Evaluation of Day 3 filming

Day 3 of filming was the scenes at Justine’s house in the dark room, when we arrived we had to clear out her outhouse and stick newspaper over the window. We then lay newspaper over the floor and placed photos on the walls; all this was to create the correct tone of mise en scene. We were now ready to start shooting, the first shot was a hand held close up, moving over the photos on the wall, and this shows the audience all the girls that, have been, are being or is going to be kidnapped. We shot this 3 times, as we wanted to get the shot perfect, the shot was a point of view shot from our psycho. We then moved on to shooting our psycho cutting up photos of his next victim, this is a close up of his hands and photos, this caused us trouble as we did not possess the correct type of scissors, so we had to angle the camera in a way that did not show the entire pair of scissors.
The following shot was of our psycho carrying our protagonist into the room and placing her in the corner on a previous kidnapped girl. The problems with this shot was that we had to make the placing of our protagonist look realistic without hurting our actor, every time we attempted to place her down, we either banged her head on the wall or dumped her down on the other girl in a ruff manner which would cause the kidnapped girl to flinch. We did manger to get a successful shot in the end but it was clearly the toughest shot of the day.
When filming the scene where he carries her in we demonstrated a match on action shot as well as numerous point of view shots to try and create an eerie realism feel. As we were shooting inside on day 3 we did not have to consider the weather to such extent, however we were lucky that it was a gloomy day, as this abled us to show the window within one of our shots without it being too bright all this contributed to the mise en scene of our production and helped us set the tone.
If given the opportunity to re-shoot day 3, we would have organised our equipment better and would gather more photo’s to stick up as we had a limited supply. Overall the days shooting were a success and we have retrieved a wide variety of professional styled shots/scenes. We will now start editing our shots together to create our short film.