Day 1 of Filming

21/12/2011

Due to scheduling conflicts I had to change my location for a part of the opening. Instead of filming the outside of the house in the same location as filming the inside, I filmed outside a house in Norfolk as opposed to one in Yorkshire. As I needed a man outside with a bunch of flowers about to enter a house the actor I was going to use, Alex Elliot, wouldn't be in Yorkshire until February and I want to be editing my film by then, so instead I filmed at his house.

I did numerous shots and filmed as much as possible as it was getting dark quickly! I did a shot of the flowers, a shot of him knocking on the door, a shot from behind of him knocking on the door, a shot from the side and a shot of someone opening the door on the other side.

Alex knocking on the door from a different angle edited in black and white with red flowers

Close up of the flowers edited in black and white with red

Alex knocking on the door

My Sister getting ready to open the door

Hand on the door

In my original character bio for the man he was well dressed, rich and wore expensive clothes and an expensive watch, however I've altered that slightly, he is still rich but he doesn't come across like that straight away, he's more geeky and doesn't have very good style. My actor, Alex (pictured below), has quite long dark brown hair and a beard. However, due to the different shots I used you can't see his face. He was wearing a suit, Alex has acted before so he was happy to take direction from me.

I originally was going to have a bunch of red roses in the shots but I had to change this also as I went to a number of shops and none sold a bunch of red roses, so I bought a bunch of red tulips instead. There was more green than red in the bunch so I took off quite a lot of leaves so the red could stand out more.