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 The diary…

The days seem to slow, the hours drag on and feel like days. The sad thing is, its day one. My group are great, hard working and confident. Max is trying his very best not to annoy us to the extent where we gouge his eyes out with the tripod, and let me tell you… ive come close. We are experimenting with a  variety of diffirent angles, for example when Natalie is sitting on the swing. We used an over the shoulder shot to express to the audience the “creeps” point of view.

As we experiment more and more, we are finding it tricky to make our ideas come true.

Day 3- at this point in our directing were finaly starting to get somewhere… we have had a rough few days and now we have a solid idea that were trying to get a cross to our audiences. The action shots we were using to film the running scenes were increasingly difficult as the day progressed. Once we had wrapped for the day we went straight to the editing room to use I movie a sophisticated movie maker by mac. During the day we had three main scenes to film the chase, the lead up to the chase and finally the tripping up. Once all was done the holidays couldn’t come quicker and the group departed for a weeks rest.

Day 4 ( holidays)

We have all decided to meet up to better our original project, take 1 was cut and we started from scratch. It was actually a great thing to do because now we have a long stretch of time to try and make it as good as possible. The first scene took place on a public footpath,  in Burbage where the mist had fallen perfectly to create some mise en scene. Our first shot was a long shot watching max walk towards Natalie. We then got a close up on nats reaction. This is to create atmosphere for our viewer.We spent 7 hours re writing , re filming and re editing today and trust me. Its worth it. Its starting to come together and we are really happy with the nearing end.

Day 5 last day of shooting! We couldn’t wait the climax of shooting ! We had used almost all the neccasary shots. We had used over the shoulder to get point of view, we had use long shot to get perspective but the show I loved and wanted to include more were close ups, I love the reaction on the actors faces and it adds such deph to the scene. Luckily the conditons we filmed in where dark and eery adding to the atmosphere. We didn’t want to show the face of Max because we felt the mystery would entice the audience into watching it and becoming en ravvled in the story.