Second Day of Filming Analysis

On Sunday the 6th of February we re-filmed our exterior shots as well as added in our car shots. We started at 12 and were finished by 3. We began the day by filming the car scenes, since none of us can legally drive i got my mum to drive the car while we filmed Reanna in the back of the car. We drove up and down the road multiple times, as the speed bumps kept messing up our shots. We only had a short amount of time to get this right. We also filmed Reanna's character Megan with her face up against the window as we drove into the Ainsworth Estate part of the road. Switching between the cameras perspective filming Megan looking out the window, and her perspective of what she is seeing. This is the roughest area of the road, the reason we filmed there was to show the contrast between Megan and the concrete jungle of flats. These flats not only create mise en scene but are iconographic of London. Our audience has to establish that we are in London, because if we were to market this film we want it to appeal to a vast audience. Which could include america, they need to identify that this is London, but instead of going for the typical tourist sights we wanted to create a more realistic portrait of London. By having these council owned flats and also the nicer houses of London, we are showing the divide in current North West London. Megan herself has probably only visited London two or three times before this on day trips, and now she is been thrown into this environment. Its not the London you see in Richard Curtis film, its gritty and you need to be tough to survive. Megan isn't tough, she has been brought up in the countryside and she has already suffered from episodes of depression, this move could send her off the edge.

The divide on Boundary Road between lower class and upper class

Boundary road's Ainsworth Estate

An example of an upper class house on the road

Megans Flat block

Once we had got all the car shots we the re-filmed the exterior shots of Megan and Jemma that we had done the day before. This time i still stayed close as possible with the storyboard, but also experimented with different angles to capture the story such as side angles and high angles, to make the viewer see the different statuses not just between the two characters but also between Megan and the flats shes moving into. I wanted the audience to see the power struggle between the two.

High angle of Jemma and Reanna our actresses makes them look vulnerable

Long shot shows there tense body language

 Extreme mid-shot from a side perspective shows there eyeline and also the location

Low angle of the flat makes it appear large and daunting.

After a successful shoot, we went back and re watched the footage. Thankfully this time the exterior shots were composed and not as shaky or blurred. The establish shots filmed in the car though shaky, gave it a realistic effect, one of the actresses said it had a very 'paranormal activity' vibe to it. Though our film is a thriller and has a script, we do want it to be believable, the storyline has elements that everyone can relate to. Its important that this believability is conveyed in our filming style, otherwise the audience wont be probably immersed in Megan's struggle between sanity and insanity, reality and the hypothetical. 

With all our shots done, its now time to edit it, and turn it into a proper film opening.

-Holly