1. Day one Heathrow airport and Northolt hills<br />My group and I had planned to start filming by 4 o’clock but because of traffic delays we ended up meeting at a not so convenient time of 4.45. We decided to film at 4 because we didn’t want the light to be too bright and shiny we were hoping to get a more dim sinister effect with the natural light. Often around 4 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon this was the light effect offered to us. We set off looking around our location to see what interesting elements we could work with. Northolt hill was an option for us because it’s such a diverse place. You have the hills that seem to go on forever, you also have the beige coloured pebble path way, you have the gloom like entrance and various ponds. When you first walk in, the entrance offers a gloomy abandoned looking place which could offer us a range of interesting and daunting shots. We first put down our tripod and turned on our camera and did some experimental shots which came out very good. We climbed one of the hills and used the girl to stand there with her hand spread out horizontally. We asked her to do this to see if we could get a match on action (graphic match) with a catholic cross later on. We then went to the pond and asked the young girl Lucy to stand near the edge, we then asked Eleanor to act worried and look for her, when she found her near the pond we paused the camera and got Lucy to pretend to disappear, later on in editing we intended to fix up the rough edges. Because of the late start we were left in a predicament, we had to finish early because we were running out of natural light and as were working with children it was only appropriate that we go home and start again on a more suitable day. On our way out there was a tunnel and one of the lights were broken, so the lights would turn on and off in an unusual way we decided to use this to the best of our advantage and we got a very interesting shot of it so over all everything it came out very well.<br />Day two - Beacon centre and Valerie’s house<br />My group and I started at an earlier time of 1.00 o’clock in the afternoon natural light wasn’t much of an issue as we were mostly working inside. I had previously written to the owner of my local centre ‘the Beacon’ if I could film there for my AS media project he gave us his permission so we were all sorted to start filming. When we arrived we saw that some of the staff were on their break and even got them to participate. After our first day of filming we were much more experienced and got filming straight away. On this day we filmed the adoption process, the beacon was a good location especially as we were low on funds, the mis-en-scene may not have looked like a child environment but as it looked clean and classy and were only filming in the entrance it worked very well. As filming went got underway very quickly we had some more time to start filming in our third location, my house which was only down the road from the beacon which would allow us more time focusing on editing later on. We started filming outside my gate of Eleanor, Lucy and Joanna just walking into my house through my gate and into the front door. Because of the extra time we experimented with different shots and camera angles to see if we could create anything more interesting than we intended to. These different shots came out very well and we had a lot different options to choose from.<br />Day three graveyard and Valerie’s house<br />On day one as we drove to Heathrow we were very observant as there could have been locations which we’d never spontaneously think or consider but there were locations some locations which caught our eyes as we were travelling. One location was actually the entrance to the South harrow graveyard it had a very historic look to it and we thought it would appeal to our movie concept. We filmed some shots of the entrance of the grave yard but because of the bad weather conditions and the fact we were working with children we quickly sped up the process and went to my house. A house is always good to film in when it comes to a thriller; it offers many of the codes and conventions. E.g. stairs and mirrors, we filmed from outside the house to the top of the window doing a high angle shot. Then went into the house and filmed a variation of different shots which came out very well, we experimented all over the house from the bedrooms to the bathrooms. <br />