Second Day of Shooting

On Monday we began our second day of shooting, in the morning. We shot all of our cellar scenes, including the flashbacks of the pregnant Elizabeth and the baby. Although we had shot a couple of these scenes before, we wanted to shoot them all in one day so the lighting and camera positions were exactly the same when we needed them to be.


We began by shooting the opening and closing scenes first. We discovered that we needed more light than just from the television, so we found a small lamp to use. This created some great lighting effects with lots of shadows.


Then we filmed the close-ups of the eyes. We had previously had trouble with focusing on the eyes, but we managed to sort this. The shots are actually quite scary, because of the amount of detail you can see!


Once the present day shots had been filmed, we could begin on the flashbacks. First the one of the baby bump, which we decided to change slightly, to make it more interesting. Rather than just have a shot of Elizabeth holding her bump, I was filmed putting up the drawings (which you see in the present day shots) on the wall. Then we asked my dad to appear in the baby scene, where Fritzl takes the baby away from Elizabeth. We used an old toy wrapped in baby blankets for the baby.


After this we didn't have enough time to fill the teenage flashback scenes, as I wouldn't have been able to change and do my make-up in time to start filming again. We decided that we would do this on Friday evening, for the sleepover scene especially.