4th December 2012: 6pm - 11.30pm
Crew: Myself, Leon, Hannah B, Jen and Jacob
This night of filming started out to be a bit of a disaster. We had planned to begin filming at 6pm, however, I had a text from Fiona to tell me that her car had broken down. As she is from Doncaster, she needed this to get to the train station in order to get to Sheffield. She said that she would be there for 7 so we waited for her and I went through the shot lists with everyone to ensure they all agreed with what I had put. Another text from Fiona then stated that her card wouldn't work so she couldn't get on the train. None the less, she made it at 8.30pm. Because of the late arrival, we had very limited time to film the scenes we wanted as her last train was at 11.45pm. This put a lot of stress on us all.
The scene filmed was the 'underpass section'. This is a scene where Lola is confronted with three boys whom steal her scarf and mock her. Ideally, I wanted Lola to have a bear throughout the film, and this scene originally presented them taking her teddy (whom she often talked to). However, due to some lack of organisation the bear wasn't got for filming and so I had to re-think a lot of the script as I went along.
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| Frame from Underpass sequence. |
The actors used in this section were three of Leon's friends. Because the producer had not been able to find any 'proffesional' actors, I was happy to have anyone that could complete the task at hand. However, because they weren't 'cast' until so late, I was unable to give them a copy of the script, and so when I met with them, I asked them to improvise as I thought this would give the most natural look and cause less stress. I wanted to try this suggestion first and if they weren't comfortable, I would have spent time going through it in greater detail with them. However, after explaining the scene and what they needed to do, they did very well considering they had no experience. It took a couple of takes but I think we gained the footage I wanted.
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| Example of the problems we had with lighting. |
Another problem we had when filming was definitely the lighting. When filming it didn't appear too bad on the camera viewfinder, however, once uploaded on the computer, it was very grainy. Despite this, I did want the scene to be scary and use the darkness to highlight Lola's fears of the night.
Once we had filmed the underpass sequence, we went back to Hannah B's house to film the indoor sequence. This was for the first scene where Lola is reading her book and decides to go and find the park in her story. Jen had found a good selection of books with examples of parks within them and this gave us a good starting point.
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| Frame from indoor sequence. |
When it came to filming indoors, Leon's camera appeared very misty and because of the limited time we already had, I had to have Jacob quickly drive me to my house and back to get mine. We were so rushed for time filming this sequence that I think it could have gone much better, however, this was the only time we had to film it and for the time we had, I think we did well. A particular shot I like from this scene is of Lola as she walks out of the house and closes the door behind us. I strategically placed the light behind her for this section as it displayed a nice sillhouette. We used shadows a lot for this scene, particularly when she puts her scarf on, and the shadow is shown on the wall behind her.
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| Frame demonstrating the use of shadows. |
Overall, I would have liked to have more time to film these scenes, but given what we had and the fact we completed everything, I think we all did really well.
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| Shot list for scenes 1 and 5 filmed on 04/12 |
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