Filming: shoot day 2

Today, March 1st, we filmed the scenes in the darkroom and in the cemetery; this was a scheduled filming day that we had preplanned around a week before. We made the decision to shoot two scenes in one day because we knew that these were going to be relatively small parts of the film trailer, and we were using locations that were very close in proximity to the school - this makes access very easy and means there are no requirements to calculate travel times into our scheduling.

The cemetery we had located was very close to our school, which made finding a suitable date for filming much easier as we knew it wouldn't require additional time for travelling etc. At the start of the day, both Megan and I had a free lesson at the same time as Nicole, so we made arrangements to shoot during this time; the weather on the day of filming was overcast, but this helped us create a sense of pathetic fallacy. The dark weather reflected the situation that we were trying to portray, with the death of her partner. As we were aware of the weather, we ensured that the actress had bought suitable clothing so that she wouldn't be cold.

As we were very close to school, and the scene we were shooting was only going to be a very small part of the film trailer, we made the decision to only bring one battery. While we didn't film for very long, we felt that we could return to school if the battery did run out, although in this case it didn't. Unlike our first days filming, we didn't use the 16GB memory card as we felt that the amount of footage required would be much less that this, and as mentioned previously, the proximity to school would allow us to return and fetch a higher capacity card if it was required.
Similar to the first filming day, we took copies of the storyboard so that we could get the shots we required, however we also took multiple shots that weren't planned so that if our original idea didn't work, we would have back ups.
As we were filming quite a sensitive subject, we ensured that when we were focusing on a gravestone we didn't capture any personal information of the deceased because we hadn't specifically gained permission from the family of the grave we were using, which could have provided us with a confidentiality breech. However we did show the back of a grave stone, which showed the surname of the deceased; we felt that this was acceptable as it didn't reveal any personal information that would allow someone to identify the person, and potentially cause distress to the victim's family.

When filming in the dark room, we made the decision to use the red lighting already present to represent the location that the character is in; the colour red also connoted danger which is relevant considering that this is when she first notices a figure in her pictures. Having consulted with our teacher, we felt that this was the best decision.
We ensured that the dark room was empty when we planned to use it as we didn't want to disrupt anyone developing their coursework - we did this by checking the timetable before hand and making sure that we chose a period that was free. By ensuring that the dark room was free, it meant that there would be no other students present who may be captured by the camera; they wouldn't have been given parental permission to be filmed, and so this could have been a safeguarding issue that would be difficult to control.