Collectively our group decided we wanted to manipulate the opening scene by enforcing our controlling idea of water as early on as possible. This in turn enhances the unconscious minds of our audience to have water and swimming in their thoughts throughout the short film. Yet we wanted to create two sets of images. The first of which is that the male lead is comfortable in the water as he is a strong swimmer and has no fear when dealing with it, yet we did not wish to associate this with the second imagine of him in the pool for the scene of his death. We finally came to the conclusion that the best solution would be to film the opening scene in a separate pool, preferably a public pool. Yet permission is needed before we could film. Since it is not permitted to film in most public pools it was then decided to ask the Shenfield P.E Department if we were able to use the school pool. With the permission of Mrs. White we were able to film on Thursday 30th September 2010 and Thursday 14th October 2010.
Since this post was first published we have had to ask permission to film here several more times, for re-shooting and re-framing some scenes. these dates are as follows Wednesday 17th November and Thursday 16th December. On these dates Mrs. White again agreed to letting us film with the exception of a member of the P.E. department sitting in on our filming session due to health and safety.
