First shoot

The first day of shooting took place on the 11th February. We started filming at 10 am, at the house location. We decided we would film scenes 1,2,7 and 8.

We started with scene 1. Alice is sleeping in bed, she hears music and wakes up. This would be simple to film, room had been organised the day before so we knew this would not take long. However, the first issue we encountered was lighting. We realised that as we were filming so early it would not look like nighttime. Luckily the bedroom we were filming in had black blinds and a black curtain, so we shut them. This got rid of the lighting problem, but now the room was so dark that we could see anything to film. Eventually we decided just to film with the lights on, these scenes would be in black and white so we hoped that it would not make any difference to how it looks. We finished filming these scenes in half an hour.

Scene 2 consisted of Alice opening the door and finding a Rabbit standing there spraying her with silly string. We filmed the silly string going on Alice first. The camera was placed over the shoulder of the Rabbit. This shot wouldn't be as easy as we first assumed. Firstly, the rabbit mask was hard to see out of so the actor (Lauren) wasn't entirely sure where she was spraying, but we found that she could move the mask up to see and it would affect the shot. Now she was able to see we tried again but when you sprayed out of the silly string its not always predicted where it will go, it can be facing forward but still go left. It took a total of about 15 shots to get it right. Now we had to reverse it, the camera was placed where Sian was standing and the Rabbit in front. We had the same problem with not being able to see out of the mask so we had to guide Lauren's hand. Then we found a clear rectangle of glass to place in front of the camera lens so it would be damaged by the silly string. This also took about 15 takes and 1 hour.

Once we had those right we moved to the next room (the kitchen) and started filming scenes 7 and 8. We encountered the same problems with lighting. I found a sheet of black plastic and taped it around the windows and any entrances that gave off light. We could have the lights on for this scene so that wasn't an issue. We played the song in the background so the actress could time the words right with the song. With all the numerous angles we got it only took about half an hour to shoot both scenes.

We finished filming at 2.30pm.