24/02/12Filming shots 1,2,3: Establishing Shot from corridor

While filming we decided we had to keep the doors open at the end of the corridor to allow enough light through to the cameraand showing only the silhouette of Christina. This gave a good eerie effect as the camera could not capture the detail of her face or clothing until she got closer to the camera. This allowed the audience to only view her outline as a figure.

It was difficult to get the right amount of light through to the camera as we wanted to keep the space dark and dim but with still enough light to shoot the scene. Not only this but we had a problem with the cleaners coming in and out of the rooms and turningon lights which caused a problem with the lighting coming from different areas. To overcome this problem we had to wait a bitlonger before filming until they were finished and also used chairs to hold the doors open at the end of the corridor to allow light to come in from behind Christina.

We decided to remove the shot of her running into the bathroom because her costume began to fall apart, this scene was also much longer than we had expected being over 40 seconds making our remaining project filming time of 2 minutes even more limited.

For this scene we used props such as white face paint to make Christina appear pale and lifeless. This gave the scene more of aneeriness as she approached towards the camera that we were revealed to her face. For this scene we used the tripod to keep the camera still and in one place while we were filming, Throughout this we kept the shooting simple until she got closer to the camera where we then had to zoom in closer.

28/02/12Filming shots 8, 9: POV shot of group

The original plan to film in the toilets with David, Christina

and the nurse, However this was diverted as there was a

problem with the cleaners shutting down the toilets to

clean making us unable to film this shot.

Because of this we were only left to film the group through

the point of view of Christina as they come towards her.

The only problem we had was the issue of them getting

close enough to the camera without hitting the leg of the

stand making it move and keeping it steady as we filmed.

02/03/12We shot an additional ending which was to be considered which was in the school corridors with other characters walking down. This was not too difficult as we collected some girls who happened to be staying back after school hours to be in the film just to walk down the corridor but directed them to act as though they were also mentally ill to make it clearer of the location. This had to be shoot a few times as the cast had to keep in character for while and as it was at the end of the day it was difficult for some people to keep focused during the shooting. This scene consisted of a zoom inwards from the crowded corridor to Christina who is still isolated in a corner due to her mental state making it incapable for her to cope. As there were many people involved in this scene it was difficult to keep everything organised and put more pressure on us for time as it was the only moment we had with many people to be present all at once.

Cast (including extras):

Mario Tofaris

Christina Pope

Rene Kitoko

Dele St Pierre

Abiola Balogun

Mary-Kate Ah-Foon

Michaela Stweart

Comfort Bother

Andriana de Freitas

Rebecca O’Brien

Dana Taliba

Olamide Alli

16/03/12

Today we shot the toilet scene but had to move to a different building as there were complications with the school to film with boys in the girls toilets even after school hours. Because of this we had to go to Trinity at Bowes which was a youth centre as well as a church. Here we were aloud to shoot with Mario in the girls toilets with permission before the youth sessions started however kept us limited on time to complete this scene within the end of the day. We put on the props for our character Mario such as the fake blood and the torn white shirt. We also had our nurse Maria to dress into a nurse outfit for this scene. This was one of the most difficult scene for us to shoot as there were many factors which we had to take into consideration to give a disorientated effect such as the camera angles and close ups to show the panic in the scene and the emotion displayed from the distress she was experiencing.

16/03/12

Afterwards, we shot the lift scene were our character Christina ran in a panic after the toilets scene. Here we had other extra characters involved such as Rene Kitoko, Dele St. Pierre, Olamide Alli and Mario Tofaris. These characters were directed to walk into the lift as Christina ran in showing the contrasting difference of her behaviour to others. We shot this scene from a high angle in one corner of the lift presenting the shot to appear as though it were through a CCTV camera. Afterwards we would edit this scene to be in black and white in Adobe Aftereffects to give it a better effect. We tried to make as many different angles as we could so we filmed from outside the lift viewing it coming down and started off showing their legs and slowly revealing mario who was in the lift but was not shown on the CCTV filming. This made an even more dramatic ending as the lift was shown to descend in a slow motion in preparation for the reveal.

Whilst shooting this we also had to keep making sure that Christina’s hospital gown kept staying together as it kept opening from the back in each scene. This would have effected the filming in terms of consistency of the characters image.