The Second shoot - Friday 5th
I was really looking forward to our second shoot as we had some good new ideas to work around especially for Laura. Unfortunately although we had to re-shoot all of Barney’s street shots due to a smudge on the camera screen, he was very ill and therefore we had to re-schedule his shots for next Saturday.

However we decided to go ahead with Laura’s shots and I think it went very successfully! We reshot the downstairs corridor shot adding more light and making it more sinister by lighting the candles on the wall. This was very effective. We also re-shot the picking up knife shot adding more light so the knife showed up better. We had a problem of Barney not being there as the silhouette at the door but Alice too his place instead, putting on a black coat and holding the rose.

According to Miss Blackborow’s advice, we added some more shots of Laura in the shower, turning the shower off and stepping out the shower. I think all of these worked well and will add to the build-up and help introduce the character more. We will replace the pan of the dressing table with this as it will work better for continuity and use the pan later on.

I am looking forward to capturing these new shots as it will be interesting to see how the cross-cutting works and I’m sure the better lighting will improve the quality of our opening sequence.