Fourth day of filming

On 10/11/09 we continued to film and it was an exhausting day as we were filming from the end of school up until 9 30 at night! But it was all worth it as we filmed many scenes and they were all filmed to our satisfaction.

Firstly, we headed to the cinema again for the second time during the filming process to finish filming all the scenes we needed at this location. During the week we uploaded what we had filmed so far onto the macs and realised that in the lift scene we had missed out a close up of Elles face in the lift to show her facial expression. Unfortunately, when we went back to the lift we previously used it was 'out of order' ! This messed up our plans slightly as we could not film this shot, so we sat in Morrisons waiting for Billy to arrive to film the other scenes we had planned.

Once Billy had arrived, we went back to the Cineworld underground car park to begin filming. Our initial idea at this point of the filming was to film Billy running directly behind Elle, but then we referred back to the bridge scene and took into account the fact that they were running opposite ways and realised that they can not be running the same way as it will not make sense and confuse the viewer. So, we inserted a new shot of Billy running down a ramp to the underground car park which will make them appear from different directions. We filmed this shot from a high angle aerial shot which was filmed by Elle sitting on a platform, Sophie running from behind Billy so it will appear shaky and unstable, a high angle side view and other different side views and one of Billy running towards the camera from a front view.

Following this, we filmed Elle walking down the stairs of the cinema as if she was running down the stairs of the bridge and this will follow the running across the bridge scene. We filmed this in different ways; a front view of Elle running towards the camera and then a pan shot of her running out the door on the right, from behind Elle to create the shaky effect and finally a canted angle of her running down the stairs.

Then, we filmed a side view of Elle running out of the same door through the car park and passing the music box which is sitting and playing on a pole. We also filmed this scene with an extreme close up of the music box and Elle in the background so the music box is the main focus of the shot as it is significant and tells the reader that Billy, the stalker is near.

We found a spooky alleyway we liked and filmed a long shot from behind Elle of her walking down the alleyway, seeing the music box and walking up to it, slamming it shut and walking off. We then filmed in the actual car park a scene where Billy and Elle bump into each other in the centre. As Elle was running away from Billy and not towards him, we could not have them meeting face to face. So, we filmed Elle running away from Billy then stopping in the middle of the car park and turning round to see whether Billy is following her and faces the camera, but then Billy comes up from behind her and she bumps into him and she slowly turns round to discover who he is. During editting, we will involve a strobe light in fast motion at the point where Elle turns round to discover Billy is behind her. This shot was a mid shotof both of them and portrayed their facial expressions clearly.

Then, we realised the time and we had to make our way back to school for a ucas meeting so we told Billy to meet at Sophie's house after the meeting so that we could continue filming. At Sophie's we filmed the newspaper scene again with Billy circling the date and filling in the numbers in the sudoku section. All this was still filmed with the red light effect. We tried two colours for the writing on the newspaper; a red pen so that it will fit in with the continuity of the red light effect and a thick black pen so that it would appear more prominent. We will decide which one looks better whilst uploading and editting.

In our made newspaper, Billy wrote in the crossword, 'Who's next', this shot will fade into the first shot we filmed which was of Sophie, Billy's next victim walking past whilst Billy is sitting on a bench. The audience will then become aware of Billy's next victim and we showed this in an implicit way. Earlier in the filming process, we filmed fake blood dripping off a saw and so we decided to film more following this scene. So, we used the rest of the fake blood and tilted the saw so that it poured on top of the ballerina in the newspaper and it slowly dripped onto the picture. We wanted the blood to fall straight onto the ballerina, but it did not happen the way we wanted so we told Billy to dip his finger in the blood and cross out the ballerina girl. This action reflects the idea of the stalker man planning to kill a ballerina girl.

We wanted the audience to become more familiar with Billy's character so we filmed him pacing up and down the den knocking things as if he was angry and frustrated that he has not caught his victim. Sophie's shed was full of stuff and so it was quite cramped and as we had to keep the continuity of the red light in the den, Emma had to sit on top of a pile of stuff whilst shining the red light whilst also ensuring she was not in the shot which was quite funny. We wanted to convey Billy's frustration so we told him to smash a beer bottle, but we did not manage to film it successfully as it fell quicker than we expected and we did not have enough time to film the transition from Billy's face and the smash all in one shot. It also made a lot of mess and we wasted a lot of time trying to clean it up in the dark at nine at night! We then filmed a low angle shot of Billy typing on the typewriter so you could see his arms and face in the shot so that it is clear to the viewer that it is in fact the stalker man typing up the girl's death story. We decided to film this at a low angle to show his importance as a main character and to also show his power over the ballerina girl.

Then, we filmed from Sophie's extension roof which gave a perfect view of the shed as it was directly opposite. We filmed an ariel shot of the den and as the shed door was quite hard to open, we had a brick holding it open then had Billy kicking it out of the way and then slamming the door shut. This also adds to his angry character. Then, we filmed an establishing shot of the houses across the field next to Sophie's house and it was really effective as it was pitch black and only the lights in the houses were on.

On this day of filming, we filmed so much footage and now the only scene we have left to film is a scene at Bodens studio which we have arranged to take place soon.