Wednesday 16 March 2011

Monday - Our Final Day of Filming

On Monday we filmed our final scenes for the opening of our film! These scenes were the two featuring the teenage Elisabeth. We also chose to re-film the flashbacks featuring pregnant Elisabeth and the taking of the baby. This is because when we watched back our takes of these scenes, they didn't look as effective as they could. So, we thought we could come up with different ways to shoot them.

First, we went to Alex's house to film the teenage scenes. Our friend (another Alice) came over as well, to appear as an extra in the scene. Georgie would be filming this scene, so Alice, Alex and myself changed into old, plain pyjamas.

We hadn't decided what kind of set-up we wanted for the sleepover scene, as we didn't know what would work best in Alex's bedroom. Trying lots of different angles helped us choose which would work best. We started off with a high angle shot of Elisabeth facing slightly away from the other two girls. Then, we tried a medium shot of Elisabeth in the foreground, sitting on the edge of the bed and the other two girl laughing in the background, slightly out of focus. We thought this would emphasise Elisabeth's isolation from normal teenage life and it worked really well! The lighting in the room was also high key, which is strongly juxtaposed with the darkness of the cellar.

We then moved downstairs to film the other teenage scene. This was shot in the same location as one of the young Elisabeth scenes, which ties together the flashbacks. This was shot from a medium shot, showing me sitting on the windowsill. The light through the window created a really nice silhouette effect.

Once we had finished filming at Alex's we walked back to my house with the equipment to film the two baby scenes. This time we decided that in the scene where Fritzl takes the baby, Elisabeth can be asleep. This meant that we could use an interesting angle for the shot and put the camera on the floor. This time, as only the arms would be seen, Alex played Fritzl; unfortunatley my dad was away for work. The shots turned out to work really well.

Then, we were able to film the preganant scene. Rather than standing, I sat down with the baby bump. This made it more obvious that I was pregnant and not just overweight!

Before and After videos to come...

We were really pleased with all the scenes we shot, so we have finished filming! Next we need to begin editing our footage and adding in titles.

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