Filming Day

We filmed on the 19th of March 2018, and although we found that the filming went quite successfully, we definitely ran over time. We had planned to film from 3pm to 9pm, but it all started late (roughly around 4pm) as we arrived at the park location realising we had forgotten the SD card for the camera, easy mistake, but it set us back by a lot of time as we had to go and get it in order to film.  The outdoor scenes went very well - we had multiple versions of shots which were really useful in editing as we got all of these shots perfect. 

We decided to have Poppy chasing after a dog to make her seem a bit more simple and strange - we figured that this would be a funny touch to the film and this was possible for us because we were chatting to a woman with lively dog and she consented for us to film the dog with the character of Poppy.

We were quite proactive in using our resources and we had to come up with new ideas on how to heighten the tripod so that we could film over the shoulder shots of Bobby whilst he was standing - this was difficult because our actor is 6"2 and our tripod was quite small in height. To combat this issue, we placed our tripod on top of boxes that Eimir had in her house, which allowed us to achieve the shots we had wanted.

During the filming of the outdoor scenes, we found that we filmed these quite slowly and wasted a lot of time by getting distracted rather than focusing on our time schedule. Although we followed the shooting schedule very closely, meaning that we shot all of our shots in the correct order and took multiple shots of each shot we needed to take, to ensure that we had backup shots incase some had mistakes/faults; however, this caused us to end up further back on our time schedule, leaving us with much less time to film our main scenes such as the date scene and the killing scene. We found that this tight time schedule for the final scenes caused us to discard the shooting schedule and we filmed based on the script, leaving out shots that we didn't think were majorly important - which backfired when it came to editing as we were missing lots of filler shots and important shots which would've improved our film. We also found that there were lots of continuity errors in our shots because the filming was so rushed, and we didn't have many repeat shots so if our shots had mistakes we had no other option but to use them.

One major continuity error that we noticed was that the accents of our actors changed between the previous scenes and the main date scene - meaning we would have to refilm. However, this was slightly convenient for us because we wanted to refilm the date scene and the killing scene anyway, so this was an easy fix for us because the accent change only happened in these scenes.

We also attempted handheld shots in these scenes and they didn't turn out how we had wanted them to - so we wanted to refilm these as well and use a tripod. Luckily, our scene of Poppy pouring the poison was still perfect from the first filming, so this didn't need to be reshot.

We were prepared with props on the day of filming, and during filming some scenes we decided to split the crew up and have 2 people filming scenes and one person making the blood, the pasta and changing the photo frames to have our pictures in them; this worked for us as it allowed us to multitask so we could get more filming done and waste less time on preparing props. We rotated between roles so that one person wasn't being stuck on preparing props, usually rotating the roles between Eimir and myself so that we both got to take control of filming.