DIARY OF A DAY OF SHOOTING – DAY

TWO

Wednesday 27th March 2013

HERE WE GO AGAIN

With a new plan on what we were doing and a much

condensed script, we were ready to start over. We

have kept all the footage from last time, mainly for

the bloopers, but we were also content with what we

had filmed inside Rosie’s house. So we got a lift with

Rosie’s older sister to her house so we could re-apply

make-up and I could change into my costume.

ROSIE’S HOUSE

Sam felt an establishing shot of Rosie’s house would

be another good flashback so we added me walking

to the house. It was at this point I realised I was

missing my jogging bottoms. I thought about rushing

back to mine, it wasn’t too far to walk, but as we

planned on making the flashback scenes black and

white we didn’t think it would make a difference. So

we shot the establishing scene and then we got a lift

to my house so I could get into my jogging bottoms.

RETURNING TO THE PLAYGROUND

We were back at the playground ready to re-film. On the way there, Rosie’s older brother suggested we should have more than just two locations. Rosie and I didn’t agree but Sam proposed we use the street leading to the playground. It was an excellent idea and gave us the opportunity to get in more shots and help establish the setting.

LEADING UP TO THE PLAYGROUND

We started from me walking round the pathway from

Sainsbury’s and make my way to the playground in

four parts. The first part was a tad bit annoying

because we had to keep stopping for other people to

pass by. Then Sam moaned at me for not being able

to walk straight when I focused the camera on my

trainers while walking. I also had a bit of fun

messing around a little because we had plenty of

battery this time around and wanted some bloopers.

THE SEESAW

We were back in the playground. After a

panning establishing shot of the playground

we came to the conflict between the two

personalities. Last time I sat on the right

and presented the two personalities by

what angle I was looking at the camera. We

thought it would be better to have the

antagonist one end and protagonist the

other. It made sense to have the antagonist

on the left because it was closest to the

fence and I was approaching the opposite

end. So it would look natural to approach

the right side and sit down to face my

antagonistic personality.

The seesaw, where the antagonist sits on the left and protagonist sits on the right.

PROTAGONIST VS. ANTAGONIST

We did what we did last time, film each individual line so we could

piece them together later on in chronological order. We started with

the antagonist’s lines. I wanted to get the mask bit out of the way as it

limited my ability to breathe properly. I also thought this time around I

should keep my hood up. This is so that when the mask was off, the

audience would still be able to differentiate between the two

personalities.

Also this time around we had cut down on the dialogue so there was

less to film. We also thought it was best to take multiple shots of each

line of dialogue so we had a range to choose from.

It was at this point that I really wanted to make our plot believable…

MY ACTING

Whilst I was fully aware I would not be receiving any marks for

acting, I really wanted to put in effort. People who saw my prelim

responded positively to my acting in it and I was pleasantly

surprised as I wasn’t trying that hard to act. So I wanted to do the

same with our actual thriller opening and hopefully improve upon

my acting ability. Furthermore, a good attempt at acting would

help make our opening more believable as well as help establish

the plot and reveal characteristics about the characters. Plus it

was a lot of fun!

HOW I PRESENTED THE CHARACTERS

Protagonist: I put on a fairly high-pitched voice to make me

sound really child-like. That child-like voice made me appear

very vulnerable, harmless, clueless and innocent. I also tried

screwing my face up from time to time to show my character’s

confusion.

Antagonist: I used a much more aggressive tone of voice to

create the impression to the audience that the antagonist is

sinister, malevolent, creepy and heartless. I also made myself

look confident to show that the antagonist was in control.

WE WERE NOW READY TO EDIT!

It was freezing cold, our hands were hurting, Sam couldn’t stop

complaining about his toes being frozen and our faces were going red. It

was painful getting through the last few shots but we did it! Rosie went off

for her job training and me and Sam went into a kebab shop to get out of

the cold while we waited for my mum to come pick us up. She picked us

up and we went to get a Domino’s Pizza, where we would get a 50%

discount due to me being an employee! After receiving our “Mighty

Meaty” and sides, we went to my house and ate our hot fresh pizza.

Honestly, it was perhaps the BEST pizza I have EVER had!

Then we arranged a day for Sam to come over because…

FINALLY! FINISHED!