Filming, 5th Jan 2012

Thursday 5th of January- 2nd day of filming.

Gabbie, Jack, Christina and Felicity were the crew. Both our actors were needed to film.
Arrived at location 4.45pm. The time is perfect as we needed to film in the dark, to make our scenes as authentic and scary as possible.

The first thing we did was recreate the mise en scene from pictures we took on the first day of filming, We realised continuity was important and painstakingly recreated the scenes. This meant we also ensured the make-up on our victims face was equally the same, refering to past photos we recreated his make-up.

Placing Mise en scene

Doing make up

This delayed filming until 6.15pm, we then prepped our actors on the agenda for the evening. Our aim was to reshoot certain scenes, and film more specific scenes, that needed to be done. For example, we filmed a scene that was a close up on the flickering lightbulb, this was an important scene that we wanted to get right, as it represented our character waking up in the new surroundings (picture below).

Filming

Other scenes were more difficult to film and we had to overcome some problems. We wanted to get a close up of our victims face face on. It caused a problems as the pit meant the camera was further away than we'd like and the tripod (which we wanted to use to keep the camera steady) would otherwise end up in the pit, at the best distance for our shot we needed to be half in the pit, being the creative people we are, we came up with a clever way to overcome this. Gabbie used a sledge hammer to balance our tripod on, it was precarious for a while but we managed to get a great shot and it was worth it.



Solving our problems



We spent a some of our night doing preliminary shots, to see how things would work out. We had a lightbulb that could be dimmed manually and for some scenes that was vital as you can tell from the photo below Felicity became the expert in that field. We wanted to test distance and light in shots and by using ourselves instead of the actors we saved them time as well as us. We were then able to bring the actors in for the proper filming.

Prelim shots

Real shots.

Some other photos from our shoot:

Correcting mise en scene and checking our shots.

Enjoying the shoot.

Filming

Weathering Chair

After looking at the previous pictures of the chair, we have decided that it needs to be made to look more rustic and old. It looks to out of place againts the other furniture in the room, as it has a nice 'glossy' effect to it and the other furniture has old and weathered appearances.
To make the chair the victim shall sit on look old, I sawed into the sides to give it a 'damaged' and 'worn' look. I also singed the edges with a blow torch to give a 'faded' look.I then sanded it down so it was safe for the actor to sit on.

Before:

After:

Blood special Effects

To create an atmosphere evil, violence and to show that the room is a  torture room, I have made fake blood and painted them onto certain furniture in our setting. This hints to the audience that 'murder' has taken place before and is likely to happen again.

I used different amount of red spray paint, water and acrylic to create a liquid that would stay on the surfaces.

I flicked the fake blood on the chair the victim would be sitting on, representing a chair of 'death' in a certain way. I also placed blood on the head of a hammer to show that this was a murder weapon and it may be used again. I am pleased with how the 'blood' set to the surfaces but I was not 100% satisfied with how geniune it looked.

Location research

We have researched a possible location for our Slasher film. We have uploaded a number of images of the location. Please tell us your thoughts on them!

This shall be the only location our opening will be set in if chosen. We

were hoping for a derelict, abondoned building but have found a suitable and local setting. The location is a garage which has a variety of machinery and tools displayed in it. This suggests torture and creates a more tense atmosphere.