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Due to technical problems we had to reshoot the little girls bedroom scene again. My personal opinions on reshotting something we had already filmed, i feel it was a good opertunity to fixate the shots we felt werent as strong, one problem that occured was that during the filming the time was meant to be quarter to six,but in the previous shooting the time said quarter to seven, so we corrected this.

Although we aimed to refilm the whole scene exactly the same as the original filming we shot, we did feel that it was best to make the scene make more sense, because originally the little girl would climb of the window seal and grab two barbies of her bed then play, drop one of the barbies, then play with them on the window seal, knealing on the floor, then the camera, follows round the room to a teddy bear in the corner and zooms into its eye. But we reshooted the scene to; a shot of the house on the outside, then the little girl on the widnowseal, the girl climbs of the window seal, as usually planned, she then picks up the two barbies from the bed side table, climbs onto the bed, drop the barbie, picks them up, and places them on the bed, she then walks over to the teddy bear in the corner and as she picks it up the camera zooms into the eye. which leads to the other scene.

These are the images of the movements we changed in the scene, we decided that the room looked too much like it was owned by a teengaer, so we wanted to make it a little more suited for a younger girl, so we attempted to draw like a little girl, whihc wasn't too hard. But we had to think of what a young girl would draw, i.e a farm, or a typicall family, overall i feel that the idea of the drawing of the family is rather effective.

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shot of the problem that occured.

this is a shot i took of the little girl playing with some dolls house stuff, two problems occured. One of which was that when i asked the young girl to present the stuff in the box out, like a young girl would, she basically did the complete oppisite, it was set up to neatly and looked as if it was set up by a teenager rather than a young one. The other reason which was explained origanly, is that this didnt work well with the rest of the filming, so i feel overall the barbies worked much better.

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The spirit of filming

We started of buy filming the outside of the house looking looking in, showing a shot of the only light that was on in the house at night time, effective enough as it was the shot consisted of the young girl looking out the window into the big wide world, in which she lives in. The camera zooms from the house the girls window, i feel this works smoothly. we then film this in the bedroom of the little girl looking out the window, from the teddy bears perspective, this is were the over the shoulder shot of the teddy comes in, i feel this was a successful part of the filming because the house represents that the little girl is safe.
Then we filmed the young girl awkwardly getting of the windows seal and grabbing to barbie dolls whilst sitting on the bed, then 'accidental' dropping the doll on the floor (later on we got a worms eye shot of the doll dropping) then she picks the doll up and plays with it them on the window seal, kneeling on the floor. We played about allot with the angles of this scene, for example i hung outside the window and filmed the scene looking in to the room, another example of how we shot this scene from different angles, is that we got a shot from the opposite corner of the the room, this camera was on the tripod which meant the camera was high up, this meant that we got a birds eye shot of this scene. We also filmed the scene from the nearer side of the room, this meant we got a side shot of the girl in the scene.
Originally we aimed to have the girl climbing of the window seal and getting her barbies out of a box, then sitting back on the window seal, but when we got to the filming this didn't feel as successful, and through honesty we begun to panic, because when this idea came to a conclusion it didn't work out as well as we hoped. So after yet another discussion, we came up with the conclusion of the young playing with her barbies. Then another problem came our way when the young actress couldn't understand what she had to do, so I announced the moves that she had to do, and when it came to it, after many practices, the actress realistically made it work.
The probelms we came across, was that when I did the camera shot outside the window I panicked a little and felt as if i was going to fall out the window, so i begun to shake a little which i knew wouldnt look right in the opening sequence, so i called in Adam who was origanlly filming, but being me i forgot to turn the camera of record so when Adam film, the part that he filmed was cut out, because he turned the camera of record, thinking he did the oppisite.
our plan is to blend both scenes (girls bedroom, to grandads house) together in a unique way, so what we plan to do zoom into a teddy bears eye, which will end the girls bedroom scene and zoom out of the christmas trees ball, the only problem that I know we will overcome is that when we zoomed into the eye of the teddy bear the screen of the camera disfocussed and turned white, where as with the ball on the christmas tree the camera disfocussed and turned black.

