First Day Of Filming ☮ ☮ ☮

This is the behind the scenes of our opening film scene, where i'll be telling you on how the first set of filming went and our strong and low points of the day.

Katy, Mae, Nadiye and I went down to a local coffee shop, Costa Coffee, and showed our only actor in this particular scene,Mae Aka. Ellie, sitting outside waiting for our protagonist "Tara". We want the scene to be as realistic as possible, so we chose this particular location to keep this theme.  We also thought that fitting with the storyline our characters are the type to meet up at a coffee shop and this is a personality trait of them both having this as one of their ways of conversing and meeting up for people of their age, and also to show the type of shop Ellie is in we have her holding a coffee so that if the audience had not already known, it was a coffee meet up.

Here I've incorporated a picture of us film the scene, this one in particular, shows Katy film a slight high angle medium close-up shot of our actor, Mae, where we see her on the phone to "Tara", who is appearing to have run late, we went with this shot as it emphasised with "Ellie" and helped us view the emotion whilst being on voicemail, and how annoyed she appears when she can't get through to Tara. We also wanted it close for when she was speaking into the phone as we can see further more how angry she is with Tara for not showing up as when she speaks is more angry.

This image shows Katy filming Mae again in a wider medium close up shot, which focuses on her surrounding more, where we can see her coffee cup, and wears he watch which shows that time plays a big part in this scene, with Mae's clothing we wanted o portray a serious and dark mood so we had her wearing dark clothes to portray this, but not so dark that she would be perceived as the antagonist, so had her wear her olive green parker. Further with the watch we wanted to incorporate this when she looks at it for the time, instead of her phone as the mobile phone has already been in focus, With the phone we wanted to use it to show a theme of youthfulness, and youths all have phones, and this is the biggest form of communication with this generation in particular and incorporating this means we would show a certain age to the audience when viewing this.


The final image I have is when we filmed Mae in a close up shot showing her angrily talking down the phone to Tara's voicemail, this was used in a closeup so we could explicitly see her whilst she's almost yelling at the phone, so that we can see her emotion clearly, which is irritated.

We made sure to film when it was still light out so around 14:30 pm, this was in order to show that the tension in the film was still quite low as if we filmed at night it would of shown a darker and more scary mood. But also to make it easier to film as we wouldn't need to have lighting equipment to have set up and carry around.

 Myself and Mae edited this scene on Adobe premiere, where we found it relatively easy to cut the clips in order to make the scene effective, and so we can add the next scene on easily when we have one already perfected scene completed. All we have to add to the scene is music but we have decided to leave this till after the filming and editing is completed, all we know it that we want to add a slow paced and possibly violent based piece of music to show the drama in the scene and what is to come.