Production Diary - Filming

When planning my experimental video i firstly thought up a concept which was drugs and how they poison your mind not only your body and how the drug world is a vicious circle.

Day 1-On the first day of filming i was in my friend Lizzi's house and we filmed the scene that was eventually slowed down in post production of her falling down on the floor this shot took about ten attempts before finally getting one that i knew would work in post production. After this shot i filmed Lizzi smoking a cigarette and blowing out the smoke, i wanted this shot to be the most eerie and cold so i tyred lots of different locations for lighting in her house and outfits for her and eventually i got the shot and was very happy with it. I planned to get all the shots done in one day however i under estimated how difficult those two shots were to get and so i got to dark to film so i decided to film the following Saturday as well.

Day 2-The second day of filming was planned to be outside when the day came there was gale force winds and thunder and lightning so we had to wait for a very long time for the weather to settle and then we went out. The first shot i wanted to get was down a little alleyway in singleton just of Lizzi's feet running we got that shot after a few attempts because the tripod was being blown and the camera couldn't hold still this ended up to be one of my favourite shots. The second shot i got was of Lizzi running holding the camera herself pointing at her face this shot went well apart from i would of liked more of her face and not just trees but we couldn't do shot again because the camera would have got wet. Third shot of was Lizzi hand in face screaming and then crouching down i was happy with this shot after it had been edited. The next shot was of Lizzi walking by the road she had to walk extremely slow because it was speed ed up quite a fair amount in post production when i was finished with this shot i absolutely loved it. The last shot i had to get i had to wait till it was dark and go back inside Lizzi's house, this shot i knew i would use as my opening one i wanted to do an ECU of Lizzi's face of her crying i turned out all the lights so it was pitch black in the room and used a candle as my only form of light she put candle underneath her face and it looked really good because it lit up half her face and not the other. This shot did not turn out anything like i planned it to be, however, it was miles better than i planned it to be that is why i have used it in the beginning and end of my piece because i think it is the most power full and eiry shot i was very happy with how the filming went on day two allot better than the first day the only slight problem was the weather but that turned OK in the end.