Filming the final scene



Example of wanted poster

Last Tuesday we filmed our final scene, which would be the last scene where the mental home patient would appear in. This scene show the patient running down an alleyway ripping down wanted posters from the wall, the scene will be a long shot so that we can see the whole of the character so that viewers are able to analyse her movements - the use of a long shot is important as we want the viewers to see her distressed expression but also they need to see her anger and frustration which is reflected through her actions. The scene leaves a cliff hanger for the viewers as we see Scarlets more innocent personality running away but they are not sure where she has gone - the scene that follows this one will show the villain walking towards the camera with the murder weapon so it seems as if Scarlet has ran away and returned as her evil persona. Both of the scenes leave an element of mystery that will really play on the viewers minds. To film this scene we had to create wanted posters, we took a photo of Scarlet holding the patient sign, last Thursday when we filmed a short scene showing the character holding the sign, we added text and Shona and Amy took them home and stained them with teabags to give them an old authentic look,this was done to relate to the year in which the film was set as we wanted every element to look quite old fashioned.
First we did Shona's hair and make up and she changed into her costume, we went outside to a nearby alleyway and tried to stick the wanted posters to the wall - this was very difficult to do as it was very windy and the posters would fall off the wall. So instead I had the idea to have an extra shot where I threw the posters and filmed them blowing in the wind, suggesting that Scarlet has already ripped them off the wall, we managed to keep two posters stuck to the wall so in the shot Shona was able to angrily rip them off the wall and storm off angrily, once we had solved the problem with the posters we were able to film the scene after two takes.
As this scene was a long shot, the viewers may not be able to see what Scarlet was ripping off the wall, so we added another shot where camera had zoomed into one of the torn posters. This allowed the viewers to see that Scarlet was on the wanted posters and that she was described as a threat, so she was never as innocent as she appeared.