Filming- Friday 4th March.

Today was our first day of filming! Our first task was to choose an appropriate costume for Alice (Playing Teenage and Adult Elizabeth). Alice's mum kindly leant her some old jumpers which she paired with an old pair of jeans!

We also Added light make up to her face to give her a very pale effect. Black eye-liner was also added beneath the eyes creating dark circles, seeing as Elizabeth had not seen daylight for 24 years. Adding talcum powder to her lips gave a pale cracked effect and finished the look off! 

We used cardboard to block out any natural light:

We then set up the Television and also stuck up the pictures we had previously drawn...

One of Alex's family friends Amber kindly took on the role of playing young Elizabeth! We headed over to Alex's house where Amber would be comfortable filming and shot the scenes which she is present in. 

Amber!

We firstly filmed in Alex's kitchen in front of the fire place which was the perfect position, showing the 'homely' effect we were hoping for. We were really impressed with Amber's patience and skills considering she has not done any acting previous to this! 

Alex took on the part of Joseph Fritzl for these shots as only her arm would be in frame!

We then moved onto our second scene including young Elizabeth in Alex's living room! We needed to create a shadow of Alex projecting on the wall and we found creating this very hard. Eventually we found a bright desk lamp which worked really well! 

Overall we were very happy with the outcome of these shots! We then headed back to Alice's garage (Fritzl's cellar) to take some test shots!

We did manage to take a few shots of the Cellar scenes, however getting the lighting correct took a lot of time, so we plan to progress with this on Monday (7th March) morning and perhaps after school. 

The pregnancy flash back turned out reasonably well, Alice created a baby bump by using a hoody and placing it beneath another old cardigan (change of clothing, different dates) 

We progressed well on our first day of filming! And now that we have sorted out lighting and camera angles, we should be able to film quickly and smoothly!