Filming Day Three

Props Used
Pregnancy Test
Bags

The final day of filming was very busy. We first of all started the day at Zara's house, filming the pregnancy test scenes. Zara was very distressed that her bathroom was not immaculately clean but i reassured her it would yet again add to the realism of the piece. We had bought the test from the local chemist. The light in the bathroom was amazing, some of the shots in the restaurant were particularly dark and there was not much we could do to change it so we were both very happy with the bright light here. I then displayed my best acting skills and tried to react to a positive test as naturally as possible. We shot my reaction from different ranges as a close up to convey my emotions would be effective in the video. After a quick lunch break off we went to Swanley station, camera and tripod in hand. This was not as all as easy as we presumed it would be. We first of all filmed scenes with my dad who is a London black cab driver. He waited outside the station in his cab and i had to ask him to go to Oakfield then jump in the back. There was difficulties getting myself in whist showing i was pregnant but overall we was happy with these shots. The filming inside the station, however, was much harder then expected. I had difficulties getting on the train, shutting the doors and then walking to the camera without getting in any ones way that was using the train. I also rather shamefully, after condemning Tom and Simon began to Laugh a lot with Zara at the situation, (walking around with a pillow up your top to look pregnant gets you a lot of stares!) After a while we got the shot and captured me saying "I've come back to tell you something to the camera". I watched the clip back while we was at the station and the dialogue was terrible! you could not hear what i was saying over the background noise of the train and the lighting was too bright to see my face. I then came up with the idea of shooting my narrative separately, having me speaking to the camera with a plain background behind me. I drew inspiration for my idea from the Sam advert that we remade during which she talks to the camera throughout. It was not possible to film this today to another day was scheduled for next week and off i went to write my monologue script!