How The Opening Scene Was Filmed

The opening Scene took a solid 4 hours of  constant filming on the 3rd of march 2016. The location of filming was Jamie's house and all the way to the den at biwaters. To get to this location I had to bus it to clay cross to meet Jamie. Once arriving at 5pm we got straight into the recording, the first  scenes were recorded by putting the camera on a tripod to get a middle shot of Jamie seeing the text we then did a variety of other shots through out the house to show him running to biwaters. In jamies house we also filmed the 2 years before clips to save time, so I didn't have to go back to his later that day. after this we then filmed all the match on action clips to bi waters, by just moving certain distances and placing the camera to record just looking at the surrounding locations to think of some unique shots such as the puddle shot. When we arrived at the location for the hanging scene we checked the location thoroughly to make sure it was safe to record the scene. This involved checking the strength of the branches so they didn't snap resulting in me gaining an injury or actually hanging myself when pretending to put my head through the bike lock. After multiple branches snapping when testing them we finally found the right one which was strong enough to hold me, we the set up the camera and I hung by my arms so you could just see my legs in the shot. For the last scene of my head Jamie stood on a wall and lifted the bike lock up, to give it the effect that I had hung my self, we then had help from another media student Jon-jo to set up the camera so it looked legit.


Throughout all the clips we used a flash light as the surroundings were pitch black. the light was used as we felt our film would look best in the dark, so a light was needed to illuminate Jamie running to me.