Filming

So this weekend we brought the weeks of planning and preparation together and put it on camera, and I can gladly say that so far things are looking good. Just want to say thanks to Rosie Leathers for allowing us to shoot at her home providing us with a location that I personally felt worked better then I first imagined. We did consider other locations before filming at Rosie’s house. Me and Josh had checked out a rundown cottage in Woolpit and although it looked very good from the outside it was near impossible to film inside. We did think of filming the outside of the cottage then bringing the camera inside of Rosie’s house but the contrast was too great for it look believable.
Although Rosie’s house worked well on the whole, we did however experience minor difficulties. When we went to shoot the corridor scene we realised that the camera dolly was too wide for us to track down smoothly, so we decided to do several stills getting closer to the end each time, since this cuts the scene up we will have to cut in with pictures of the victims provided by josh.
We may have to go back during the week a reshoot a couple of scenes since lighting was a slight problem with both the camera and natural lighting coming through the windows, our final scene may also have to be reshoot but this can easily be done inside of school if it is a problem to shot at Rosie’s.
I feel that overall it was a successful day of filming getting all the provided shots; I also feel we worked well as a group with little to no disagreements, Kat took role of director whilst I filmed the majority of the project with Kat helping out with the opening scene. Josh set up the room and provided us with an excellent final map. We are now looking forward to see how it shows on the Mac and editing the piece.

Update #3

Just finishing up the items needed to construct the 'victim' map. Printed off headlines and news articals that i've written to accompany the polaroids. Bought pins and string from the shop (99p each) and have a map prepared for the background. Written out a basic idea for some shots to be used during the montage and will be filming later today. Kat has the camera and a pin board for the background and Goring is bringing story boards etc. Will post soon to tell you how filming went.

update

Just a quick update on our progress, our storyboards are finished but i don't think we'll put them on the blog as my art work is shocking! Our narrative has been fine tuned and we are collecting together props; polaroid camera shots of blonde young women, items to assemble the map with.

We have chosen a location; our friends house- not very imagentitive but we wanted somewhere with quite a long corridor in order to track down very slowly towards the room where our mystery pro/antagonist will be assembling the map of "victims". We contemplated shooting it somewhere quite run down, but then decided an ordinary house would be more creepy as it would be soewhere the audience would be able to relate to and "things that can happen behind closed dorrs" is quite a chilling statement, also it won't make our opening seem too horror. Choosing which house to use did not take much research.

Josh has done our Shot list, and James is currently scoring our soundtrack. The camera is booked for this weekend, so hopefully if all goes well we will begin editing on monday! think that is all for now...