Filming 2.

Originally for our trailer we wanted to film our actress at a friends party having fun and showing her getting drunk and maybe having an argument with a friend. We planned to do this because we wanted to arrange a 'suspect' that the audience would suspect when watching the trailer. We also wanted to film Megan walking home from the party and bumping into a friend that she had upset earlier. We thought by adding these two scenes we would help the audience to suspect people of stalking Megan. However after discussions with our group we decided we didn't need those two scenes in our trailer at all as we wanted to add mystery and wanted people to want to watch the film. We decided to make a list of possible things we could film that would fit the gaps in our trailer. We realised when watching our trailer again most of it was set in her house. We then decided to film at school to change the scenery and it was easiest for Megan. We decided to film Megan looking at the chess as we decided we didn't have many closeups and we wanted to show Megan looking at the chess confused. When we filmed this it was a bit tricky as Megan kept getting 'camera shy' and laughing but we filmed it a few times so we could pick the best one. We also wanted to film a part at school where is shows that Megan cant escape the chess so we came up with a shot where Megan opens her locker and finds the chess there. We decided the way to go to film this was putting the flip cam in her locker and then getting her to open it to reveal a confused face. The problem with this was we had to try and balance the camera on something and also it took quite a lot of time before Megan opened the locker so we had to make sure that we cut it at the right place. The last thing we filmed was a shot of Megan running away to show her anxiety increasing. I think these few shots really helped our trailer flow better, even more so than the party scenes.