Day1: Filming

During our first day of filming we filmed at Alderly Edge.

I had the responsibility of makeup and costume, individually I had to ensure that it was just how we planned and looked how we wanted it to look when filming.

We had also planned to share all of the filming equally. This is how it ended up happening. During this time filming, I feel Charlotte was the main director and I made sure every shot, like our long shots, were perfect. Both Lucy and Sophie did the same and we all followed the things everyone was saying.

 

In terms of getting the perfect setting we all made sure everyone was happy with the area in which we were filming. I really wanted it to look like the forest never ended which I feel we did achieve.

In order to get the perfect match on action all of us filmed from different angles to create close ups to head and shoulder shots of the same scene. Each of us had an idea of which shot to film but we always confirmed with the group before filming.

We filmed in the daylight in order to get the best quality of filming, we also did this so it would give us shots which would be easy to darken in saturation to make it appear as if it was darker.

 

In terms of directing the actor I feel Sophie and I stood out in this case. We all knew what we wanted to create in each shot so it only took a couple of us to direct the actor in a certain direction. If we didnt feel like the shot was good enough we would re take it, however, because we had prepared so much for this day this did not happen too often. We re took a couple shots but when we did so we'd do it straight after so everything would flow, we stayed focused and on schedule.

 

We felt that the filming went very successful and we filmed everything we planned to. Each of us had a our roles in which sometimes would rotate.  The only problems we really had was our mobile phones, which we were filming on, ran out of battery. However, we worked around this as there was four people in our group.

As a group we also agreed that we may need to go back if there is any footage we missed or want to add during the process of editing the footage.

This is some raw footage from our first day of filming: