Shooting diary- day (2)

Today it was raining quite heavily and the weather was very gloomy and dismal. However, we had planned to film that day and so we met up and filmed the torture scenes which took place inside the van. In fact, to our surprise the dismal weather outside helped to build up the sense of eerie atmosphere that we were hoping would be built up mainly through the acting and the performance. We tried to improvise and add shots of one of the mental men licking my face and trying to calm me down. I think that this shot worked but didn’t quite get the sense of “mental patient scaring the audience”, it was more comical than anything else. This shot didn’t work that well, and although it took up about 40minutes of battery life to shoot it, we decided not to use it in the end. When we watched this shot to edit it on the computer, we saw that it looked pornographic and didn’t really fit in with the story that we were trying to convey to the audience. Finally we ended this day of filming with pan shots of the van speeding past the camera. These shots will be useful for the van arriving to grab the girl and can also be used for the van departing from the girl.