Our second day of filming...

Last night we went to the old darkroom of our school and filmed the rest of the shots we needed for our film opening.
We had previously taken lots of photos of some of our friends that look like they've been taken by the stalker and we got them printed off and stuck them up on the walls of the darkroom with notes around them, such as the names, birthdays and occupations of the people in the photos. We hoped this would add to the scariness of the stalker's character.
After we had set up the room properly we began to film the shots that were drawn on our storyboard.
The first shot was of Sarah's Dad (stalker) opening the door to the darkroom (no light) and then turning on the light and letting the door shut behind him. As there was a red light bulb outside the darkroom door, this had a good effect because the shot had the door and the stalker in it, with the red light right in the corner. The fact that the door was really old and creaky also added to the fear factor.
We then did a shot from the inside of the darkroom of Sarah's Dad walking into the room and turning on the light, looking at the wall of photos and then walking past the camera. We had to do this many times because we were using a phone light to show him walking in before he actually turned the lights on. This caused a bit of a problem because the light kept on going off, but we were hoping it will just add to the effect.

Our next shot was going to be a close up of the wall of photos and we experimented with using the red light from my phone's camera as a spotlight to run over all the photos during the shot, but in the end we decided to do a close up shot of one of the sets of photos, then Sarah's Dad dropped something on the floor and I panned the camera round really quickly to show him picking it up off the floor and developing a picture of Charlotte. This was an over the shoulder shot.

We had already hung up two pictures of me and Aimee gagged and one of Charlotte walking down road. He then replaces the normal picture of Charlotte with one of her gagged and then he puts a normal picture of Sarah up as though she is his next victim. We told him to look at the picture of sarah for a little longer to show that he is looking forward to it.

Also, on the pictures of us our names were written on them so we thought we'd use that as our credits, so I did a pan shot going from the

other side of the room just to show the surroundings and then to show our names as a close up shot.

All we need to do now is look at our footage and see whether or not it will be good enough for our final film.

First Day of Filming...

Over the half term we were given all the equipment to begin filming our film opening.
We began by filming an establishing shot of the house and Sarah's dad walking past the camera and down the alleyway next to the house we were filming in. We got him to walk down the alley from three different directions so that we would have more options when we start editing the shots.
We then filmed Charlotte walking out of the front door from far away so that the stalker can still be seen watching her from the alley. We had to film a shot from behind Charlotte as she was walking out of the front door otherwise we wouldn't have anything to fill in between him walking down the alley to him standing and watching her leave her house.
We also did a shot of her leaving the house out of the top window of the house just to experiment with angles and to give us more variety in our editing.


Then we did the point of view shot of the stalker following Charlotte down another alleyway after she leaves her house. We had to do this a few times in order to perfect it but it's difficult to know whether or not it will work when we cannot watch it whilst filming.

Our last shot was of Charlotte walking past the camera with the stalker following her. (We had also previously filmed a point of view shot of the stalker's hand grabbing Charlotte's shoulder).
All of us were really pleased with how the first day of filming went but also slightly concerned about the weather and how it would effect the continuity of our film opening, as the sun kept coming out and disappearing all the time, so we may have to do some more filming of the same shots.