Re-filming. 11/04/10

Due to the feedback that we got from other students on our draft piece, we realised that we needed to do a bit of re-filming and re-capturing. We were told that our flashbacks were too short and could be mis-understood.
Also Sarah had come up with a good idea for the ending as we had just sort of left that part out in our draft. This involved Ellie actually getting to the house and finding the phone off the hook as though someone had been in her house and then she would pick up the phone and would hear a voice on the other end breathing heavily.
This idea was gradually added to as Rob came up with the idea that the phone would be on the hook and Ellie would slide down as she got into the house in a sort of depressive lump.
We also needed to re-film the scene in which Ellie is sick and then swigs on the wine bottle as some of the viewers did not understand exactly what it represented. This was due to the fact that she did not 'gag' as much as possible and therefore nothing could be heard.
As the boys did not turn up til a little later, we decided to do the first scene without them and in the re-film we made sure that we could hear exactly what was going on. The only downfall was that there was some light coming through the bathroom window as it was a sunny day, but in the edit we will try and make it a bit darker.
Moving on, we filmed Ellie walking through the door from the outside so that we could cut from that, to her walking through the door on the inside. The boys then turned up and we did more shots of Ellie walking through the door on the inside and also slumping down to the floor before the phone rings. We had to do this scene a few times as we werren't too happy with the angles each time and Rob came up with the idea that she should put down her bag as she got through the door.
We then needed to film the phone as it rang, yet I thought we should do it from a range of shots and therefore thought we should do it through the staircase and from a separate angle of her crawling to the phone to pick it up.
After these were done we needed to film Ellie actually answering the phone, I had the idea of Aidan actually ringing the phone and breathing down it, but it could not be heard on the film and therefore we needed to do a voice over after we had the right shot of Ellie answering the phone and a close-up of the handset to ensure that when we came to editing we would be able to show the voice over.
Filming was then finished and all we needed to do was edit it all into the finale that we wanted.