Filming: Day Two

For this lesson we received three porcelain dolls therefore we decided to film the scenes in which they were of use. For example we filmed a few clips planned in our storyboard of close-up shots of these dolls faces. The heads of the dolls were moveable also, so for a few of the shots we placed our fingers out of the mis-en-scene - behind the head of the doll for example - and moved the dolls head to be looking at the camera for a very sinister feel. We also filmed scenes of the main character playing with these dolls at a table, using close-ups of the main character's hands along with his face. We bought some candles for this lesson too, in which we used as props to stand on the table and to burn the dolls, the melted wax of these candles was dripped onto the dolls face for one shot in addition.

Before this day of filming Catherine took the camera home to film footage from a car window driving through a city for half an hour. This is something we will be using for a time-lapse scene to cut to throughout the music video. This will add a very hazy and hypnotizing tone to see the lights of other vehicles and lampposts shine in the dark. In the studio on the day we also experimented with shadows to create some unnerving shots of the main characters shadow along with others.

After filming in the studio that day we decided to go into the city of Manchester to film more scenes. The scene where the main character is standing in the middle of a street while other passers-by flutter past him was filmed in this day, I had to stand on a street in manchester in my costume for twenty minutes while others walked past me, this scene will have a time-lapse effect used on it to give a sense of isolation for the main character as I stand in the same position while others are moving hurried around me. We also filmed the main character standing by a church looking at a tomb in a curious fashion this day along with an attempt at filming the scene where the victim is caught by the main character at an alleyway, however we did not have enough time for this scene, so we decided we should film it another day.