Poem 1 - shooting

On the 16th of January we went to York to get the shooting done for our first poem. We started around 10:30 am.

Me and Tom where there for using the camera and setting uo the positions of the actors and camera. Alex and our actress Luxi Zhou were also there to act out the scenes and make sure the scenes fit with the storyboard. Sophie was there to help out with everything and to set up the location for a later shot.

 

We spent the vast majority of the day filming the montage at the beginning of our poem, where the couple are happy together. This worked out well as we needed these scenes to be in the day time and the later scenes to be darker.

We were originally going to have the Alex and Luci change clothes for different scenes, to give the illusion that this montage was going over different days. However, on the day of filming it was very cold and needed to wear a lot of layers at the time. We decided to keep the clothe changes to a minimum due to the weather.

 

We managed to get interior shots in a coffee shop fairly easily although the first time we went it was far too busy for us to film in. e returned a couple of hours later, after having a lunch break to film this scene.

Since we were not going to have any dialogue in the Poem, the actors could talk about anything they wanted during filming, as everything was going to be muted. This allowed for some naturally looking acting.

We filmed happy scenes right up until sunset. We planned to have a timelapse of the sun setting, with the city in the foreground, however we all agreed that York didn't fit the bleak look we wanted for that timelapse. Tom would do the timelapse himself at a later date.

We then went to Sophie's house to film the final night scenes. By now it was 5:30 - 6:00 pm and very dark. We underestimated how dark it would be for this scene and the shots we filmed were very hard to see. We needed more scenes in a lighter time of day anyway, so we agreed to film the night scenes the next day in Leeds.

We once again all got together in Leeds to film the last scenes, we went into the city center, around 4:00 pm to film the sad scenes of the film. Leeds is a lot more busier and bleak than York so it fit better than if we filmed them in York. We used Luxi's home as a setting for the last scene. This time we rented out a light to help make the scene visible. This time it ended out a lot better than the filming in York.