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shot one; the child's Teddy's.
this is a shot i took of what we had filmed during the production of part one in our opening sequence we are creating. The idea of the teddy bear seemed very 0obvious to us as a group as we want to show the age of the young girl, in an obvious way, the teddy bears sitting on the dressing table was an idea i bought up, because not only does the teddies look neatly presented, which shows that girl is very clean and not lazy. But from the teddy bears perspective the teddies look as if they are looking after the little girl, like they are the young girls guarding angel, but it might be looked at another way, the teddies may be setting the complete opposite of that. why this came across to me was because of the use of different shots we used, for example over the shoulder shot, looking in to the little girls room, at the young girl. so it feels as if someone/something is looking in/spying on the little girl. which suggests that this may happen during the rest of the film.

shot two; filming different shots of little girl

Through out the 2 hours we filmed, we managed to film as many different shots of the little girl as we could. worms eye, birds eye, close up, long shot, mid shot, and so on. i feel that the shot birds eye holds a lot of creation behind it. For example it represents the idea of being looked down on, theme of danger and being scared.

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this is an image of the coffee table by the fire, although we set it up and made it look as least comfortable as possible, but after shooting it, i dont think it holds anything clever or effective theme.. so in the editing i dont think we will include this clip.








this is a shot of the the dining room table, the memory box was my idea, to have a bunch of memories of the past behind whilst the future is being formed (haunting set up).. baring in mind the table was fully decorated and was in a happy enviroment i think the table has over all improved. but i feel the candles let it down a bit so we moved two of the candles away and already the table looked better.. we placed on next to the memory box, the other near the scissors. the table scene was just one camera shot, and that was over the shoulder shot, of my dad doing as he is told. but i do think this was a success..

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on this very day, me and Latisha (girl one) waited or the day to turn to night, the reason for this is that we wanted the scenery to be perposly light up, in other words we wanted the dark and scary night to be featured..and because the sun goes down rather early in the winter, we set up round five and started shooting at aound half five.. it took quite a long time to set up because my house was rather spiritual for the christmas period, so the house looked very happy.. and we aim for our chaacter to be desturbed and pretty much oppisite to that. So we took down most of the cards, changed the look of many different things, because to us every little thing counts. we set us four main things, the chrstms tree, the shelf bellow my mirror, fire pace and table, dinning room table.. because the house belongs to a lonely man we erased every lttle clue that suggested ladylikeness, even the washing line, that may sound silly but if that was in the backgound and there was a skirton there, the whole shoot would look silly, so that seemed rather a good idea.. also because the man is anonimous we wanted to set out little slues that it was a man, hints that were provided will be noticed but not too obvious, for example slippers by the fire, newspaper on the table, and doul colours.


this image hasnt been taken very well, but this is a shot of a prolem that accured, looking at the cenre of this you can see a snow man, this looked as if it had been pt there on perpose and attracted my eyes to it, so it was obvious that the audience would get confused of why this is here, so we had to swop that for a imple golden ball, which i prefered, as this is ideal, because the shot will be zooming into a teddy bears eye in the girls bedroom, and out o see a christmas tree in a completly different settig, this is how we are connecting bot parts together, then the christmas tree appears having a shadow being casted behind it, which shows the dark side of christmas..












this an image i took of one of the key images i want to include in my video, this was placed on a shelf, and is important to us.. we origanly aimed to have a picture come to life, as part of a memery theme, but we then decided this would be too techniquel, although i would have liked to do that, as it would have been more effective. this shot unpurposely became very suyccessful, the aim was to shot the whole shelf, going one side to the other, simple. but because i filmed it over and over again, in different ways.. one stood out the most which was, the camera going the oppisite side to this frame and as soon as the camera faced this photo is zoomed in towards the photo, and even though it wasnt meant to happen the camera disfocused the slightly focused as it focused on the photo frame, half the candle was in the shot and mostly the photo was in it, which i like, here we aim to put a cast name.. the photo itself wasnt put in perfectly, which even though was not meant to happen, i think it holds a convention because it looks like it isnthandled with care.














this was origanly another clock, a modern clock, but i think this just transformed the whole look of the shelf. because this clock is old it is another hint that this is an old person home.