Second day of filming

On 28/10/09, we continued filming our two minute film opening. Our first stop was Cineworld in Enfield as they have an underground car park alongside a lift and stairs. We chose this location as it was dark as it was underground and was also dingey and spooky. The idea of using the lift was to show continuity in the journey home as when Elle steps into the lift she goes up, runs out the lift and runs immediately onto the Enfield Town bridge.

For the lift shot, we filmed an extreme close up of Elle's finger pressing the button, her walking into the lift and the doors closing in on her. We encountered a few problems at this stage because we had to ensure the lift did not go up but as the lift led up to the cinema the public wanted to use it and so this shot took a long time to film. We also filmed a point of view shot from Elle's perspective inside the lift with her looking at the music box on the floor which was placed outside the lift. At this point, she realises the stalker man is following her and has flashbacks, this part will be shown in sepia effect. The importance of the point of view shot at this point of the scene is so that the audience can understand Elles feelings as they are watching from her viewpoint. The last shot we filmed for this scene was a pan shot of Elle running out of the lift. We realised that this shot was immensely important as it links to the scene where she runs across the bridge which will follow there after during the editting process.

The next shot we planned to film was of Elle walking down the set of stairs after running across the bridge. But once we had set up the equipment we realised that we could not film this shot at this moment due to the fact that there was a big window which was allowing a lot of light in seen as it was around mid afternoon. This would affect the continuity of our film so we decided to film this part another time which was quite a dissapointment.

We then travelled to Sophie's house to film the typwriter and newspaper scenes, the stalker man winding up the music box and coming out of the car and an establishing shot of Sophie's house.



Firstly, we filmed Billy getting out of the car holding the music box from many different angles.This shot will follow after the blend of the two shots of him slamming the box and Elle dancing and shows the beginning of him following her. We had planned to film this scene from a front view but we then realised that the camera and tripod would be seen in the reflection of the car window. So, we filmed this shot from a side view of Billy coming out of the car, an extreme close up of his feet stepping out of the car and walking off and the final shot was filmed from a window upstairs to produce a high angle shot.

The next shot we filmed was an over the shoulder shot of Billy in the car winding up and slamming down the music box and this was achieved by filming from the back seat. Also filmed from the back seat we filmed a gradual zoom and and extreme close up of the spinning ballerina in the music box. The final shot inside the car was of the music box but focusing on the mirror inside it so that you could see the stalker man's eyes. The reason for this will become clearer later on in the film opening as his eyes are also included at the end.

Next, we filmed an establishing shot of Sophie's house to show the stalker mans plotting and planning place. We filmed the establishing shot at an canted angle swooping up to reflect the stalker man's character that he is not normal and rather psychotic.

The last place in Sophie's house was her shed which was pitch black and was where we were going to film the typewriter and newspaper scenes. The only light source we had was a red light which was created by a torch being shone over a top trumps box, the reason for the red light is to reinforce the thriller/horror genre and bring about ideas of blood and danger. We then filmed a shot of a saw with fake blood dripping from it to scare the audience slightly and to make them think about what else is going to happen in this den. We created our own newspaper with our names in the headline to show the credits and an article regarding a murder as the newspaper prop is relevant to our film. We moved the red light across the article to show each part separately and then filmed Billy slamming a cup of tea on the article and beginning to type on the typewriter.

On the typewriter, we filmed extreme close ups of "The Music Box" typed on the typewriter with the red light as a light source. We then zoomed out from this to reveal to the audience that it is the stalker man who is typing this and not the victim.

After two days of filming we have around 15 minutes of raw footage and we still have a lot more scenes to film. We are relying on the editting in order to shorten this to our two minute time limit, we have only had two days of filming and I am already looking forward to editting!