Filming

On Friday the 7th of November we decided that it would be a good day to begin filming, and so we collected the camera, tripod and tv lead and headed to our location in Pembury. However, when we arrived we realised we had forgotten our tape and so we were unable to film. Although this was a set back, we are now more careful when collecting equipment so that we don't forget anything!

After this problem, we decided to re-set the date of filming for Tuesday the 11th of November. This time we remembered all our equipment and were able to film. We started with the scenes of Nellie and Matt in the playground of Pembury Park acting like a happy couple, and these went really well we thought and we are hoping to use a lot of the footage in our piece. We didnt use the tripod for any of this footage, as we thought the use of the handican would be much more effective, and give a more home - footage style to the shots. We then went to the forest, close to the park and filmed various shots of Matt. Again we didnt use the tripod, we used a handi can effect which is more effective for a horror genre we thought. We filmed Matt walking down an opening in the forest, Matt standing in the opening and Matt from a low angled shot to give a menacing impression. We tried to get all of Matt's scenes done on this day, as he was going away on Thursday and so it would be more convenient this way. However, it began to get dark at about 4pm and it was simply too dark to film, as it was difficult to see on the camera screen. We then realised that to have effective continuity editing, we would have to make sure that shots of Nellie and Matt together in the woods will be in exactly the same settings and of the same light as the already shot scenes of Matt, which may prove difficult.

We hope to film some of Nellie's scenes on Wednesday the 19th of November.