Day one and two of Filming

On the day of filming me and Emma, my actor, went to our location on Brighton Beach.  We took a slow train so I could get plenty of footage of my main character on the train, this allowed me to use a variety of angles that i had not initially thought would work. On the train there were a couple of children screaming and running about so the extra time for footage allowed my actress to be comfortable and relaxed once the children had left the train without having to rush to complete filming.

Unfortunately as it was during the half term, the train station was very busy and it was extremely difficult to get a desired shot of my protagonist standing on the train platform looking isolated and lost from reality as other passengers kept walking in front of the camera blocking my view entirely. So instead I felt that representing her on a calm beach with only her friend worked well. I feel that these shots also work better with my desired effect of the audience seeing from her friends viewpoint.

Initially I had only planned to go to Brighton and film on one day because of expenses and I had planned for my footage to only take a short amount of time. Although the weather forecast was set to be fine, it started raining as we were filming, this made it a lot harder to film as the camera I was using kept shutting off. As a consequence less footage was taken on the sea front. After viewing my footage back when I got home I realized there were some clips that I was unhappy with. I arranged another day when the weather was much better to re shoot some of the footage, this meant having to refer back to my costume, hair and makeup list to ensure my actress looked as she did the previous filming date.

Thankfully it was not raining the second time I filmed on the seafront so I managed to take plenty of footage and because of writing down how my actress was styled there was no problem with continuity. The only problem was that the natural lighting was a lot brighter than before but as I plan to edit the lighting in Serif MoviePlus  to reflect a dreamlike/ flashback state this shouldn't be a problem.