Andrew Tinley Thriller: 12th March

Final Filming

Today in period 3, we went to the field, where we filmed our last scenes. These scenes were shots, like the ones of Tom and Sophie on Monday, but shots of Me. Due to the fact I am in the picture pan at the start too and it wouldn't make sense if the stalker is just focusing on one victim, when there's two in the pictures. It was raining during filming and very cold, therefore we tried to get these scenes shot efficiently with a high level of focus. (These shots were taken by Thomas Adcock with Sophie Neil's input on shot type, shot distance and second viewing. Sophie Neil was taking location shots and camera stills (below) whilst the footage was being taken).
The first shot was of Me approaching a swing park and sitting down on the swing, like Thomas did the other week. This was filmed from different angles, like Thomas's shots. However we did forget to shoot this from a high angle (with tripod and camera up on the slide platform) We then shot footage of me walking out the park, with the camera hidden behind a tree (unfortunately Sophie didn't take a picture of this shot). We then filmed me walking out of the park, and down a paved path across a field down towards a twitchel. During this footage, Josh (the stalker) walks in to the shot. We tried Josh walking from in front of the camera (few seconds after me), however this shot looked as if Josh had deliberately walked in this shot and it didn't look natural. As an actor you always have to a purpose to what you are doing, if you are portraying naturalism(Stanislavski's theory), therefore we attempted Josh walking in from behind the camera. This worked a lot better and actually looked as if the camera was more "invisible".
After these shots, we filmed, from the front, Me walking towards the camera, with Josh following me. This shot was purely taken, due to the fact that where the camera was before, the end of the path couldn't been seen, due to its location. This shot was filmed twice, in case in editing one of the shots are wrong. We did this with every shot will took today.
Finally we filmed (from the bottom of the twitchel), Me walking up the twitchel with Josh following me from behind, this shot continued until I got to the top of the twitchel and turned the corner on to the main road. This shot was interrupted several times, due to members of the public using this walkway as footpath. This delayed our timing, however the shot was still filmed twice.
The weather today, was much preferable weather for the theme of our thriller and gained the pathetic fallacy that we needed it too, rather than the sunny day when my walking shots where filmed the other week.