Filming Session Three

This filming session we were able to do a variety of scenes, some of them were random and others were planned.
When we were traveling to our filming sites we decided to take the opportunity to film Emma and Rhys (the love object) together, holding hands, laughing etc typical features of a loved up couple. We did this so we could maybe use the footage in our video to fill in empty spaces or to use as flash backs. We used a hand held tracking shots for these clips so that it gave a sense of the past as it was not planned, not like the revenge she's planning. Hand held shots are also used to give a sense of realism, this we could use to effect because by the realism we can create sympathy for our protagonist when then it switches to shot of the love object with the antagonist.

When it came to editing these bits we increased the saturation to give warmer tones to the footage so that it gave a summer love atmosphere which we want to create when we see shots of the protagonist and the love object together. To fit this in to the video we used jump cuts to show the flashback as we wanted to make the  audience aware there are temporal leaps in the text.

The first planned scenes of the day was a situation where in the narrative Emma is walking down the street, she looks of in to the distance where she spots something, we would then in the editing cut to what she's looking at so the audience know what's caught her attention. In the car was Rhys and Amy (the antagonist). We would then cut back to Emma who would walk in to a lamppost because her attention is on the car with Rhys and Amy in it. I attempted some human dolly tracking shots of Rhys and Amy in the car to use in our video, however this proved to be difficult as i'm trying to keeping the camera steady whilst walking fast enough to keep up with a car. We felt this part of the filming had gone well as we got a variety of of shots.

The next scene we needed to film was at a location called Ray lodge park. For this part we recorded Rhys and Emma together acting out their harmonious relationship so we could use a montage of flashbacks.

When we arrived back at school we carried out even more filming, however this time it was quite spontaneous. We saw an old chair and a pile of rubbish and thought it may be useful to film here as the mise-en-scene could be interpreted to reflect the the mood of the character, confused and anger which is reflected in the mess and destruction of the scene. We used Emma to lipsync a few lines here and act in a particularly crazy/mad way to emphasize the preferred reading.