Filming

Woods/Forest - We decided the location to be a wood area in Histon. This location was really good, the only thing we had a problem with was the clear paths. But we were easily able to avoid these while shooting. We also had problems with house's and open spaces near the woods. We wanted it to seem completely closed off and in the middle of woods. So we were careful not to film in the open spaces and to keep them outside of any of the shots. We also made sure we werent filming in the direction of any house's. Also some of the formation of the trees looked as if it was planted so they looked a bit like a park. So we made sure not to use it too often, but there is a shot were we used it to our advantage and we will cut down the scene. The weather was really good but we are worried that it might have been too bright. Our time was limited because it was freezing and we were worried about our actress. We also had limited time because of bus times but we filmed as much as we could. We did it from lots of different angles and some from different view points. we decided we wanted some shots filmed from the girls view and another of a man watching the girl in the woods. We did this by filming behind different trees and kept the camera following her. We thought if we did this by hand this might make the camera shake and we thought this would be good as it showed how the girl was disoriented. We also wanted to make her foot a main part of it too and show her walking and falling down to show the state shes in. It also shows the contrast as shes wearing shoes as if shes at a party but shes lost in a woods. We had also planned to film her foot for the party scenes too to show her character and to make it clear she is the victim and the main character through out.

Party Scene- Our first location didn't work out the way we hoped it would. So we changed it to film in the black room in college. We found that when we decorated the room with different lights and played music it looked really effective and realistic. We were careful not to get the corners of the room as we wanted it to seem the party was allot bigger. Because we had to change our filming to this we had to change our plot slightly and the sequence of the shots. We decided to make the woods/forest scene our main part and have flashbacks of the party and the girl having a good time. We thought this would be just as effective. We also thought we could keep the music playing through out but do different effects to make it seem like shes got a headache and is really confused but is remembering what happened to her. We were worried about filming a party at college though as we only had a few people that could be in our shot. So we used the same people again and again. We were able to get lots of really good different shots. We got shots of the party people dancing and drinking so it showed the atmosphere of the party. We also got shots of the main characters feet so this could link in with the forest scenes. this would make a really good contrast from her dancing at the party to walking in the woods. We did have problems with lighting and making sure the feet were visual but we were able to bring in a lamp and shine them on the feet. We tried to make sure the camera was focusing on our main character so we made sure that the faces of the extras didn't show very much. We also made sure we filmed the main character drinking and acting like shes drunk or been drugged. We also got a few angles from high above and this looked really effective. We filmed different shots of the girl socializing and dancing with a group of people we thought this might show the personality of the main character.