We chose to film on Saturday 19th March and met up in Ongar. Our day started off a bit late as me, Christian and Tom were at the meeting point at 11am, whereas George woke up a bit late and didn’t meet up with us till 11:30. After the small delay, we went off and George then realised he forgot one of the main props, which was his watch. We also then realised that the main prop of the entire film that we needed was the knife, which I wasn't prepared to bring as I didnt want to carry it around, incase we got stopped. Which meant that George had to go out of his way in order to get a knife, this took up alot of time however, once we had that, we started filming, and at first, it was hard to actually know where to start. Our first shot we think will be George walking quite anxiously and he keeps looking at his watch. At first, we had to do this shot around 3-4 times as we had a few problems with the tape in the camera. We then went on to film our next shots and a couple of times we changed the location of the shots. This was because as we were filming, we came across good locations as we walked past them. Once we had finished filming in the location we went back to the high street and got some food. By the time we finished lunch, it was around 2:00.
We then went to our next location which was around 10 minutes away. It was quite hard to film in this location because it was close to the public and our man prop was a knife. We had to cover the knife in red paint to look like blood. On top of this location being near the open, houses looked onto our location also. We had to have someone in a ditch with a black bag over their head, and then someone with a knife. It didn’t look like a film from someone who didn’t know what was going on, so we had to film this part quite fast.
Once we finished the 'dippers' location, we then moved onto the abandoned barn which was on private land, so we had to be careful in this location also. We found a really good spot in the barn as there was barbed wire all around and it looked quite menacing. We only took one of take of this and if when I edit it, it looks quite bad, we will have to redo this location. It wasn’t really hard to get to, it’s just the fact that its private land so if we do have to go back there, we will have to make it quick again.
We then moved along to the derelict swimming pool which was a good location as the fact that it was falling down and derelict, made it fit the genre perfectly. This location took quite a while to get right as in the three flashbacks, we didn’t want them to be repetitive and so we had to change what the murderer was doing.
Overall it was a really successful first shoot, but we do need to go back to Ongar to finish off our last location of the concrete room of George waking up after he had blacked out. We also may need to do a few more retakes of some of our shots in case they aren’t very effective.
By Charlie Head
We then went to our next location which was around 10 minutes away. It was quite hard to film in this location because it was close to the public and our man prop was a knife. We had to cover the knife in red paint to look like blood. On top of this location being near the open, houses looked onto our location also. We had to have someone in a ditch with a black bag over their head, and then someone with a knife. It didn’t look like a film from someone who didn’t know what was going on, so we had to film this part quite fast.
Once we finished the 'dippers' location, we then moved onto the abandoned barn which was on private land, so we had to be careful in this location also. We found a really good spot in the barn as there was barbed wire all around and it looked quite menacing. We only took one of take of this and if when I edit it, it looks quite bad, we will have to redo this location. It wasn’t really hard to get to, it’s just the fact that its private land so if we do have to go back there, we will have to make it quick again.
We then moved along to the derelict swimming pool which was a good location as the fact that it was falling down and derelict, made it fit the genre perfectly. This location took quite a while to get right as in the three flashbacks, we didn’t want them to be repetitive and so we had to change what the murderer was doing.
Overall it was a really successful first shoot, but we do need to go back to Ongar to finish off our last location of the concrete room of George waking up after he had blacked out. We also may need to do a few more retakes of some of our shots in case they aren’t very effective.
By Charlie Head
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