Location(s): Josh's house (Pencoed), Woodland's field (Pencoed) and the common (Pencoed).
Date: 2nd of December
Group members present: Hannah Martin and Jasmine Greene. Josh East is also present.
We wanted to use this day to film the majority of the shots in our piece that would be representative of the relationship between Josh and Hannah's characters. Josh had very little availability at this time, so we dedicated the entire day to filming all of the shots that we would need to be filmed in these locations. Unfortunately, there was very little availability with the members of our group on this day. However, as we had to work around Josh's availability in this instance, we decided that we must film despite only having two group members present. I was responsible for direction and camera work, as I had done on previous occasions, which mean that the footage did not suffer in terms of its quality and content, because I had experience in doing this.
As we were attempting to display the relationship between the characters, we made sure to include shots that connoted a normal relationship. However, we chose to dress Hannah and Josh in dark clothing, as we thought this would be symbolic of the misery that surrounds Hannah's character in this relationship, despite it appearing to be a very stereotypical relationship. Of course, it was necessary for us to capture shots that displayed a time when Hannah did feel at least some happiness in the relationship, which we made sure to film with good lighting. These were often filmed outside, as the natural light was bright and the denoted a content mood. We believed that including shots that showed a decline in the happiness within the relationship would help to anchor the narrative, as the audience would be able to compare the shots in which the couple were happy, to those when they are not, providing an explicit demonstration of the fact their relationship was disintegrating.
Happy:
We used this shot to be demonstrative of the happy part of their relationship. We did this by having Josh show Hannah physical affection, and by having the lighting quite bright. However, we still wanted to show that Hannah was not entirely comfortable in the relationship, which we attempted to do by having her not react to the affection. Her body language allows the audience to perceive that she is uncomfortable with it.
Miserable:
We used this shot to highlight part of the decline in their relationship. In this two shot, Hannah is positioned with her back to Josh. This suggests that she wants to put their relationship behind her and move on from this, and also, that she does not wish to focus on him as it would make her feel even worse. The contrast to Hannah acting unhappy, is provided by Josh sleeping in the background. This is reflective of how Josh's character is blissfully unaware of Hannah's character feels, and he feels very content in the relationship.
One difficulty we encountered whilst filming was attempting to achieve the birds eye shot that we wanted of Hannah and Josh lying in bed together. We only wanted to see their head and shoulders in the shot, meaning we wanted to achieve a close up, birds eye, two shot. Josh's ceiling is slanted above his bed, due to the nature of his house, which meant there was not a lot of room to achieve the shot. Additionally, I had initially planned to stand on a stool to film above them, but having the stool at the end of the bed meant the shot was not centred where we wanted it to be. Therefore, I had to get up onto the bed and stand between Hannah and Josh, in which I leaned over them to obtain the shot. This was safe, but as the bed is soft underfoot, it meant that it was difficult to maintain a shot that was not shaky.
Here are two clips that demonstrate my directing on set:
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