Earlier today we started filming with our actor and actress - Lydia and Elliot. Tilly and I used Elliot in our film 'Prey' last year so we knew he would be the best person to use as we knew what we was capable of and wouldn't waste time with someone that wasn't any good.
Unfortunately though, Elliot couldn't stay long to film due to other priorities so with the time we had with him, we practised his scenes which we recorded in case they were any good. We filmed Elliot attacking Lydia outside as the re-enactment of the CCTV footage. They did a really good job but I felt we didn't get enough camera angles as I would have liked, and it was a bit too dark so the visibility was quite low.. Next time we film it I would like to perhaps use a light to enhance the lighting. We used Tilly's phone light but I don't think this was effective enough.
Once Elliot left, we made use of the time we had with Lydia by filming her interview. In lesson we previously planned to make the 'victim' remain anonymous, as it would show a variety of different interview techniques and skills, as we would need to make her figure look like a silhouette. To achieve this, I brought along a floodlight from my house which we placed on a table behind Lydia facing the wall to light it up, whilst we turned the room lights off. This was really effective as Lydia was all blacked out so we almost completely couldn't see her, although we may need to edit the lighting a little in tomorrow's lesson to make sure she is completely dark.
Lydia did a great job and we got the scene on the second shoot. We are eventually going to split the scene into separate clips and place it in between the CCTV and re-enactment footage, with the dialogue from the interview playing throughout most of the film as a narration.
After this was done, we filmed the interview from the "friend's" point of view. For this, we used Tilly as she does drama at A Level so is good at acting. We only need a short clip of her talking about how she felt about the attack of her friend etc.
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