Filming - Chess

Well,
last weekend myself aylish and jon met up in ardingly to film. I did the make up which looked quite impressive, and we went down to the filming area and set up. Luckily it was basically deserted so we didnt annoy anyone or have any one annoying us. We filmed all the outside bits which is good as we dont need to worry bout continuity with the weather or lighting. We filmed at about 2o'clock for an hour and a half, it was really cold but i just wrapped my coat around me between filming. Even though its set in the evening/night time we were able to film in the day as we can use the night footage to change it. This means now all we need to do is the shower sequence (where i will have clothes on) and another two flashback shots. We would have done this in the weekend but the shower was broken, so we will film in my house as thats closest to college. Overall we did find it hard to film the running with out making it look really bad because it just wasnt very subtle and there was an issue with the shoes, as some area of the woods we had to wear shoes but other close up shots we wanted bare feet, however we managed to film enough so that hopefully in editing we can change it and make it look normal so you dont really notice the editing, well thats the plan anyway.

We started by filming the depth of field shot to establish the scene, this effect wasnt planned in the story board but on location we thought we might like to try it. The depth of field shots worked really well, better then we had expected. We then proceded to film the shot reverse shots while keeping the 180 degree rule, however we broke this rule once to show a different angle to her face to make it look as if she was surrounded in the chase. We struggled with the long shots and extreme long shots because when i was running through the main forest I had to wear shoes, so these then became visible but in editing we will hopefully be able to hide this. A shot which also went better then expected was a shot of my feet going down the steps onto a lane/country road. This shot was suppose to show her coming back to civilisation and looked really effective, and for these shots i had to be bare footed as otherwise it wouldnt of had the same impact. An unplanned shot was of Jons house and me coming up looking at the house. We werent going to bother with it, but I suggested we should to make the link from the walking down the road to the house which we actually in totally different locations but look as if its down the same road, being match on action. This actually did look really good, and will hopefully explain the jump from the lane to the shower scene. We only got chance to film one flashback as the shower was broken, so we need to film another few shots of flashbacks and in the shower which we plan to do on Wednesday, so unfortunately we missed the last deadline.