Meeting #8- Filming the first scene

When filming our first scene we started off by filming a shot of the train going by. This was extremely hard at the time because it was hard to focus the camera while panning across the train as it went past. We then moved onto the shot of the girl(me) and shot from different distances for later editing. My group think it's really important to take as much of the same shot as possible, but using as many different angles to see what works best. We then filmed a close-up of my facial expressions showing I looked a bit uncomfortable and showed how I felt about waking up on the bench in the middle of the night where nobody is around. After that it was the shot of the phone, this was our first extreme close-up of the text received from Olivia Watson's mum saying "Where are u I am worried" this is effective as it sort of makes the audience question whether there this is a sign that she isn't going to make it home.  I then came up with this idea of a shot of the swing moving to give the audience an idea that someone, somewhere is watching
or following Olivia, and that she is not safe.

Only a few seconds after that the girl straight away turns around and the killer is standing right in front of her, this is effective as the audience must haven't expected it to be so soon, after seeing the shot of the swing moving from behind the girl, the audience would have suspected that the killer was more or less behind her rather than in front. We took these range of shots to shock the audience and to make them jump. The first shot of the killer is when he right away goes at the girl with his knife to attack her, that is the first thing the audience see the killer do. My group thought that it would be interesting to get a shot of the victim up against the tree covered in blood, when you think about it, the audience don't actually 100% know if the victim is dead or not, just because she has blood on her stomach and the shot of her being stabbed quite a bit, doesn't actually prove to the audience, that she isn't alive. This shot sets up a big mystery to our opening sequence, and the office scene which comes after, about the girl missing, makes the audience wonder if they will find her body alive or dead.
                                                               I am very proud with this meeting, because our group just got
straight to work with so many ideas and just got on with it. We took so many shots, which will be helpful later on for our editing as we now have a wider choice.