Choice dilemma

Today when editing I came across three shots of the stalker looking at the girls, It was not a hard decision to choose one, a shot of the stalker looking at the girl and the video moving perfectly to the the left without any jolts or zoom (thanks to Ashleigh) which was the perfect shot, until I noticed one of the carrier bags that we had left on the other side of path were Jessica was walking, we had previously moved our bag when we were changing the angle of the shooting but we must have forgotten the carrier bag lying next to the rock. The mise-en-scene was not correct, and it did look odd amongst the rock but I liked this filming more than the other one:

Filming #1 - Camera on stalkers head, filmed for too long before we can see the girl walking past, when this happens camera moves to the left but the zooms into the girl losing focus of her.

Filming #2 - Camera showing the stalker looking out of the tree, good enough distance to show the girl walking past whilst the camera moves to the left neatly, long enough to see the girl until she is out of the shot.

Filming #3 - Stalker tilts their head to the left when girl walks past, the girl walks very slowly and turns around to see if someone is stalking her but accidently smiles when she notices the camera.


Filming 2 is the best shot, so I decided to grab a couple of people around me who were not in my group because they already knew. I asked Laura to see their reaction then I asked Ashleigh and Jessica to see if anybody had noticed it. When we showed them, I told them that there was something wrong with the shot and if anybody could notice it. They all said no, when explaining it they had realised but they had simply replied
'It looks like litter to me, they're common in the woods because people are always walking past throwing things'
we decided then to keep the shot, it was not a drastic change to the filming and the carrier bag did fit into the mise-en-scene, to us it did not because we knew it contained our school books in them.