Shooting the film

We shot our movie over a period of three seperate filming days. I made notes over the course of those days about what we planned to do that day, what we achieved, what errors occurred and so on.

Day #1:
Date: 12th March 2010
Location: A ground floor flat in Walton Park, Werrington.

- Today we filmed a significant amount of the indoor scenes. As the majority of our film takes place inside the couple's flat, we managed to film the establishing shot (of the protagonist and his girlfriend cuddling on the sofa), several different angles of a shot involving the protagonist cooking dinner, and a shot consisting of a brief conversation between the two demonstrating the 180 degree rule.

- We wanted to show a very brief clip of the romantic comedy film Pretty Woman at the beginning of the scene, to show a paralell between the loving relationships of the couple on screen and the couple our film is about. However, filming a television screen resulted in a seriously distorted picture- we discovered from this that, should we include this clip, we would need to find another way to get the images.

- Due to a mistake involving costumes, we had to refilm the scene in the kitchen- the character was not supposed to be wearing a particular item of jewellery in the scene. Had we included this, it would have resulted in a continuity error.

- We selected the flats because the interior was small and cosy- we wanted it to seem as though the couple had bought their first home together. Also, the exterior of the buildings are covered in dark wood, which we felt represented the sinister events to take place there, and the closeness of them had a claustrophobic feel.

Day #2:
Date: 16th March 2010
Locations: Werrington Rec, My back garden

- As the weather was reasonable, we decided to shoot the outdoor scenes today. This consisted of a scene with Matthew on the phone to his girlfriend whilst sitting on a bench, presumably on his lunch break from work.

- We chose the location of Werrington Rec for this scene because one side of the place has a clump of trees- at the time of filming, bare of leaves- which we felt represented the sinister aspects of the film, and on the other side is a playground, which we see Matthew walking towards- this is intended to represent his eventual innocence.

- The footage filmed in my back garden was not part of the main project- we filmed ourselves talking about the film and our characters as part of the extra feature we have been asked to do. Our feature is going to be something like a featurette, including footage of us filming scenes, us being 'interviewed' and us discussing the costumes, music, etc.

Day #3:
Date: 19th March 2010
Location: A ground floor flat at Walton Park, Werrington

- This time, we chose to film in the evening, because we were filming the death scene of the protagonist's girlfriend, and wanted it to be dark to increase the feeling of fear.

- An error in our filming occured- in some of the scenes showing the body of the protagonist's girlfriend, a ketchup bottle, used as part of a solution we tried to concoct to look like blood, is clearly visible.