I started the setting up of the equipment at 9ish and that gave us an hour before the actors turned up. We set up the camera, the sound and the lighting. We knew the lighting would take a while to set up and get correct so we made sure that we had enough time to do it.
Three actresses arrived at 10am, and unfortunately, the original actress who I had casted to play Emily did not arrive. This meant I had to adapt the script and work with the present actresses by giving them a few extra lines and changing the camera angles slightly.
I gave the actresses some time to read through their lines together and get to know each other so the friendship chemistry between them would be realistic. I then told them what actions I wanted them to do and how I wanted the scene to look, which they then took on board and rehearsed a few times. We then started the filming at 11am.
I started on a long shot and used that as my master shot. We did this shot a few times, and I had the actress run through the whole scene so when it came to editing I could go back to this shot knowing it contained the whole scene. I then moved on to a mid shot and the two over the shoulder shots that I wanted to achieve. All three shots contained the whole scene which meant that, when it came to editing, I could look through the shots and decide which angle works better with the different lines of dialogue.
I made sure to give the actresses a few breaks in between shots to let them have a drink, have a snack or run through their lines once more just so they reassure themselves of the line.
The last shots we filmed were the close up shots. The close ups were of all of the actresses both when they were stood up and sat down, and I started with Spencer, then Aria, and ended on Hanna. I made sure to keep the close ups tight to make the lines of dialogue seem more personal and to get better coverage of the actresses emotions.
Once the close ups of all of the actresses were done, we did some cut away shots. I wanted a birds eye view type shot of the box where you can see it being opened and can see everything inside it. I also wanted the actress to carry on with their actions of taking the piece of paper, the fabric, the dolls and the other pieces of paper out of the box. I also wanted shots of the actresses holding the dolls and the actresses holding the papers so I could use them as cut away shots as well.
Once every shot was filmed and I didn't need anymore shots, I wrapped the shoot and started planning the second day of shooting.
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The second day of shooting was on Saturday 13th Feb, and because I had to arrange it last minute I had Nisserin as my camera operator but we had to make do with a road mic on top of the camera for the sound. We also had to use my Canon 700D camera due to the camera availabilty. There isn't any dialogue in the second scene, which is what we were shooting, so it didn't matter too much.
We decided to start the shoot quite early so we could get the scene done with time after to look through the footage and make sure we had everything.
I started with the shots in the summer house due to having to move around the furniture. We did a few shots outside of the summer house where you can see the actress walking towards it, opening the door, walking inside and then outside. We then moved inside the summer house and had a shot from the corner of the room. A few close ups of the actress and the doll were shot and a cut away shots of the actress picking up the doll and the map were shot also.
We then worked our way up the garden, and shot the beginning of the scene by the door. We did mid shots of the actress walking into the building and back out, and we also did a close up of the rubbish bag being put down and the actress wiping her hands.
Once I had looked through my storyboard and shot list and had decided that I had all the shots I needed, we wrapped the shoot. After putting all of the furniture back, and once the actress had left, we looked through the footage on the camera and decided that the shots looked really good. I wanted a shot of the garden from a point of view type shot, so we went back out and shot that angle and decided we had everything that I wanted.
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