Day 1 of shooting - 09/01/13

 My group and I decided that the best location to shoot part 1 of our opening would the old factory just off the main road to Kidlington. It has quite an eerie feel to it, which is exactly the effect we wanted to portray of our opening. The weather suited the setting, beginning to become dusk and very light snow. This set the tone and mood of our opening, signified quite a chill and somewhat negative atmosphere of Veronica's escape. We began filming with our handheld  camera by the main road right next to this factory, of Veronica walking sullenly and exhausted looking for a place to stay. We had no problems with filming this, as it was quite straight forward, expect for the traffic as one of our shots would mean stepping out on the main road at rush hour. We edited and cut time out of while using a slow motion effect. Adding to this we used a steadyhand camera for a purpose, we thought by using it, would give the opening (and our film) more of a realistic and biographical view, as if the audience was following Veronica through her journey and escape.

Once in the factory, we began by filming Veronica walking towards the factory. Whilst doing this, we came across a slab which had written 'welcome to hell...' we had the idea of erasing this, and instead adding our film title as it was a perfect space to write our film name on. However we decided to keep the 'welcome to hell...' as it added to the eeriness, especially negativity of the setting that Veronica would be part of. 

We followed Veronica through into the factory, this was done to show the audience exactly what Veronica would be putting up with for the night, especially to create empathy towards her. One thing that became difficult was that inside was quite dark, so became a little hard to film, however we overcame this by using a torchlight Alexandra had on her phone, which we used with the steadycam. Our last shot of Veronica for the day was off her taking her coat of and lying on the ground, when she was lying down we put the camera on the floor facing her, and a shot that we would include in our opening was of Veronica closing her eyes and using the fade out to signifie her transition into sleep, which lead into her nightmare about the man she stole from. We purposely didn't include any speech in our opening, as it helped portray Veronica's loneliness and and also helps set the atmosphere, as we are aware of how alone she is and that there is no one to talk to or trust.