CONSTRUCTING: RE-FILMING AARON AT THE GRAVEYARD SCENE

My group and I travelled to St George's Church Cemetery in Esher, Surrey to film the grave yard scene for our film trailer. The shots we had to film included an establishing shot of the grave yard visibly showing the church in the background and head stone creating a sinister, dark and negative feel to the trailer as well as an extreme close up shot of Marcus (who plays Aaron, Sydney's brother). The extreme close up shot of Aaron (looking at Sydney's grave stone) would convey a strong sense of sadness, vulnerability and bereavement creating an emotional yet questionable atmosphere. This questionable atmosphere being created would attract and address audiences to come and view them film as they would be wondering why Aarons sister died and whether he played a role in her death.

We decided that it would be appropriate to film the same shots as before when Marcus and I filmed. We experiment with different camera angles and shots, going against the shot list, however we both thought it would be useful to have a variety of different camera angles and shots when we come to edit the footage just in case some shots were out of focus and we could use some of the new shots instead. Camera angles and shots we also filmed included: 

1. A planning, close up shot of Marcus sitting on a bench in the cemetery highlighting his vulnerability, isolation and loneliness in the empty cemetery. 
2. A one person, tracking shot of Marcus opening the cemetery gate and walking towards his sister, Sydney's grave, taking off his leather jacket and placing it on the grave.
3. A point of view shot of Marcus opening the gate of the cemetery, walking through the grave yard (with his trainers visible in the camera shot) showing the head stone of grave as well as him placing his leather jacket  onto the grave stone.
4. A panoramic, panning shot of the grave yard showing the church and grave stone visibly in the background.

Below I made a collage of the photos I took whilst filming using Fotor. Fotor is an extremely useful tool, like PicMonkey, that allows me to make a variety of different eye-catching and colourful collages of photographs I have taken attracting and addressing audiences to my blog. 

Below are a selection of videos I took using my iPhone of shooting at the grave yard.