Final day of filming

Today we shot the additional scene that we decided on. This involved the blood on Mehreen's hands. For this we used fake blood we purchased from the costume shop. It was quite hard to match the idea we had in our heads as the blood didn't seem real enough. Therefore we kept adding the blood until we were happy with how it looked and then we began filming.
The shots were somewhat challenging as we were showing a new part of the room  and we wanted to replicate exactly what we had visioned.We thought the best way to do this was with a pan, but it didn't seem quite right. So we tried filming the shot in a different way, this time involving handheld camera work, in order to portray her state of mind a bit better.
We all agreed that this worked much better so we continued to film these scenes using the same handheld camera work in order to ensure continuity.

Third day of filming

On our third day of filming we followed on from our second day by filming the continuing shots from where we had left off in the plot. This included overhead shots and linking low shots that would later be cross cutted to provide a continuous flow within our opening.
We also put together and filmed our title "Trapped". 

Second day filming

On our second day of filming we mainly focused our filming around the chair as we have many shots involving this area. We began by filming the undershot from inside a bag with the photo frame looking up at Mehreen. We decided that we would place the camera inside the bag in order to clearly sow Mehreen's facial expressions whilst incorporating a different angle. It was harder to capture then we originally imagined as we first tried just having the camera in the bag however as this was unsuccessful we decided that Jana could hold the camera in a certain position (shown below) to get the shot exactly how we wanted it.

Our next shot involved an over the head shot from behind Mehreen, this also took a few attempts to perfect as it involved a zoom which we wanted to be smooth and not appear too rushed or too slow. It was important for us to perfect this shot as this is what leads on to the flashback so we wanted it to seem as continuous as possible.

First day of filming

On our first day of filming (the 14th November) we was able to go straight into filming as we had done all our planning in advance and our actress Mehreen knew exactly what she was doing which allowed everything to run smoothly. The storyboard helped a lot as a base for this as it helped us to provide a general plan for what we wanted to get filmed on day one.  We had to think about mise-en-scene and take any irrelevant objects out of the room in order to provide the scene we wanted (Spoke about in my last post). We were therefore able to go straight in with filming our second shot which was a freehand POV shot from the door as it opens and then matched with a shot from a different angle.
We did encounter some problems when filming the freehand shot as Jana, who was shooting this part,  found it difficult to hold the props that were needed and also hold the camera at the same time. However, after a few practice shots Jana was able to create this shot perfectly which enabled us to continue onto the next shots.
The next angle we needed was a 'CCTV' angle which was going to be included in numerous shots which is why we decided to do this on our first day of filming as we could film all our shots that needed this angle. One of the shots was match on action and so therefore we had to make sure everything was the same and Mehreen was laying in the same position which was also another reason why we decided to film this shot on the same day.