Filming Day

The first day of filming was a madness. We had to start early in the morning, it was cold and nobody could be bothered. We refreshed ourselves with what we have to do and got on with the make-up and clothing for our characters. We test shot a few times before we got the right angle and shot we wanted so this took a while to come through. We clearly knew what we wanted to portray and show to our audience and the footage we got at the end seemed less but adding the effects in the editing suite encouraged our chances of the trailer looking horror by using the conventions used.

The first shot was filmed by Shreena shooting a close up of Rhiannon. This was an easy shot to take as the actress was standing still. Having a close up adds shows tension and lets us as the audience see and almost try and feel like them; their real emotion.

As a group we all took part in recording and the funniest part was when Maria was throwing herself against the wall as though she had been pushed by someone from behind. We had to take several shots for this because we werent pleased with whatever we shot after reviewing it. We then changed where Maria was being thrown and pushed from to test the best angle. We finally got the take we wanted and saved it.

We then shot Shreena running up the stairs. we wanted to have the camera hand held so i took a few takes from upstairs dominating the situation and Maria took a few running ahead infront of her. We used both the takes to show what Shreena's character felt like and also watching it from another persons point of view.

The next two shots were being shot from a distance. The first one was of the 3 characters outside second setting, the seclusion house. We only took a few takes of the scene as the actors were standing still and the main focus at the moment was the house. The other scene was outside the house where the camera was facing the window at top. At this point Maria and Shreena being in character, banging on the window for help, their facial expressions looked hopeless and like their strugling. After getting all our footage for the day we then went to the editing suite so that all the footage for the day can be saved for editing on another day, once all our filming was done.

The day was very hectic and tiring, however got a lot of filming done which meant WHEW!! for the day =)