Filming #4

By piecing the footage together on Final Cut, we were able to find out which shots were left to get. I broke this down into 3 shots that were crucial to the story:

1) Chris (Witness) exiting shops.

2) Witness walking onto the estate.

3) A shot of him dropping his shopping bag when he notices the mob and victim. 

The jump between shots from the shop exit to the estate, is narrated over. Between the estate shots we have made references back to the cafe to avoid jumping shot to shot on the estate which would not look right or portray the flashback narrative correctly. 

Filming #3

I filmed the whole of this - Part III of the filming comprised of tying up specific scenes.

After looking over our first parts of filming on the estate, I broke down the main parts of the flashback sequence that need to be finished:

Introduction Running scene, interaction between the Witness + Gang and several establishing shots (including the victim entering the estate by car). 

What I focused on also was incorporating the entrances of the mob members onto the estate so I included shots of 2 men walking down from the alley next to some bins (as seen above). Although this may not be used, I made a habit of filming more than I needed so that it is useful for cut-scenes during the later stages of editing. 

What we needed was a strong establishing shot of the mob and their placement. I decided to film this shot whilst I drove up the road, because of the scarcity of people and obstructions present, I was able to do this with ease. I decided to film it like this to get the point of view of the driver and to hint to our audience a connection between the driver and these men later. By filming it with somebody sitting in the passenger seat, it simply wouldn't have had the same effect. 

At stage 3 of the filming I am happy with the outcome of my filming so far. At this penultimate stage, we have just a few more bits of footage left to capture. 

Filming #2

Heres are some stills and some photos of the set from today.

Today I managed to capture the discourse through shots I hope will engage our audience and feel the suspense.

I filmed the whole of the cafe scene, Chris acted and Declan came up with ideas for some of the shots. Throughout I made sure to get enough 'extra shots', acting as more establishing shots. I find this is particularly useful during the editing, where more cut-shots tend to be used than planned in an initial shot list.

Filming #1

Today's filming was a success.

We managed to get together the majority of footage for the Estate scene and the ending scene of the mob walking into the cafe.

Here are some stills from my camera.

Next week we will be completing the Estate scene and the scene of the discourse in the Cafe.