happy that I was in involved with the filming even though I wasn't an actress. However, our plan of using the phone as a light source didn't last as a problem occurred when the phone ran out of battery. Luckily one of the group members didn't live far so they quickly went and got a torch which we used from then on.
We used a prop of vapor ....... to help the actress cry which in the car scene worked very well. We asked permission to use the car as a prop from a group members Mother. While using the camera and the tripod we made sure we was using it correctly and while the camera was fixed on top it was secure. When we moved around from place to place we took the camera off the tripod and carefully placed it in it's protective bag so it could not get damaged in any way.In conclusion, I think yesterday's filming ran very smoothly and we all worked well as a team listening to each other' s ideas. We did not have any disagreements or arguments and i honestly can say i am happy to be in the group i am in. Today we on the IMacs will be editing the footage we took and hopefully finish our Thriller.
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