A few weeks back, our group began and finished filming our main project. We met up at Emma's house during the afternoon and began to test shots and walk around the set. Surely enough after we had decided on the main work flow and if the camera angles and shots we picked worked or not (making changes where applicable), We began filming the main film, we worked mostly in order of how the piece goes, the only part that was different was the outside shot of Emma opening a window, which he had to do because night time was kicking in.
As well as filming I took a sample sound of Emma making distressed groaning noises with an external microphone to add later. The filming worked quite well, however a few things did did not go according to plan.
Firstly the red contact lens's we bought did not get used due to lack of practice putting contacts in, Catherine and Emma both found it difficult, and the lens's dried up, one lens was stuck in the small bottle they came in. We could have avoided this by using other contact lens's to practice before hand, so that both Emma and Catherine were confident before we filmed.
Secondly towards the end of the project we were starting to run short on time, after working out problems with the TV which showed the Play/Pause symbol whenever we stopped it, the camera ran out of battery, luckily I brought the old camera we used for the preliminary, which didn't look as good but unexpectedly added an interesting effect with it's increased level of noise in the footage. Some ideas as a result were lost, however we worked around it just fine and hopefully will produce a convincing-enough horror opening.
Below are photos and videos pre-production.
The red contacts we bought to use, unfortunately they were fiddly and we didn't make sure Catherine and Emma were comfortable putting them in before hand.
Emma by default had a big bear in her room in her bed, we thought it worked well with showing the audience how innocent Emma is.
Georgia talking about certain ideas and recording them, behind her is a large wall stencil which we avoided showing.
We looked at certain teddy bears and stuffed animals to further show the innocence of Emma
Same as above
We also looked at possibly including the little statues and the friend photo.
We added small stuffed animals on to the big bear, him hugging them show how they are protected, yet Emma is vulnerable
We tested out different lighting ideas and discussed how we want to do our shots
We payed attention to detail, trying to make sure there were no continuity errors.
The free fake blood from my families shop proved to look more effective than we originally thought it would.
Catherine also took some photos behind the scenes.
