Thursday 25Th

Filming And Still Shots

Today we got the camera ready to do a characters credit, this one in paticular was a bit of a struggle, the shot is, Genny looking into a mirror and the characters name is writtin on the mirror and she wipes it off, so we found a good toilet with a good mirror in which was in the D Block the upstairs disabled toilet, the mirror is very clear unlike all the other toilets mirors. The original idea was to steam up the top right hand corner of the mirror and then to write the name in with out finger and quickly get the shot, it all worked untill we tryed filming it, as I was standing directly behind Genny so you couldn't see me in the mirror I couldn't see the writing. So we then decided we'd actually have to write on the mirror, first we thought of using red lipstick to give it the horror effect, so we went around asking the girls in our class if they had any lipstick and turns out no-one in our class wears lipstick. We looked through our make-up bags and found some liquid eyeliner. We went back up to the toilets and tried it out, as it was liquid we had to apply quite alot to the brush as it left bits out, so we had to go over letters before we could flm other wise it wouldn't show up the best it could. It looked really good, and finally we could film the shot. we had to film a few takes of this shot as sophie kept making genny laugh when she was looking in the mirror, it would of been fine if the audience was only looking at the back of Genny's head but you could see her face in the mirror too, finally we got to the bit where Genny wipes the writting off with her hand to find that it had dried, so after thinking we had finished we then had to film it all again, Genny came up with the next idea of having a bit of wet tissue in her hand for when she wipes the writting off, so we tried this and it worked. I'm really happy with this credit title evan though alot had gone wrong we worked it out and made it work.

 

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