Final day of filming !

After re arranging the date many times, we finally decided a date and time where we could film the dance scenes at Bodens studio. Yesterday, we all went to Bodens studio to film Elle dancing so it could be inserted into the rest of our film. These dance scenes are important as it makes the audience more aware of Elle's character-that she is a dancer and this adds to the idea of a music box being incorporated as it has a dancer inside. Although this scene is amongst one of the first scenes in our film opening we ended up filming it last !

Firstly we started off by filming some shots of Elle's feet, going on point. These shots were either long shots or extreme close ups of her feet. We decided to do loads of different ballet techniques and movements as we thought that more would be better than less and somehow, either at the start of our film, with the quick transitions or with the help of fading transitions can show how she got from each shot.

We then filmed some long shots of Elle spinning. We started zoomed in and then slowly zoomed out to reveal Elle. The reason why we did this was because since inside the music box there is a ballet dancer spinning, with a zoom transition Elle will mimic what the ballet dancer inside the box is doing. This is to help show the audience that the box is sort of like a voodoo doll and it controls Elle.

Following on from this shot, we did a extreme close up/canted angle of Elle falling. This shot would come after the shot we previously filmed of Billy slamming the box down. This also proves that the box is a "voodoo doll" and that Billy has some kind of control or power over her. We got this idea from the film "Save the last dance" but we changed it so it was unique for our film.

We also filmed a lot of split jumps through the air. We may not include these shots but we thought if we had more time left over it would make sense to have more footage that shows that she's a ballet dancer. These shots were pan shot follows across the whole room. You could also see Elle through the mirror. This shot was difficult to film because there was no way we could pan across the whole room in the mirrors without the camera and tripod being seen. Luckily in the room there was a pole in the middle which was just big enough for one of us to stand behind with the camera and pan across without being seen. Also as seen in the picture, we filmed some "bar work" which where she completed various ballet moves. We may not have time to put these in our film but we thought we might aswell, as we may end up using some in the fast transition start.

Then we filmed again from behind the pole but of Elle spinning and doing loads of stretches. We then zoomed into her in the mirror to show a closer long shot of her. I like this shot as the audience is not looking at her directly, they are looking at her through the mirror which also gives the audience a sense that she is being watched. I think that this shot makes up for the fact that we couldn't get hold of Billy so we could, unfortunatly, not use the amazing shot of when Elle bends down Billy will appear in the mirror.

Finally we realised that our next shot after this was Elle walking out of Esporta, so we needed some kind of real life transition to show that she's left one place and entering another one. We then panned her picking up her bags and leaving the room. We filmed extreme close up's of her turning the lights off and grabbing the doors. What we have realised though is that we can only use one extreme close up, either the switching off of the lights or the lift, from previous filming, as her nails are black in one and fake in the other. But this would not be a problem as we already have too much footage to deal with.

We had filmed all the shots we wanted and more so decided to call it a day. Today was the end of our filming altogether and I am both disappointed that it has all come to an end as I have thoroughly enjoyed it. However, I am also very excited as we can now finally upload all of our raw footage and start editting properly as we have filmed everything we need.