CONSTRUCTION: Filming

On the 25th January, Alex, Tom and I all met up with the cast in Walton. Tom and I had both seen an alleyway that we felt would be a good place to film the murder site. During the creation of the storyboards, we discussed the use of the alleyway, so we set the filming location to start at the alley to film the first scene.

First Scene
The first scene has Detective Swanson, the protagonist, investigating the location of the murder scene. The Victim, a personal connection to the detective. The alleyway was a perfect match for the scene, graffiti sprayed on the walls and high fencing on both sides this created a dark and sinister scene. I placed the tripod in the centre of the alley, I extended it up high to prevent a post from obstructing the view, as wells as this it would mean that the audience would be eye-level with Ben (Cheif of Police). This means that he is a representation of the average person and is on equal grounds with the audience. This representation will come into play later. Nathan (Detective Swanson) walks into view, he walks in front of Ben obscuring him from the view of the audience. This makes him stand out as an important character. Ben tries to turn Nathan away, but Nathan reminds him of who he is, taps badge, establishing him as someone not to be trifled with. Ben backs away. A tracking shot is used to follow Nathan to the body, who is Tom under a binbag. A slight pan up is used to follow Nathan's gaze. I then used a slow pan up while Nathan was walking down the alley. We did this as we wanted to create a transition that would be fluid. The Pan ends in the sky and we wanted to start the next scene in the sky.

Second Scene
After we had analyzed the footage and were pleased with the footage we had taken we packed up the camera gear. The next filming location was a marina in which we would film on a boat, that was owned by one of us. Luckily the marina was relatively empty, meaning there was little background noise to disturb our recording. When we began filming on the boat, I soon found out the difficulty of using a tripod on a boat. So for the rest of the filming on the boat, I opted to film handheld. While we filed Alex as the "Big Boss" we made sure that the camera was at a low angle, this is to position him as the one in power.  We then set about, film an establishing shot of the marina and Nathan entering it. After the weekend of filming, we began the first stages of editing.