filming alleyway

On Monday 1st March me (Ella) and Carmen filmed the Alley way scene and the station scenes. We asked two of our friends Liza and Jack to act for us. We had to plan exactly when to shoot the shots as we needed  the lighting dark but light enough to see whats happening in the shot. We met at 7:30 at Loughton station as this time was perfect as it was just starting to get dark but was light enough to see.
Firstly we filmed Liza walking out of the station, we stood a distance away and rested the camera on a shop window ledge, whilst Liza walked at a normal pace across to the alley way. We had trouble at first as the station was busy at times from when people were coming home from work, so we planned when to shoot it carefully. We were just about to start filming when a man stood completely in the way, but I think he soon realised and moved, after this we filmed and it was fine. Next we stood halfway down the alley way to film Liza walking found the corner and past the camera face on. As she reached the camera we panned round to see the back of her, we then panned back to show Jack as the stalker stood at the start of the alley way face down with a black hoody on. After this we filmed a point of view shot from Liza and then we did the same with jack, with Liza stood walking in front of him. We then filmed Liza walking whilst Jack tapped her on the shoulder, Liza turns around and nobody is there. We decided to film lots of different shots with different scenarios just to be on the safe side. After shooting some of these different shots, we decided to do a low angle shot of Liza walking past and then close behind her Jack was walking. We also filmed Liza walking down the steps of the alley way, I think this shot looked very effective as there was a bright light shining above the alleyway which lit up the stairs. We then walked to the other end of the alley way in which we filmed Liza walking up the stairs , we tried this from a mid angle and then a high angle. We had to then walk to Carmens house to film Liza getting her key out of her bag to open the front door. We had a bit of a problem here as Carmen does not have an outside light and we found it was way too dark to see what was happening so we switched Carmen's mums car headlights on to shine by her front door so there was a good level of light.