Filming - Our first day!

Last night, we all met up and began our film. We were all both excited and nervous as we did not know what to expect. We headed for Enfield Town park as night fell (around 17:45) and began to set up. Our actors were all in costume and rearing to go! We filmed all of the outside scenes including the park where the rapist first See's the 'ballerina' and also the last scene where he will begin his process (stalking) again with a new girl. I think the only hard part about filming in the night is the lighting.. as as it got later, it also got a lot darker, resulting into us changing the scene slightly, to me (the ballerina) walking past Billy (the rapist) in a pathway where there was limited but effective light source. We took pictures of our costumes to keep the continuity each day we filmed.

Me - "The Ballerina"

- Black jazz shoes, with black leggings and black leg warmers. Crop top with a lace over layer, and a coat for her outdoor scenes.

We had a slight problem with trying to find the exact costume the music box ballerina wore, and so improvised with what we already had and made the dancer into a more contemporary dancer for later scenes in the dance studio.
hair - curly.

make up - natural.

Billy Jarvis - "The Killer"

-Jeans with black shoes and a black coat. He will only wear dull colours to fit in with the darkness of the sky as a typical "stalker" in horror films would do.
-He also has a bag around him, which he may be hiding possible things to attack her with.
-He also will be wearing black gloves when winding up the music box in other scenes.

The first scene we filmed was actually our last scene, as it was only just getting dark and so we wanted to change the scene a little instead of Sophie walking past at around the same kind of time. This scene was Sophie walking past the "killer" as if she is his next victim. We filmed this from all the different angles by the river in town park. The different shots we used was wide shot, a shot from behind and in front, and an extreme close up on the "killers" eyes and mouth.

As we was shooting at night, we turned the camera onto 'night mode' as when we looked it looked a lot scarier, more realistic, and a lot clearer to see. We just hope that it comes out as effective as we want when we edit it in iMovie.


Night was fast approaching and within an hour it seemed to dark to film the first scene (the main actress) walking past Billy. We decided to maybe come back and film it another day, when as we was walking to the next location, we saw a pathway with limited but effective light source. This old alleyway lamp gave off an orange effect making the scene feel wiry and scary. This worked like a treat as we were able to see our faces a lot clearer and it also made the film seem m0re effective as we were not just shooting in the same places.


We could see the moon so clearly in the sky so we thought we might as well film a weather shot and slot it into our film somehow. This shot of the moon was amazing and looked really effective as you could see the moon from a tree with branches sticking out. We also then thought about panning it down and seeing the reflection of the moon in the water ripples which we thought looked really effective.


After this we went into Esporta Leisure Centre and asked them if we could film the outside of their building as the steps looked like it could belong to a ballet studio. To our great luck they allowed us to film the outside, so we got cracking and started filming myself walking out and down the steps. We used different shots to film this; Wide Shots from across the road, along with Extreme Close Ups of my feet walking down the steps and panned across me walking away, down an alley. This then gave us the idea of keeping the continuity of the film as we filmed me walking down a road, from behind, in front and an extreme close up of her feet kicking the leaves and even a hand held shot only focusing down on my feet and my footsteps.


After this we filmed Enfield Town bridge. This shot needed great timing and communication between the actors and the directors. As we had myself running across the bridge one way and Billy, the "killer" running underneath it the other way, the directors had to stay in touch on phones to tell Billy and I when to go or not. We also had to be extra careful and time it right, as Billy was running across a road, so we timed it when the cars were stopped by the traffic lights. Ive not yet seen this shot, but the girls said it looked fantastic as Billy and I both meet at exactly the right point in the middle of the bridge. The lights from the bridge gave us enough light and you could easily see the two silhouettes of both actors running from the different directions who met in the centre exactly.




After this we filmed an alley way for our final shot of the day. This shot was of myself walking down a dark alley whilst being followed by Billy shortly after. We filmed this shot from loads of different angles giving us different shots. We filmed myself walking towards the camera, then panning around the corner. We filmed from behind her. We filmed her walking past the camera, and finally we filmed from sitting on a wall to produce a high angle shot. This shot will make the ballerina seem vulnerable and unaware seeing as she is the victim in this film.



Last nights filming was so enjoyable, I absolutely loved it and cant wait to film some more today!
I think we all realised how much preparation is needed and how time consuming it is! It was a very long night which seemed like forever, but got the shots we wanted so everyone happy! We still have more shots to film, and although we have already filed 10 minutes, which is well over 2, we thought it is better to have more than needed so we can play with it at the end and see which works best!