Gothic film - 11th dec - Second day of filming

Today was our second and last day of filming and there is only one word that can describe my feelings for the day…COLD!!!! It was extremely cold and foggy and I found it very hard to work in the conditions that we were given. However, I gritted my teeth and got on with it to create what we hope to be a good gothic film of bath in the end. The last week jack had spent trying to get permission for the places we did not have permission to film in yet. These were Victoria Park near the Royal crescent, Southgate and also Sydney Gardens. We were able to get permission for the Circus the week before but didn’t manage to get up there until the second day of filming. We managed to get the permission we needed for Victoria Park and Southgate but we did not get permission for Sydney Gardens, which meant we were unable to achieve doing our shot there. We did however achieve the filming in Victoria Park, The Circus and Southgate.

Our first location was Victoria Park and we did about 5 shots of me running around the lawn in front of the crescent looking for my love. It was ever so cold and very wet and my feet went numb but I knew we had to achieve the shot. I trust Daisy and Jack’s knowledge about the camera and hope that they thought I achieved the right affect.

Our second location was The Circus. This shot would consist of me sitting in the middle of The Circus having almost given up on trying to find my long lost love. At this point I was seriously being affect by the cold and couldn’t feel my feet which meant I had a hard job acting the way I should have been because my thoughts were so fixed on how freezing I was. I assume we achieved the shot but I haven’t looked back on any of them as we were working to a very tight schedule.

Our third and final location was Southgate, outside of the shop Republic. We had to go into Republic to begin with and ask the supervisor if it was ok to film outside of the shop. He had to ask lots of different questions about what we were doing and what we were trying to achieve and then he gave us the permission we needed to do our last shot. It was an over shoulder (my shoulder) shot of my love ‘seeing’ me in the modern day and us passing each other in Southgate. The film ends on a cliffhanger and therefore has no real conclusion to the story. Our next step is to try and make it black and white and work out what we need to write in our dialogue boxes

Gothic film - 4th december - the day of the filming

Today was the day we were going to start to film our Gothic films. We had an introduction to the cameras by Sara and Chris (the cameraman) until 11 and learned a lot about how to achieve different affects and different ways to use the camera to our benefit. At 11 o'clock we were allowed to prepare and set off to our first location. Preparing for us was just me getting into costume this consisted of, a red dress, a black top hat fascinator and lots of black eyeliner. Our first location was at Walcott street steps. At this location we took three shots of me running up and down the stairs and also an alternative shot of me walking past a decorative wall. Sara taught us a lot about direction and also a lot about how to position the camera to achieve the best possible shot.

We then went to our second location alone, this was Laura place fountain. At this location I was going to sit on the side of the fountain and look around for my lost love. During the setting up of the scene Daisy came up with the idea that I sit on top of the fountain to make me look more ghost like. It would make me look more ghost like because I am able to get into wierd and wonderful locations and positions. This was my favourite shot to do but also at the same time was very embarrassing.

Our third location was at Helting close near Bath spa. At this location we filmed two of our shots. this was the hardest shot to film as it was a shot of me and my long lost love in the past together. Jack played the man in the scene and we found it hard to connect and look like a proper couple in the shot. We ended up doing the shot about 6 times to try and achieve a believable shot. Another problem we had were the cars in the background as it had to be made to look authentic and past like.

Our final location of the day was the tunnel at the railway station. We had to sign in and then we were free to use the tunnel as much as we liked. The shot was just a shot of me running through the tunnel looking for my love. We encountered a couple of problems during the filming of this shot. The first was the fact that the tunnel was very dark and because it was at 3.30 in the afternoon the street lights were on which created a very orangey background light. This is definitely a problem for our group as we had to make sure there was no red or orange colours in our shot. This may become problem when we edit our film later on.