Filming of the main exercise

After completing our final script we decided on our two filming locations. Once these were decided we completed two recce's.


Location 1- Filmed on 10th March Location Recce













We used this as our first location, where we filmed 'girl 2', who is the more privileged character. We decided on using this as it has the mise-en-scene relevent to the character. All the rooms except from the bedroom are neutral cream colours, which supports the idea that she is more privileged that the other character. When we filmed there was nothing else in the dining room other than the table and chairs. The room is also light which aided the filming as we didn't have to use alot of artificial light. This was a similar case when it came to filming in all the other rooms as the rooms we chose to film in were bright and had large windows.


Filming in the bathroom was the hardest part as we had to position the camara so you couldn't see the camara operator in the reflection of the girl, so this took us a little longer to establish a shot that was appropriate. I was responsible for props and this mean't that i had to cook a poached egg for one of the scenes. The actress was having difficultly cutting it and having it on the fork so i cut the egg and toast and we made sure that when we edited it it was cut as the knife came down so this wasn't obvious. It also supports continuety and cutting on action.

Location 2- Filmed on 17th March

We used location two for the less fortunate girl. We decided on this because of the decoration of the house. The hall way had wall paper with half torn off, in the kitchen it was small and looked like it fitted the mise-en-scene that we wanted to forfil. The bathroom was small with plain walls and the bedroom was small and looked young. Because of all of this we thought it would be appropriate to represent the house of the secound girl.

We had some problems when filming because of the small amount of space in all the rooms. This made it very difficult to set up some of the shots. For example the shot that she is brushing her teeth in, the camara person had to stand in the shower cubicle. Also the shot of her walking out of the door we had to place the tripod on top of a table, setting up the shot and then pressing recourd before leaving the camara. This made it hard to set up the frame in the right way, despite this i think this framing was quite successful.