Exterior Location: Hextable
- For the fifth shooting day, we travelled to our exterior location in Hextable to shoot Frankie and Lewis' disappearances. We organised to film Harry and Tara’s sequence also, however Tara was unavailable for the time of filming last-minute.
- We started with Frankie at the bus stop. Her character would simply be waiting for a bus before it's implied that she's disappeared. We'd suggest this through use of camera angles and editing.
- We started with a long shot of Frankie to emphasise her isolation and vulnerability showing her role as the victim.
- Contrasting this, we tried close-ups and extreme close-ups of her face to feel intrusive and make the audience feel uncomfortable.
- We had to try various positions and exposure levels as her face appeared too bright and we couldn't see her features. We also had problems with continuity as Frankie was wearing different jewellery so we had to review our footage and just in case there were any significant issues we filmed the same shot again.
- We wanted an eerie POV shot so Amy C tried a handheld shot to appear it's a person creeping around the bus stop. Frankie then rips her earphones out and looks round as if she hears something.
- While this was being filmed, I filmed an establishing shot of the road. This was in order to set the scene and show some sort of normality and equilibrium.
- We moved to the lane to film Lewis as if he was walking down listening to music. We aimed to avoid many shots from Lewis from the front as we had to replace the hoodie he was wearing as we forgot to bring the original on the day.
- We had a long, static shot with Lewis entering the shot and continuing to walk down the lane.
- We tried shots through branches, equivalent to the POV looking at Frankie at the bus-stop. This was quite difficult as we couldn't go the other side of the hedge. Therefore we attempted to place the camera in amongst the twigs so they were in the front of the lens but we could still see the display to know what we were filming.
- As this showed Lewis from afar walking down the lane again, it was not so much of a problem to film the front of his hoodie especially if it's going to be cut short in editing.
- We felt that we needed another POV shot just in case the last didn’t work. We though a handheld POV as if someone was following someone would be effective; even more so as we opted for an extreme close-up of the back of his head before he spins around toward the camera looking like he’s heard someone behind him. This close-up is extremely intrusive and therefore is uncomfortable viewing for the audience. It creates tension, reflecting the atmosphere felt by the characters.
- We tried this a few times as it was difficult to frame Lewis’ head in such a close-up shot as well as trying to keep the same pace when following him.
- We managed to get the shots we wanted fairly quickly therefore it was a successful shooting day.
Daisy Edwards
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