Filming Evaluation: 3/10/14

Alice putting make up on Emily

Taking a close-up shot of her shoes

On the 3rd October 2014, the group and our actor Emily travelled up to London, meeting at Waterloo to film some scenes for our trailer. We were planning on filming all the shots of our homeless girl and also look around and possibly experiment with filming our time lapses/establishing shots. This is the shooting script that we used for the day.

As soon as we left the station, Alice started preparing Emily's face for filming, by removing all of her current make up and using darker make up to make her face appear dirty and grubby. We had also asked her to wear a hat and gloves and her jeans were ripped to achieve the homelessness look.

The result

We then took numerous shots of Emily, using a variety of camera angles so that we had more than enough to choose from when editing the footage, just in case the ones that we had planned to use didn't turn out as well as we hoped. We also tried a tracking shot, from the point-of-view of a casual passerby looking down on this homeless girl and just ignoring her which I think should be quite effective, if we can edit it correctly.

Filming

High angle shot

Filming the time lapse

Setting for a time lapse

Setting for a time lapse (in sun)

We then walked from Waterloo to Charing Cross, looking for locations to film the time lapse. We stopped on the bridge itself facing the London Eye and set up the camera, letting it film for about ten minutes while people walked across in front and luckily, we managed to get a few boats in shot as they passed under the bridge, creating a ripple wave effect.



Knowing that Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery are popular locations for tourists, we decided to sit up on one of the monuments to try and get more of a high angle shot, rather than just filming on the ground. We were extremely lucky with the timing for this footage because during our filming, a series of clouds passed across the sun, causing shadows to fall and move across the building opposite.




Overall I feel the footage we filmed on that day was quite successful and will hopefully be included in our final trailer. I think the time lapses are good enough but as Megan's dad was not available on this day, we will have to come back up to Waterloo to film the footage where he finds her sitting on the floor to make it more clear they are both in the same location.