FILMING DIARY DAY 2

We completed our second day of filming late one Friday night in February, to ensure
that the weather and atmosphere was correct and as we had envisaged for our film.
We began our filming in Sainsbury's car park where we had planned on capturing both
long and medium shots of Clio as she walks out of the store, bags in hand and heading to
the car where James was waiting for her. These shots were quite simple to achieve and add
a concept of realism. The area that we filmed in was well lit for the look we were trying to
achieve, so this was a positive. The only negative for these shots was the fact that the
general public could frequently be seen in our shots. However, this no longer became
an issue as this made it more realistic.

Other shots that we achieved during our day 2 of filming were in the car park where the
car is seen to beep and make the babysitter jump. This took a little while to get as we
had to time it correctly. Furthermore, we had to make sure not to distract other drivers,
and hence, there was quite a bit of waiting around to achieve this shot.

Whilst at sainsbury's, we also decided to take the pictures for our film poster as there
was a brick wall that we had planned to use as our background. Obviously it was late at
night, and so we struggled to achieve good lighting. However, we decided that our favorite
pictures were ones that had the flash on as they created this 'mug shot' style picture
which really captured our characters roles and moods.

Lastly, we had to capture the shots of the car being "destroyed". By the time we had
driven back to our house it was very late and the roads were empty, which created this
ironic setting of calmness amongst the craziness which was about to begin. We had quite
a big problem with lighting at this point, and despite parking the car underneath a street
lamp to get the shot as bright as possible, the shots came out looking much darker than
we had originally planned. Additionally, we had planned on "spray painting" the car but we
were unable to get hold of these props, and couldn't find a place that we could film
without actually getting accused of destroying a car.

In general, we were happy with the shots that we achieved and thought that we had a fairly
successful filming evening, despite struggling with lighting and actually getting our
actors in the same place at the same time.