Filming (18/02/2013)

Today was the last day of shooting our thriller. We went out to film the part scene and photograph scene. We asked children to act for us as we needed two main children two be Ivory and Mercy when they were young. The children are in the sequence because in Mercy's dream she has flashbacks of Ivory being bullied as a child. Andreia had gathered some children including her cousin to act in this scene and I had gotten my two siblings to also be actors. We had a range of 9-13 year olds in their school uniforms to make it clear that they are school children. Ivory was dressed in a black coat; hair left out and dark eyeshodow around her eyes to give her a scary look.

We used many camera shots in this park scene to have a choice to pick from when editing our thriller opening. We had mid shots of Mercy and her friends bullying Ivory when they were younger. We also had a close up of the facial expression on Ivory's face when she was left alone; segregated from the rest of the children playing and having fun. After this shot there was a close up of Ivory when she is big to show that she is the same Ivory as the girl who was bullied before. We had a shot where there is a close up of Ivory however a long shot of Mercy and her friends playing; this was used to show the binary opposition of their emotions and actions. We had a pan of all the children bullying Ivory in a circle; the camera shot was from Ivory's point of view as we decided to place the camera in the middle allowing the camera to move in a circle. This scene took the longest to film as we thought we should retake it many times as we were aware that it would be hard to take out the equipment again or gather up all the children again.

After shooting the park scene we took photographs of Ivory and Mercy when they were young and when they were friends so that it could be used in the next scene. After taking these photographs we all went to tesco to choose and print of three of the best photographs which were taken. Throughout this scene an Alevel photography student (Andreia's friend) had taken pictured of the shooting so therefore we were able to have quality pictures of what we were doing.

We then went to Alisha's house (located in Holloway) to film the photograph scene. We took medium shots of Ivory sitting on the floor near a coffee table doing weird things such as clawing the table to make it clear that something is not normal about this character. We had to have close ups and long shots of Ivory crossing; writing and ripping the photograph to foreshadow what Ivory wants which is to destroy/kill Mercy. Esme had a good idea to have a pan going up of the camera filming the photograph up to my face to show my facial expression. I then had an idea to unfocus the camera on purpose while its on record then focus it to show the word 'KILL' on the photograph to make it clear what Ivory's agenda is once again.

We soon finished the filming sequence and then headed back to college to return the equipment on time. All the filming has been finished and the next step was the editing.