Filming: Day Three 22/11/10

Time: 1:45
Actors: Lewis Montague, Tim Bousfield, James Hancock, James Garrod, Jasmine Lee, Stephanie Hadlow, Matthew Bigg and Hannah Cullen
Location: St Annes Pub, Great Leighs and Brickbarns Road.

This afternoon, myself and Jo Peplow-Revell had to arrange new actors to fit our males. We have lost Lewis Spaul due to illness and Tom Le Gresly for other reasons. The boys that we used were excellent and we were pleased with the result, as this was how we wanted the men to look as it follows Verisimilitude as they were in everyday wear and as we left the cameras running, we caught them acting realistically. We shot this scene simultaneously with the shot including Helen so they would run together well when edited. This worked really well and we were extremely pleased with how effective and realistic it looked.

The shot with the boys was to see them talking and when catching sight of Helen would turn, cheer and whistle at her. This was included to show the reaction males have to her, which relates again to the male gaze theory as she is seen as an attractive female. The shot with Helen was a close up on her red heels walking. The shot tracked backwards and panned up her body to her face to then pan round to be a point of view shot looking at the men at the pub. We were aware of getting permission for filming outside of the pub. The Landlord said it was okay as long as we credit the pub, which we will make sure we do.

The next shot we filmed was the villagers stopping their conversation to look at Helen walking past. This shot included myself and Jade Saunders. The camera angle is an over the shoulder shot looking towards Helen and we are watching her walk past in awe. The following shot we did was Jade Saunders, playing a different character therefore we changed her clothes, getting out of the car and again, watching Helen walk past. The car we used was a green Micra which I discuss in our props list. The green car was connoting the jealousy the villager is feeling towards Helen.

A problem we encountered today was that our males for the pub scene were eventually unwilling to wait until we could get our final actor, Tamer Saleh, so we have had to arrange another day this week in which we can film our final scene and get the pictures for our poster and magazine finished.