Filming day #1

Filming day #1

On my first day of filming at the location, Com's site 3, I filmed what I could with my main actor so that I had quite a bit of footage to start editing. I was only able to film footage of my main actor as I encountered a problem of miscommunication and a misunderstanding with the person who I thought wa organising some 'German' actors, but I had to overcome this and I did so by filming the parts with my main actor.

When I first got to the location I met with Tony to tell him my intentions and where I would be filming, as they were setting up the site for an airsoft game and we did not want to interrupt with each other's activities. Tony also showed us where the toilets were located and where he would be in case we wanted a drink.

The footage I filmed with my main actor involved a lot of mid shots and close-up shots. I filmed the opening parts of the character waking up and moving off into the woods as well. A lot of my shots took place around a destroyed building as that was where most of the action and conflict would take place within my media product. I used a variety of angles and shots to build up an affect and create different effects to be seen and interpreted by the audiences. An example is that I shot some low-angle shots in order to show the power and strength that is given off by the main character. I also used canted-angles in a few of my shots to show the distortion and to make the audience feel uneasy and as if something is not right. One of the shots, which was a close up, I shot to give a hidden meaning. The shot was a close up of the gun as the character was walking into the distance, however the slide of the gun was back, indicating it was out of ammunition. I used this shot to give the hidden meaning that the character is now defenceless and has no bullets left to defend himself, therefore allowing my audience to interpret a variety of different scenarios that could happen to the character.