Filming Day 1

The second scene of our production involves a party scene, located in a club of some sort. In order to achieve this, we created an event on Facebook, inviting around 30 people to our fake party. Unfortunately only about 15 showed up. In order to create a sense of reality, we insisted that our party members danced close to one another as we filmed lots of close ups and several long shots to make it seem as though the room is much more full then it was. The key aim in shooting this scene was to make the viewer feel as part of the scene. This was made possible with the hand held camera which we used as we walked amongst the dancers and filmed extreme close ups. We mainly used red and blue party lights, but used a strobe to create a sense of disorientation making the atmosphere more chaotic. Key lights were used when filming main characters in order to separate them from the background party people.

PLANNING FILMING DAY 2

For our second day of filming we need to be on a beach on the thames. I looked at high and low tide time to help us work out when would be the best time to do it. We found that in order to be able to use the most of the exposed beach, we would have to be there at around 3am or 4pm, in February.  We wanted to film when the sun was either rising or setting to achieve the reflection across the water and to minimise shadow under the bridge. At the calendar dates around February 15th, we knew that we would have to be there for filming from 4pm onwards, as there would be no light at 3am.

For the scene at night, we are looking at filming at an alleyway near Wandsworth common station, as we thought that the available light and the effect of the high walls would look good.