Filming Day Photos

We decided upon doing our credits this way when we were on set. We planned on laying them accross the tracks as if they were the actual sleepers but the sun became too much of an issue and we couldn't manage to get the still movement along the tracks from handheld or the dolly. Because of this, we improvised and decided that this could work quite well as the sun wouldnt not be an issue and the credits looked good on the front of a real life train.

This shot shows how much of an issue the sun caused because we were constantly having to be aware of our shadows being in the shot. Due to the fact that we did not foresee the sun being such an issue in the middle of winter on such a cold day, we started filming from one side and because of the sun appearing, we were not able to stick to the 180 degree rule beause the shadows of the tripod and the people filming was ending up in every sequence of film.

This image shows a complete view of our set for filming with the platform on the left and the train straight ahead on the tracks which we had to be careful to avoid seeing in our shots as another train cannot hit anyone when there is an inactive train sitting on the tracks that would be in the way of any train coming towards us. We had to use the area to the right of this shot too because the sun was behind us then and also, our film was not long enough without adding something in so we decided that adding Annabelle running away could be a nice touch and help add a little more to our production. Unfortunately, kneeing somebody in the head was hard to perform safely and it did not look too convincing on camera but we used it anyway as our film was simply not long enough without it and we did not have enough shots of other things to make it any longer without adding that scene in.

Overall, our second filming day went very well. The location was ideal, and the weather was quite like the first filming day except it was colder and the sun caused some issues for us. We managed to get all of our shots with the actors on site without too much difficulty although we probably didn't do enough filming and we did not have sufficient footage to play around with. Luckily, we finished filming in good time which this gave us the time to explore other techniques to use in our production.