2nd Day of Filming- Charlies bedroom

Charlie Bales Bedroom:

Our 2nd location which was Charlie’s bedroom, was slightly awkward for what we wanted to film as we later found out when it came to placing certain things in different places, we couldn’t get every camera angle right as you’d be able to see a poster on her wall, or her whiteboard, so in the end we had many shoddy shots. Her room is quite small meaning it was difficult to find a perfect spot to place a camera, as most of the filming was filmed as her looking into the mirror; I had to make sure the camera reflection wasn’t seen in the mirror.
Our props were put to good use, before the day of filming we went and collected what we needed, the wedding dress from a charity shop, which we then ended up altering slightly, considering it was 5 pounds, we thought it was a bargain, and that if it were ruined, we wouldn’t end up being devastated. Dec already had a suit from which he has worn previously. We went to a joke shop in which we spent about an hour choosing the hair for our newly wedded wife to be seen in. The most important prop was probably the rings, as these send out a significant message to the audience.

The 2nd location in Charlie’s bedroom has very much again low key lighting, this is supposed to be the most awkward and confusing part of the opening sequence so we didn’t want to be showing a large amount of light, instead of using the high voltage lamp we were given we decided to use one of the lamps from our props which was on the dressing table.
The performance throughout the opening sequence was subtle, there wasn’t an overwhelming large amount of faces being shown throughout but more, little parts of what they were wearing, such as the props. Location 2 at Charlie’s house we begin to focus more on the woman herself, every detail about her, so much so, as she takes off her makeup, we decided to use the camera as a mirror as she stares directly down the lens, as if to be looking directly into the audience.