P19 - FILMING (Day 2 - last day)

The first scene we started filming today was scene 5 where flowers and a card are put on Hannah's grave by her mother. As we didn't check the weather the day before it was extremely wet and muddy so there were issues with that but we managed to find a grave to put the flowers and card on. Though the conditions were a little bad the weather was nice and sunny so we filmed an extra shot - here we filmed a wide shot of the graveyard. 


Excluding filming in the graveyard, today's filming was a lot harder than expected. One of the main issues we had to deal with was costume and prop. For our villain we planned on the actress wearing a hooded cloak but as we couldn't get hold of one we resorted to using a curtain. This was difficult as the material was heavy and really long. However we did make it work in creating our faceless "witch-ghost". 

To make our villain move we planned on creating the effect of the ghost floating so we thought of using a skateboard. However we couldn't get one available for today so instead we used a wheely chair for our actress to kneel on as someone pushed them from behind. This was extremely difficult as the first attempts we tried to do this we couldn't get the chair to move straight towards the camera so we were given the suggestion that the chair should be pulled backwards and when we edit the shot we can reverse it so it looks like the ghost is moving forward. Filming these scenes (scene 3 and scene 4) was time consuming so to get things moving we shortened them by cutting dialogue. 

During filming we improvised on a lot of things, such as dialogue and camera shots. For example, our actress Piah couldn't say a few lines without sounding natural and realistic, so we cut out some lines. This meant that a lot of the filming done with Piah was mostly physical. With the camera shots we experimented with the camera by filming from different angles and positions. For example, one shot we think looked really good was in the scene where Hannah (Piah) runs under the table and we film a shot from the other side at a low angle.    

We did manage to film all of the scenes today and although we had to change and improve a lot of things last minute it did go well in the end.