Script and Prop changes

I have changed quite a lot of my script and props, instead of having a cherry pie I now have my actor laying the table, lighting a candle and blowing out the match. Also I have added a scene with my actor pouring herself a glass of wine then drinking some leaving a lipstick mark on the glass.
I have also changed the name of my film from "The Scarlet Lady" to "La Femme Rouge"
Also instead of using newspaper clippings of missing men I decided to have photos of men with circled faces and some the crosses in red on their faces. I have pictures of different men all walking round unaware they are being photographed, although we did ask their permission if we could use their photos, and one of Alex, the actor who knocks on the door as seen below.

Day 2 of Filming

21/01/2012

Today I am filming the inside scenes of my film opening. It did come with a few problems; breaking curtains, chopping meat unevenly, not being able to light matches or candles and not being able to put on a table cloth!
I changed my opening so instead of having a pie come out of the oven I now have the mystery woman laying a table for two, pouring herself some wine, lighting the candle and blowing out a match. As when I filmed the scenes outside it was dark I wanted it to seem like dusk inside even though it was only 1 o'clock in the afternoon, I remember this as at my location there are many clocks that strike on the hour.

As I wanted the room darker I closed the curtains behind the table, in doing so the curtain pole fell down on myself and my sister. Once we fixed the curtains we started to lay the table, I wanted to have a shot of someone putting a table cloth on the table. This took a good half hour as first of all we had to iron the table cloth as it had so many creases in it, then we had to work out how to throw the table cloth over the table so it landed perfectly the first time without having to straighten it out, this was hard than you think! We had to do it about 12 times and that was only practise, we had to do it another 5 times for the real thing!
We also light a candle, this also took a long time! The candle did light first time but Vicki lit it before I started filming! After this it took ages to light the candle again!
Below is a picture of my sister who played the main part in the opening of my film.

Chopping the meat

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.