Filming Day

The day we filmed (Wednesday 22nd October 2014) went very well and smoothly. Before we started filming we had to tell everyone involved what we were going to do which took us about an hour. We started off with doing all the shots that had to be indoors. The scene we started with the scene was the one where the grandmother picks up the letter that was posted for Roseanne. This was at first quite awkward to film because the tripod was in the way of her arm when picking up the letter. This is why on the actual footage, her arm slowly goes to pick it up, but we decided it worked well with the shot anyway.

For the scene when both the grandmother and Roseanne look at the photo of her with her family, we had to take that photo on the filming day. Luckily, we had a photo printer so we got the two owners of the building we were using to take it. With this picture, we were able to present a story about Roseanne's dead parents along with the narration.

The overall filming took about 4 hours to do. We were worried the dolly wouldn't move on the carpet just in case it was bumpy. Sometimes it was but luckily we managed to make it work, especially in the part where Roseanne walks out of the room.
Throughout the filming, we knew that we were going to edit it into black and white with some colours shown (primarily red), so for this reason we used red candles and tried to show as much of the red carpet as possible when appropriate.

We had to record a scene several times as the grandmother forgot the lines and what to do. Luckily after a while we managed to get the scene filmed and the scene looked perfect, although there were loads of outtakes that we had to eventually delete from the camera.

We made sure that we stuck to the storyboard well and we kept to the exact camera shots and movements. Also, we had to bare in mind that we had the narration that was going to go over the footage so the clips had to be long enough to fit onto it.