Day 1 of shooting - 09/01/13

My group and I decided that the best location to shoot part 1 of our opening would the old factory just off the main road to Kidlington. It has quite an eerie feel to it, which is exactly the effect we wanted to portray of our opening. The weather suited the setting, beginning to become dusk and very light snow. This set the tone and mood of our opening, quite a chill and somewhat negative effect of Veronica's escape.

We began filming with our steadyhand  camera by the main road right next to this factory, of Veronica walking for either a hitch hike or a place to stay. We had no problems with filming this, as it was quite straight forward. We edited and cut time out of. Adding to this we used a steadyhand camera for a purpose, we thought by using it, would give the opening (and our film) more of a realistic and biographical view, as if someone was following Veronica through her journey and escape.

Once in the factory, we began by filming Veronica walking towards the factory. Whilst doing this, we came across a slab which had written 'welcome to hell...' we had the idea of erasing this, and instead adding our film title as it was a perfect space for writing. However we decided to keep the 'welcome to hell...' as it added to the eeriness, especially negativity of the setting that Veronica would be part of. 

We followed Veronica through into the factory, this was done to show the audience exactly what Veronica would be putting up with for the night, especially to create sympathy towards her. One thing that became difficult was that inside was quite dark, so became a little hard to film, however we overcame this by using a torchlight I had on my phone, which we used with the steadycam. Our last shot of Veronica for the day was of her taking her coat of and lying on the ground, when she was lying down we put the camera on the floor facing her, and a shot that we would include in our opening was of Veronica closing her eyes and suddenly opening them, which would then lead to her flashback which would be filmed in the second part of our shooting. We purposely didn't include any speech in our opening, as it helped portray Veronica's loneliness and also helped set the mood of the setting, as we are aware of how alone she is and that there is no one to talk to.