Day 2 filming: Today we done the shot at my cousins house, everyone arrived in costume and ready, so we could get started straight away. My cousin's husband had left his bicycle outside the house, which added authenticity I thought, shame about the modern day Vauxhall car we had to use never mind.. Little Evie was good put up with the being carried around and filming for the most part, but we had to hurry up towards the end as she was getting a bit angsty. It was a freezing day and I wasn't wearing much for this shot, so everyone was in rush to get it finished. My cousin took the role of camera women and with a bit of instruction from me got the hang of it quite quick and did some really good smooth shots, I was very pleased. We got a lovely bit at the end inside of the car with Evie on my lap. I would have liked a more smooth shot as we only done one take, but Evie was having none of it, but with music over the top hopefully it will come out with an emotional end to the overall clip.
Day 3 filming: This evening me and mum got to work on filming the close up of 'Stella' taking out the bracelet from charles and holding it in the air and remembering before putting it back again and returning to her packing. I wasn't really sure how I wanted this shot to be filmed at the time, so I had to kind of improvise. My mum was a great sport though, taking on the role of camera woman, together we came up with some good ideas and in the end decided to shoot the scene through the window, so off mum went outside in the dark, all the way round the back of the house and stood out in the cold, doing take after take, till we finally got some good shots. I didn't much like acting for this scene, as the camera was pretty zoomed in on my face and I knew it was going to be blown up the size of a house soon, but hey! you have to be professional, so I tried to see it from a directors point of view and act exactly how I imagined Stella would have when I read the book. I directed Mum a lot, but she had the same image I did and in the end we got what we wanted and could call it a day!
Day 4 filming: This last shot was slightly more hardwork than the others. I left this one a lot later than the others, as once i'd edited most of the previous work the excitment of shooting had kind of faded, but in the I got on with it, and asked my parents to get back in to costume and character and after a very longgggggggg time, they finally got their lines right, stopped laughing and I managed to get a half decent perfomance out of them. Phew. That was the last of the filming. My little sister had to take over the filming for this one as their was no one else to do it, but she did a good job! But it would take a lot of editing to get this clip to fit into the rest of the film! Best get cracking!
