Shooting the second scene

The second scene was in a kitchen, we used Aya's kitchen to do this part. The kitchen was used because it is a domestic room, and the fact that every house has a kitchen shows this characters' familiarity the audience could have with the audience. The size of the room was good because it was quite small which shows that the character was independent and living on her own, rather than a big sized kitchen suggesting it would be a family kitchen. This also helps in our aim to show this character is not a stereotypical female character, when she enters the kitchen we decided that she would not do anything to do with chores; instead she just put down a coffee cup next to the sink and turned to her laptop. As a group we discussed that this was a good idea and portraying her as independent would show something about her personality. Aslihan (me) also had to wear smart casual clothing to distinguish the sides of her personality- she had to wear clothing fit to everyday style to get a "down to earth" persona, and to portray her daily routine. Her hair was straight in this scene to also distinguish this difference, as in the basment scene she had curly hair (a more mixed style hence the "mixed" hair - something which hasnt got order - mixed emotions).

The lighting was very light. This demonstrated her naivity, whatever was in front of her she saw, except for the "stalker": he was wearing black clothing to give a "bad" impression. The laptop was an alternative which i came up with to substitue a photo frame or a newspaper because it was easier to use and it had more of an effect to educate the audience on what was going on.

On the shot when the phone rang, we used Aya's phone, then we used Vedat's phone to make the ring, as though the phone in the shot (Aya's phone) was ringing. We did this because on our first attempt we rang the the phone using Serhan's phone but it caused an unwanted noise because of the camera. We redone the whole scene because of that noise, however we didn't delete the scenes because we might use some of the shots.

We kept talking minimal overall because we used iconography and symbolism for the audience to solve the film's mystery (just like how the film's narrative involves mystery).
We left the news article on the laptop for the audience to see, we also have light and dark to represent characters' personality.
We improvised on the script, even though it had been written out, but we wanted to keep it natural- however the structure of the dialogue was still the same ("Hey you alright?... Ok, im waiting for you").

We used a close up on the phone when it rang, with Aslihan in the background. We did this to create enigmas, "who is phoning her?" "Was she expecting that call?". We did this shot to show her reaction when the phone rang, and also to show what she is doing (she was looking through her laptop). When the call is answered it is her friend calling to pick her up. In the shot the hand seems as though it can grasp the audience, this shot gives this shot a texture, it also foreshadows what could happen next in the film: taking something maybe, collecting a possesion...?

This shot was put together by me and Vedat. We thought it would be a good idea to keep this shot, the inital plan was to make the phone out of focus and then in focus when it rang, however we couldn't do this and instead agreed that it was fine as it was without the extra editing.