How filming went - Charlotte

Filming was on the most part very successful - we did all the shots in two days, the first was very rainy so it meant we couldn't film our outdoor scenes (the field scene and the male protagonist walking along the street to the females house) but we were very lucky to have great sunny weather on the second day of shooting meeting we could film all these scenes and the lighting was perfect.

The field scene in particular worked really well - the lighting was very high key and yellow, making it look very ethereal and dream-like naturally, and at times beams of sunlight would reflect off the lens, creating really nice effects.

 Although the grass in the field was not as long as we'd imagined, we managed to give it the illusion that it was long and bushy by filming lower to the ground.

You can see here how the light has reflected to create beams across the screen.

The breakfast/daytime sequence was really fun to film and I think we got some great footage. We wanted to highlight the boring routine of the main characters day, so we used shots with quite a long duration, and showed that all he really does with his day is eat and sleep. We also used bossanova jazz style music, which has connotations of boredom and lethargy (lift music, hotel lobby music). I think this has worked perfectly with the sequence and really enhanced it.

We wanted the second dream sequence to seem more realistic than the first, to show that he has a range of dreams about her and not just one recurring one. In this one, he also features in the dream, which is the trigger for him to do something about it and try and 'get the girl'. We didn't want it to seem surreal or as dream-like as the first dream, as the stark realism of the dream is what makes his desire grow to the point where he has to react.

We decided to put a lot of photos of the female protagonist on his wall to show his obsession with her.

The montage was really interesting to shoot, as all the clips were so short and we weren't used to that type of filming. But shooting like this got easier as it went along, and we found we could create the same montage effect by filming 30 second clips of footage and cutting them up into clips of the best bits. We wanted this part of the film to have quite a manic, fast feel about it, as we wanted to increase the pace significantly to contrast to the slow start of the film. 

I think overall the filming was really successful and we got a lot of great shots to use.