Seeing as we have a double media lesson on Monday mornings, our teacher agreed to let us stay at home so we could use Alice's garage to film our Cellar scenes.
We had wanted to film all of these scenes, including flashbacks and Pregnant Elizabeth, on the same day so the lighting and camera angles would be the same at times we needed them to be.
We started by filming the opening and closing of the sequence, because although flashbacks are shown between, it is still the same time of day. Therefore the lighting and camera angle needed to be the exact same.
We decided that having the televesion as the only source of light was not bright enough, therefore we added a small desk lamp above the television. This created eerie shadows which were really effective!
We next filmed the close up of the Alice/Elizabeth's eyes. When previously filming this scene we found it tricky to focus, however we managed to find a way to focus and we can now see great detail of the eyes, which is actually quite scary!
After filming the present day shots, it was time to progress on our flash backs! We firstly re-filmed the pregnant baby scene, to make it more interesting. Rather than Elizabeth just rubbing her belly, she is shown sticking up the pictures which we see above the television (whilst holding her baby bump, still focussing on her being pregnant).
Alice's Dad then got involved and played the role of Joseph Fritzl. We used an old toy of Alice's and bundled it up in blankets to create the baby. During this scene Fritzl snatches one of Elizabeth's babies 'an upstairs baby' and Alice and her Dad performed this well.
Filming these scenes took a lot of time, we took plenty of shots of each scene testing different timings, light and angles. We decided that we would film the last two scenes (teenage Elizabeth) on Friday 11th March.
I feel we progressed well today and we are very close to finishing! We have a double Media lesson on Wednesday (9th March) and we plan to upload the clips we have filmed so far and start editing!!
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