Blog Task 43 - Production Reflection, filming 01/02/15

Our third day of filming was on the 1st of February, where we filmed in Broxbourne. The scenes that we filmed in Broxbourne are all due to appear within the dream scenes (throughout the title sequence). The main scene that we needed to film was where Ezhno (Jakub) runs through a dark alleyway away from a dark figure, within his nightmare. Walking through the alleyway in the early afternoon didn't give us the right effect as we needed the scene to be mysterious and intense, something we could only achieve in the dark.

Whilst waiting for time to pass and it to become dark enough outside for us to film this alleyway scene, we filmed the other parts of the dream scenes. The first one we filmed was where Serilda (Seren) stood amidst mud, leaves and branches, dressed all in black. We made sure that we shot this scene just as it was beginning to get dark, so that the sun wasn't too bright nor was it too dark to film - this gave us the perfect atmosphere and lighting for the scene, making it mysterious and building tension for the audience. Serilda blended in with the dark trees behind her which led her skin to look quite pale and ghostly, like something out of a nightmare, which went really well. She spoke one line: "you don't want your loved ones to die, do you brother?" which further emphasised both the dark nature of the film and her character. 

After this, we filmed Serilda slowly walking towards Ezhno and him running away from her in fear. I think this was something that we filmed successfully as we used a range of shots: over the shoulder, close up, and so on to help the audience understand what's going on, the relationship between the characters and the situation and also the facial expressions of these characters. This gave us a variety of shots and takes to choose from when it came to editing. We used a range of shots for the alleyway scene too for the same effect.