Second day of shooting

On Wednesday after school, everyone came round my house again to film the second part of our film. We have already filmed the scenes outside, so we were working inside on the bit when Amy signs onto MSN and starts chatting to 'Sam', her stalker (played by Elliot).

We began by filming some more shots of her walking away from the kettle as this followed on from our first day of shooting. We filmed a variety of shots such as from the floor, so we could see her feet walk away, and others mid-shots from in front and behind her.

Once we were happy, we went on to the study to film shots of Amy logging into MSN. I filmed an over the shoulder, mid-shot of her typing and logging in, and a hand held shot of her view of the screen to make it look like her point of view, which will hopefully engage the audience and make them feel as though they are her to create more emotions towards the character. Also, this way it would be clearer for the audience to see what is going on during the conversation between 'Sophie' and 'Sam', and how they both have pictures of different people, pretending it is them. The idea of this is to show they are both pretending they are someone they're not.. Sophie is pretending she is someone prettier as she is not very sociable and obviously very self conscious, and she thinks she is talking to a boy her age who is interested in her, but little does she know he is a lot older. She is the vulnerable one in this situation because 'Sam' knows who she really is, and what she really looks like, even though her picture says otherwise.

We then took a shot from above the computer screen, so you could see only Amy's face and her expressions, especially when he stops replying to her.. She looks worried and confused.

Finally, we then filmed the kettle from start to finish. This way we could use the sound for the entire scene, to create tension as the kettle gets louder and louder. I thought we could also use the clip and cut it into sections and place them in between clips of Amy on the computer, to build tension as the kettle boils to represent time running out for Amy before she meets danger.