Day 1 - Filming

 This was our first day filming, where we aimed to get a collection of short clips to be able to begin creating the trailer. Unlike last year, we are able to film over a longer period of time; the main issue last year was we were creating an opening two minutes so everything had to follow on in the same location, same time of day and also our main character Robyn had to look the same. This was the reason for all filming in a short space of time as Robyn had her makeup done specifically for it and it would be difficult to replicate the look and the costume.

The majority of this day's filming was in the same two places, the first being a bedroom where we captured clips of our young female character, and also the bathroom where we had planned to film specific clips. The first image here is off Jasmine, who assisted us with the filming. In the picture, she was just practicing and adjusting the tripod to have it in the position which we wanted for the first shot. As evident in the next picture also, we had adjusted the tripod to ensure that it was the correct height. The majority of the lighting here was from a small lamp in the bedroom as we were filming in the evening which meant there was no potential use of natural lighting. During this process of filming, we done multiple takings of each clip to ensure that we had more than just one to choose from, if there was to be any mistakes or slight errors during the clip.

To film, we used a Nikon camera; this was the same camera that we ended up using last year of filming. We were able to securely fit the camera onto the tripod allowing us to take steady shots, also it is simple to use. The quality of the camera has 16 megapixels which meant it was very good quality and picked up the colour and adapted to the lighting very well,


With filming at this time of year, it gets dark extremely early which would initially be a struggle for us to be able to get enough filmed in natural lighting. However this is not going to be such an issue as we are filming a horror, which is not typically filmed in daylight. During our filming, we used a lot of low-key lighting, so for example small lamps which gave us enough light to film at a good quality; but enough to create the more shadowy effect. This lighting is primarily effective and conventional in horror films. With some of our shots in the bedroom, there is use of back lighting, which gain did involve using the small side-lamp, however it was behind the character creating a partial glowing effect on the character in front.

The image here is of our antagonist who is an elderly women. The shot here was used during our filming in the bathroom, as shown in the image, the idea was to have her behind our protagonist. The lighting in this shot was very dim and in this image, it was only the flash on the camera that lit up the area. The colours of her clothing are significant, firstly coordinating with the colours around; and secondly, the colour white itself has many connotations such as innocence and purity... and in contrast the colour black has many negative connotations such as evil, death and fear. These connotations giving a clear representation of her character.