In my proposal I wrote about a girl dreaming about a visitation where a friend she lost visits her to tell her to leave the town.
I wrote about the girl going to sleep first and then waking up in a dream. However, I didn’t not film a scene where the girl is getting ready for bed because I realised I wanted to do something different. I wanted to show that visitations are some kind of dream, but you don’t necessarily have to sleep in order to have a visitation.
So because I didn’t film a scene where the girl is getting ready for bed, I filmed a scene where the girl is in a park reading. Here I wanted to also film a clip where a quote from the book she’s reading is related somehow to her dead friend. I didn’t do it because I could not find something in the book I had, to somehow relate to the girl. Probably should’ve found a book before, but the idea of filming this part came to me right before I went out to film.
In my proposal I wrote that I would film the girl finding the way to her friend, however in the park I could not find something to look like some kind of forest so I settled for filming the beginning where the girl is simply reading and the atmosphere changes abruptly. That’s when she realises and the girl looks up and sees her friend coming towards her. I did write that I am going to film in a park because near my house is a park and it would be easier for me to carry all the equipment needed.
Since I could not film the part with the forest, I found some big stones in the park and I thought the 2 girls sitting next to one would look alright. The good thing about these stones was that they were not where people usually sit, so it was a bit isolated and free for me to film. The weather kin of helped me, because it was pretty cold and not many people were out, however it was also a disadvantage for me as well because since it was really cold, we had to hurry with the filming so I suppose it did affect the film a bit, but that’s not an excuse. Next time I would choose to film when is more of a sunny day.
Also, the ending did not match the proposal, as I said I was going to end it with the friend disappearing smoothly and the girl suddenly waking up. I was going to make the girl disappear using a tutorial from youtube, but I there was a problem with the background, because I needed a one-colour background and because I filmed outside, I could not use the tutorial.