Filming of Further Scenes

We recently went to Shotover woods to film some of our stalker scenes for our short film. Whilst there we discovered the difficulties of filming some of the shots we wanted. For example, we wanted to see the girls shoes get muddy as she runs through a puddle, however, our first attempt at this didn't work out and we could therefore not use this shot as the shoes were already dirty. We decided not to go back for this shot as we could use the time more wisely redoing some of our street shots. We are therefore not going to have this shot but rather just use another one of the stalkers feet splashing in a puddle.

We did however, have a lot of success filming all of the other shots we needed. We also added a few shots which we had not planned on before. One of these was the girl dropping her bag as she runs through the gate leading to the woods. We decided to do this because it wouldn't be realistic for someone who is fearing for their life to hang on to their heavy bag as they ran away because it would slow them down. This also made later shots easier to film as the actor didn't have to carry anything around with her whilst running. Another shot we decided to add was of the stalker tripping over a rock. We did this because we needed the girl to jump over a fence and this would give the stalker a chance to catch up. However, we didn't want the chase to end there so we slowed the stalker down. In order to shoot this we took a shot from behind of the stalker falling over and then a point of view shot from the stalkers perspective.