What happened on day 2 of filming.

1. DIARY OF A DAY OF
SHOOTING – DAY TWO
Wednesday 27th March 2013

2. HERE WE GO AGAIN
With a new plan on what we were doing and a much condensed
script, we were ready to start over. We have kept all the footage from
last time, mainly for the bloopers, but we were also content with what
we had filmed inside Rosie’s house. So we got a lift with Rosie’s older
sister to her house so we could re-apply make-up and I could change
into my costume.

3. ROSIE’S HOUSE
Sam felt an establishing shot of Rosie’s house would be another good
flashback so we added me walking to the house. It was at this point I
realised I was missing my jogging bottoms. I thought about rushing
back to mine, it wasn’t too far to walk, but as we planned on making
the flashback scenes black and white we didn’t think it would make a
difference. So we shot the establishing scene and then we got a lift to
my house so I could get into my jogging bottoms.

4. RETURNING TO THE PLAYGROUND
We were back at the playground
ready to re-film. On the way there,
Rosie’s older brother suggested we
should have more than just two
locations. Rosie and I didn’t agree
but Sam proposed we use the
street leading to the playground. It
was an excellent idea and gave us
the opportunity to get in more
shots and help establish the setting.

5. LEADING UP TO THE PLAYGROUND
We started from me walking round the pathway from Sainsbury’s and
make my way to the playground in four parts. The first part was a tad
bit annoying because we had to keep stopping for other people to
pass by. Then Sam moaned at me for not being able to walk straight
when I focused the camera on my trainers while walking. I also had a
bit of fun messing around a little because we had plenty of battery
this time around and wanted some bloopers.

6. THE SEESAW
We were back in the playground. After a panning
establishing shot of the playground we came to the
conflict between the two personalities. Last time I sat on
the right and presented the two personalities by what
angle I was looking at the camera. We thought it would be
better to have the antagonist one end and protagonist the
other. It made sense to have the antagonist on the left
because it was closest to the fence and I was approaching
the opposite end. So it would look natural to approach
the right side and sit down to face my antagonistic
personality.
The seesaw, where the antagonist sits on
the left and protagonist sits on the right.

7. PROTAGONIST VS. ANTAGONIST
We did what we did last time, film each individual line so we could piece them together later
on in chronological order. We started with the antagonist’s lines. I wanted to get the mask bit
out of the way as it limited my ability to breathe properly. I also thought this time around I
should keep my hood up. This is so that when the mask was off, the audience would still be
able to differentiate between the two personalities.
Also this time around we had cut down on the dialogue so there was less to film. We also
thought it was best to take multiple shots of each line of dialogue so we had a range to
choose from.
It was at this point that I really wanted to make our plot believable…

8. MY ACTING
Whilst I was fully aware I would not be receiving any marks for acting, I
really wanted to put in effort. People who saw my prelim responded
positively to my acting in it and I was pleasantly surprised as I wasn’t
trying that hard to act. So I wanted to do the same with our actual thriller
opening and hopefully improve upon my acting ability. Furthermore, a
good attempt at acting would help make our opening more believable as
well as help establish the plot and reveal characteristics about the
characters. Plus it was a lot of fun!

9. HOW I PRESENTED THE
CHARACTERS
Protagonist: I put on a fairly high-pitched voice to make me sound really
child-like. That child-like voice made me appear very vulnerable, harmless,
clueless and innocent. I also tried screwing my face up from time to time
to show my character’s confusion.
Antagonist: I used a much more aggressive tone of voice to create the
impression to the audience that the antagonist is sinister, malevolent,
creepy and heartless. I also made myself look confident to show that the
antagonist was in control.

10. WE WERE NOW READY TO EDIT!
It was freezing cold, our hands were hurting, Sam couldn’t stop complaining about
his toes being frozen and our faces were going red. It was painful getting through
the last few shots but we did it! Rosie went off for her job training and me and Sam
went into a kebab shop to get out of the cold while we waited for my mum to come
pick us up. She picked us up and we went to get a Domino’s Pizza, where we would
get a 50% discount due to me being an employee! After receiving our “Mighty Meaty”
and sides, we went to my house and ate our hot fresh pizza. Honestly, it was
perhaps the BEST pizza I have EVER had!
Then we arranged a day for Sam to come over because…
FINALLY! FINISHED!