First Day(s) of Filming

Due to Eloise's work & my Grease rehearsals, it has been very difficult for us to find time for filming. Although we found time to do so last Wednesday, we didn't manage to get much done. We found some locations in the city (& took some photographs that I will post soon) & shot a small amount of footage before the batteries ran out on the camera which-as we discovered when we got to Norwich- had not been charged. We even had difficulties with transport getting into the city, as we waited at the bus stop for approximately 50 minutes waiting for a bus that never showed up & then got on the later bus only to have a disruption on the way which wasted more of our time! Our actors were not very happy as they had been waiting for us in the city for all this time but there was nothing we could do about it, & then for our cameras to die after going through all this trouble of transport was guttering for Elly & I!

The only other day we were both available to film was this Wednesday (yesterday), and so- as we had two periods of Media Studies in the afternoon- we got our teachers' permissions to leave the school at lunch time in order to allow us more filming time in the city. Luckily, our actress who plays the part of the anti-hero (Leannan) had free periods in the afternoon, however, Lydia (who was originally going to play the part of the femme fatale) couldn't join us this quickly & was quite busy so wouldn't be able to spend much time filming. Eloise then put forward the idea that she would play the femme fatale (& these would be the scenes that I would need to take on her roles of director & cinematographer as well as my role of camerawoman) so that we could ensure that she is always available when we want to film. We returned to the locations & filmed from the beginning, ending up with approximately six & a half hours spent in the city before we returned home extremely tired but glad that we got most of the filming completed! 

All that is left to film now is:

• different camera angles revealing the dead body (which I aim to do tonight, using Connor rather than our original actor, Toby, due to Connor's availability & short distance from my house)
• an extreme close-up of Connor slowly opening his eyes (which I also intend to do tonight)
• Eloise walking up to a front door (which we will film as soon as the time is available)
• a shot of Eloise framed through a letter box (which we will also film as soon as the time is available)