Filming Day 1

Today myself, my group and the actors got together to film the abusive boyfriend scenes. We only had two hours to get to Kerstins house; the location for filming and to film and get back to school, which left us with very little time. Our ideas were put accross to the actors who played the part. On the day everything was very rushed and the realisation that the task was not as simple as we'd anticipated soon dawned on all of us in the group.

The images below were taken on the day:


This is an image taken from the shooting of the dinner scene where we see the arguement erupt between the pair.

This is the result of the arguement. Louises character ends up on the floor after being pushed. As you can see in this image, Louise is laughing. This was not part of the script, and was one of the contributing factors to why much of the filming was useless.

This is Eddie during his breakdown, this is where we see him feeling the guilt for his recent actions against his girlfriend. Eddie turns to drink.

This is where we see Louises character become very emotional. In this image I was applying the make up. I used a lot of black eye make up and then smudged this with water to make it look as though she has been crying.

This is the end result of the make up.

After watching back over the footage, as I mentioned before, much of it was useless. The main actor (Louise) seemed very evasive and unbothered by her role and this was shown in her performance. It lacked passion and she often giggled through scenes, which for the part she is playing as an abused girlfriend, is unsatisfactory.

After recent deliberations with the group, we have decided to re-shoot these scenes with a different actress playing Louises part. We will now be using Bethany for this part. She is someone who has taken acting lessons for a very long time and we have confidence that she will take the role much more seriously.