Print Screens!

Here are some print screen shots from out first day of filming!

This is a screen shot from one of my favourite clips that we filmed. The lights start viciously flickering and as the lights flash on you see the girls jumping together and the little girl peering round the corner. This is effective as the audience can see that the little girl is their, but the girls cant!

In this shot we are filming from the bottom of the stairs looking up to the upstairs landing. This is a low angle shot looking up at the little girl and gives the idea that the girl is of a higher status, she has the power to do what she wants too. We used dim lighting for this shot with just a light on downstairs to show that she is some where that she shouldn't be. The little girl walks across the landing and stops and stares in the mirror, with the lighting dim it gives a mysterious effect.

I think this is a very effective shot. The camera focuses on the girls just chatting and reading the paper, but then the camera zooms in on the light, and when it zooms out, the little girl appears behind them, spooking staring at them. This is again effective because the girl just appears out of no where, but the girls are unaware that she is there.

In this shot we wanted to create the effect of the camera being dropped and left on the floor, and then you just see the little girls wellie boots walking past the camera. We decided to use this shot to try and intimidate the audience, remind them that the little girls holds all the power. 

In this shot we used a simple dark room and a torch. The room was pitch black and we had the camera rolling, but at an unexpected time the little girl turned on the torch and shined it under her face. Each time she turned on the torch, we zoomed the camera in slightly so it gave the effect of the girl getting closer and closer to the camera. This is to make the audince feel scared of the little girl, and the unexpected flases of her face may again intimidate the audience.

Filming!

On Wednesday 26th October, we decided to start filming some of our trailer. The filming went well and we got some good footage that we can include in our trailer, but as we anticipated, there were a few problems, but these can be easily resolved.


We originally wanted the footage to be shot when it was beginning to get dark, to give a spooky feel to the trailer, but when we arrived at Jo's house and were ready to film we realised that, as it was early evening, the light was too dark and it was making the quality of the footage look poor, but we decided to carry on and make the most of the time we had.


Due to the fact that it was getting dark we decided to leave the outdoors filming for another day and get on with the filming indoors. We had a list of ideas that we wanted to try out and also had our storyboards to hand so we could remember what we had already planned down.


We had a lot of fun when filming the footage, and we found it easy to work with our actors as they participated well and listened to the information that we gave them, and also helped us develop our ideas further with their own input which helped a lot.


Myself and Jo shared out the work equally. We think that it is important that we both do the same amount of work so we spent a equal amount of time on the camera filming, and both participated when directing our actors. I think we work well together because we both have a similar vision of what we want at the end, and we share ideas well and then both talk to try and develop these ideas. This was an advantage to us when filming because we communicated well and tried out a range of idea which we can then look at in editing and come to a decision about what worked best.


Although we managed to get a lot of successful footage, when we put it onto the computer and were able to look at it properly, we saw that there was a lot of improvement to be made on some shots. We thought that this was going to happen, and it was beneficial to us because we can now see what parts worked and what parts we need to improve. We are therefore going to have another day of filming where we can shoot some new ideas and also re-shoot some bits that didn't go to plan first time.

Title and Tag-lines

We created a mind map of possible titles and tag-lines that we could use for our horror film. There are our initial first ideas and are planning to narrow these ideas down to a few that we like and carry out a mini questionnaire asking some peers which titles they like best and which tag-lines they feel will be most effective. We want an attention grabbing title that sticks in the audience's mind and a tag-line that is short and catchy, that sets the tone of the trailer. We want people to be drawn to the film by the Title and get them thinking with an effective tag-line.

After asking some peers which of the titles and taglines they liked best we managed to narrow it down to a possible two:

1. UNINVITED - You can run, but you can't hide!

2. CAPTURED - Expect the unexpected!