Facebook event

For the party scene in our trailer, we will be needing quite a few people so we decided to make a group on Facebook.  This means it is much easier for us to talk to all the people at once and everyone will know what is going to happening during the filming.

First day of filming

Today we filmed all of the inside shots of our trailer with Megan and Mark.  We had some problems with the lighting as we were filming during the day (as that was the only time we were all free) but our trailer needs to be in the dark.  We closed the curtains in the room and lit some candles to try and sort the problem and we thought that it was looking ok.  However, now we have watched what we filmed back we can see that some of the shots have different lighting, e.g some shots are very dark and some shots are very bright.  We have decided to re-film all of this again, but with different actors as it is hard for us to get Megan and Mark during the evening.
We are now using Alice and Ellis and are filming next week during the evening.

Below is a video of us setting up to film with Mark and Megan, as you can see by us trying to black out the windows, that we had issues with lighting from the start.

Update on today's filming

Unfortunately we were unable to film what we planned to today.  This was due to our location not being available for us today.  However, we will be filming on Monday 29th October.  We are planning to film all of the inside scenes with Jason and Ella as well as the master shots of them outside the house.  Once this has been filmed, we will only have the party scene to film and we will be ready to start editing and adding titles.
Instead of the filming today, we completed our animated storyboard and did some shot experimentation, both will be posted shortly.

Filming Can now begin!

We are now ready to start filming our feature trailer as we have completed all the planning for it, including the filming schedules which will be posted onto the blog soon.

Our first filming session will take place tomorrow, October 25th.  We will be filming the inside scenes where Jason and Ella start noticing paranormal activities. 

Shot experimentation

Below is a montage video of experimentations of the difficult shot in the bathroom that we are planning to use in our trailer. We are still not sure how we are going to master the shot, At the moment the idea is to make it 3 separate cuts. However if this becomes too difficult we may find a different way of filming this particular scene.

Storyboard

We have now completed creating our storyboard in pages.  Now we have done this, we will be animating it using iMovie and then adding an idea of sound we will use in the actual trailer. However this will not be the official soundtrack we are using in the final piece.

In our storyboard where the shots say "HOW LONG WOULD YOU LIVE?" in between each word we will have a series of fast cuts. These will be of Ella and Jason running, flicking lights, Ella being dragged along the floor and the scary figure in the garden. We have not presented these in our storyboard incase we decide to do different fast cuts. However we will update our blog with any details of changes to our storyboard.

Casting shots

We have taken casting shots of Alice (the protagonist), Kirsty, Lily, Jessie and Ellis who all play the other characters that take part in the experiment. Kirsty as well as playing that role also plays the role of the masked figure.

Alice Foster

Ellis Simmonds

Kirsty Smart