We filmed the "come home" plea in Amara's room - we decided to use this location as it was the largest and most unobstructed room out of all ours, and had good lighting.
Additionally, we decided to use a bedroom in general as the video we were filming had to look like it was completely homemade by two teenagers, so it wouldn't be in a professional setting.
Whilst filming, we had to think carefully about the shots we wanted, as the room we filmed has two large mirrors facing each other - so we didn't catch the camera reflection or any of our equipment in the footage, we decided to film it facing the bed. We also had Amara behind the camera, in case her or her reflection in the mirror was caught on tape, as this would be almost impossible to edit out, and take additional time to re-film.
We created realistic "MISSING" posters to show during this video, to add authenticity. I made the most accurate poster I could by looking at different, real life missing posters online and seeing what kind of details they would have on there, what kind of photos, and the general layout and colours.
The photo at the bottom shows Phoebe looking at the scripts we made for this video - we wrote out a general outline of what we wanted to say, and folded our scripts behind the missing posters we were holding up in order to be able to look at them whilst hiding them from the camera.
Some of this could also go into the production diary..
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