Filming #4

Today we filmed the 1920s scene. We went to Grace's grandmother's house because she had decor we felt was representative/we could dress up to be representative of the age. We used break time and one of our free periods to go down into New Malden and shoot, taking many many bags of clothes and equipment with us.

In general it went well, also I didn't feel like we got enough close ups nor that the scene was storyboarded to the right depth. However, looking back over the footage I think it looks suitably authentic and the shoot generally went well.

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COSTUME:For our 1920s scene we had put so much care into the costumes of the era. The four of us having previously studied 'The Great Gatsby', a novel set in this era, meant we were all knowledgeable about the fashion at the time and we had some great conversations about the best way to represent this. We wanted to dress up as high end 1920s women, as not only would this be a lot easier and more fun, but we could bring together the mise en scene for it much better aswell. I was also lucky in the fact that my family had kept an extremely old, handstitched velvet coat from the 1920s which belonged to my great-grandmother, which we also used in the scene.

MISE EN SCENE:
To properly connote that this was the 1920s, mise-en-scene was also imperative. Luckily, Ellen's grandparents owned a silver service from the era, which was the centerpiece of the table in our scene and really brought the whole shoot together.

During the 1920s the Prohibition was also in place: alcohol was illegal and only the higher classes with connections to gangsters could get alcholic drinks. We had dressed like the upper class, so it only made sense we followed this through, using the silver martini goblets and a cleverly placed Champagne box in the background to connote this.