We all went over to Yuden's house to film both the bathroom scene and the home scene in which Yuden's character and her boyfriend would be having a normal night in, then it would glitch to her being beaten up by the boyfriend. This worked really well, as Yuden didn't mind being thrown around a lot, making it look really realistic. We did have a problem with time, as the battery for the camera ran down really quickly and no one (I) forgot bring another one. Still, we managed to get all the footage we needed and most of it looked really good and realistic.
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Deciding that Lara's house was too much like a house to appear as an office, we asked our school if we could use the interview room, which is more formal, but still quite calm. We had several problems here, as the set up of it meant we had to move a load of the chairs, the table, and frame it so that we don't see the stuff on the walls, which would give and indication of it being in a school. We tried to open the blinds as well, as they have the school logo on them, but it looked much worse when we did. I had to angle the camera so we only saw Navid and Yuden.
We also tried to get Yuden to cry, similar to the scene in Get Out, which proved difficult to film, as either we couldn't time the filming right and get the tear, or Yuden couldn't get herself to cry. We got the footage, but we're not sure how good it is. For the third time, we went out to film the running scene. We wanted it to be perfect, focused on Yuden all the way through and have the screen go black when she gets close enough. Utilising a bigger lense to zoom in much closer, Yuden didn't have to get so close to the camera before the screen went dark. It took more tries than expected, as focusing on Yuden throughout the shot was really quite hard. We thought we might have to chose between keeping focus on Yuden far away, or focusing on her when she's close, so when she's running, she will gain focus by the time the screen goes black. One idea that Yuden had was to film a scene in which she would be sitting in a bathtub, fully dressed all formal and drinking something, then that would smash and she'd fall into the water. It would be a cool shot to keep coming back to in the trailer, so Yuden and I went to her house, chose a dress for her to wear and we had some red food colouring to make it look like she's drinking wine. Filming was difficult due to the shots we wanted, we couldn't use the tripod all the time, so I had to try and keep the camera as still as possible when recording. The footage, however, looked really cool, with Yuden being able to keep her eyes open under water. We thought that would also look really cool as a poster, so we tried to take a picture, but struggled to focus it on Yuden's face. We'll have to try again some other time.
Yuden had this other idea of filming a shot in which she would look really bad and be playing with a lighter, contrasting with some of the brighter scenes we had and being a nice transition between the running scene onwards as, when she runs in front of the camera, the screen goes black. She filmed it at her house, doing it many times, differently, then we chose to use the most in focus and the ones that looked the coolest. There was one shot where she blew out the lighter quite violently, which worked either as an end for the trailer, or as a freaky transition.
We went out to film the park scene with Durum, the boyfriend in the film. In this scene, we have a cute bit where the couple are playing on the swings, then it cuts to Yuden panicking. The scene went well, with even the weather helping as it was really sunny while we filmed the bit with Durum, then a little less so when we filmed the panicking bit. We also added some more shots in, like some from behind, which looked quite cool, as the sun silhouetted Durum and Yuden. One shot that was a little more difficult to get was the one where we wanted to get just the swing on it's own. We couldn't time it properly while it was swinging and film it. Yuden decided to do it herself, running between getting the swing moving and pressing record, which seemed to work better than when we all tried to do it and move out of frame.
We chose try and film the Therapist's Office scene in Lara's house, but it did look too much like a living room instead of an office. The footage wasn't all that good either because we didn't have a lot of time to film. We are thinking of using our Headteacher's office, but that is quite messy and looks too much like a boardroom, or the interview room which is more comfortable but not too relaxed.
We went out to film the park scene, this time with Yuden wearing her proper costume, which we decided on as she looks pretty crazy, running half naked in a field when it's really cold. We've tried filming this a few times, however it hasn't looked that good, due to the ending. We can't get the right kind of ending, whether Yuden should run off to the side like in Get Out, or keep running past the camera so it look like she crashes into it. If we choose the latter, we can't get her close enough to the camera to make it look as though she crashes into it. To combat this, we've tried to use another lens, but we weren't zoomed in on the right place, we could see her face and it got blurry the closer she was. It would look better if we were zoomed in on her clothes, so it would create almost like a blackout to transition into the next scene. If we do not get a chance to film that again, the footage we got is good enough.
We filmed the proper classroom scene with a whole class. It was difficult to get a lot of people that would film for us and trying to organise everyone, but we managed to get a lot of footage. We filmed using Ilsa, making the tracking shots very smooth as we used her electric wheelchair. We did have to get two different groups of people, because a lot of the original load left as we couldn't film as our whole group wasn't there, but once all of us arrived, there were enough people to make the classroom look full. A big problem with the footage we get was that we had to do one continuous shot and move the class to the back of the room, which we didn't realise we could see in the refection of the whiteboard. It means we are going to to have to edit it so that is not so obvious.
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