13th Filming - Alice taking the Pills

One scene that it is important we get right is Alice's suicide (she tries to kill herself through pills). Shown on this post will be how we developed this idea. Our first attempt was not very successful as I believe we did not think the scene through.

Our first idea was to have Alice take the pills out of the drawer and then open the packet and take them, however we felt that this was not effective, as shown in the videos below: 

Bird's eye view:

Behind shot:

Close up:

Side view:

Pills at the sink:

After looking at the videos we shot, we realised that our videos were not good enough. Firstly, Alice shows no hesitations in taking the pills. We needed to change this. From looking at videos we deicded that taking the pills at the drawer was ineffective, an instead we feel she should take them at the sink where the mirror is. This is because it can allow more hesitation and she can contemplate her last actions by looking at the pills by the sink, and herself in the mirror. Our re-shoot videos are shown below:

Close up of the pills:

Leaning over the sink birds eye:

Leaning over the sink birds eye (2):

Worms eye view of taking the pills:

Bird's eye view of taking the pills:

Worms eye view of her looking at the Pills:

Close up worms eye of her looking at the pills:

We also filmed her picking up the cup and filling it up. This is so we could maintain continuity if we needed it as she would not be able to swallow a large amount of pills without water:

Tracking shot:

Slow close up: