Third Day Filming

This was our last and final day filing. In this time we had to film all the alley way scenes and also Liza walking to the front door. Our original plan was to film in the station as Liza got off the train however we ran out of time to shoot this scene so began on the alley way scene instead. Alex and Harry could not attend the filming session due to other plans therefore Carmen and I had to film it all with our stalker, Jack and Liza.

We started off by filming Liza walking out of the station and round the corner down the alley way. However this too a few attempts due to random people getting in the way, but eventually we got the shot we needed. We stood a distance away from the station just behind a shop to give that feel of a hidden stalker. We set up the tripod however we ended up resting the camera on the shop shelf as it was higher up and looked more effective. The camera movements we used was a panning shot to show Liza walking down the alley way. I filmed this scene whilst Carmen was the director.

The next shot we filmed was Liza walking down the alley way (face on to the camera) and walking past the camera. We then decided to pan back to the beginning of the alley way to see Jack (stalker) stood head down with a black hoody on. Again this took a few attempts as people kept walking down the alley way, and also our tripod was very stiff so made the shot look shaky.

Next Carmen filmed a shot from Liza's point of view. She walked all the way down the alley way with the camera attached to the tripod, however looking back on the footage we realised the tripod made a rattling effect, so we took the tripod off and Carmen held the camera whilst walking. As we shot the scene a second time a train was just pulling into the station which made a squeaky noise, I think this worked well with our shot as it added a sense of eeriness. Next we filmed the stalkers point of view. I stood behind Liza and followed he with the handheld camera to the end of the alley way. As Liza reached nearer the end of the alley way I had to walk faster and faster so we could get right behind her.

After this we then placed the camera on the floor and directed Liza and Jack to walk past, this was a last minuet shot that we added in with the inspiration from a team member Harry. Watching the shot back I believe this worked very well. We then directed Jack (stalker) to hold the camera and film his hand touching Liza on the shoulder. However Jack did not fully know how to work the camera therefore we had to re do the shot a few times, but after explain to him he fully understood and the shot worked well. Carmen then filmed Liza turning around to see nobody standing behind her, this went smoothly.

I then thought of the idea of Liza walking down the stairs into the subway as there was a bright light shining above the stairs so made the shot bright and more effective. We shot this and it worked very well. I then filmed Liza walking out of the subway at the other end, I climbed up a small hill and took a high angle shot of Liza walking past, this worked very well also and Carmen directed.

The final shot we had to shoot was Liza walking into her house (we used Carmen's house for this). However by this time it was dark and the camera couldn't pick anything up even with night vision on. So we decided to turn on Carmen's bathroom light on which made it brighter however this was not bright enough so we turned Carmen's mums car headlights on to view Liza walking through the front door, this was a very good solution and worked very well.

Overall our third day filming went to plan and was very good. Our actor and actress were also very useful and are great at acting-thanks Jack and Liza!The camera work took us roughly 45 Min's which was good considering the amount of filming that needed to be done.