Filming Day One

Filming Day One:

Today myself, Ashley, Charlotte and Jodie decided to begin filming for our trailer, however we didn't have a full understanding of what we actually wanted to do for our trailer at this point so we decided to record things in which we though would be good for our trailer. What we did do today was figure out what type of shots we could get and we practiced zooming, panning, close ups, long shots, and medium shots in order for us to get experience in using these shots.

The first thing we did was try to get the establishing shot of the model house which we wanted to use as this house from the outside looked like a stereotypical house which you'd find in horror movies. It was quite dark so what we needed to get some light on the camera so we used our phone torches and while shinning the light we were able to make it look like an orb flying past the house which looked rather creepy which we though could be useful within our trailer. We also go close ups of the house name which was Catville which we thought could be effective. We also did a panning shot of the dark horizon which was foggy and this brought up an eerie feeling. 

Once we had finished getting the shots outside we decided to go inside and figure out what we needed to do next. We all gave ideas of what we think would have been effective within our trailer and then we decided that whispers would be good but in order for us to relate these to our story we decided that we would say dates within the diary which is where the activity takes place. We chose four particular dates which were, 'November 16th,' said by Ashley, 'December 21st,' said by Jodie, 'January 24th,' said by myself and 'February 27th,' said by Charlotte' we then added an occasion where the activity build on each of these days and these were, 'New victims,' said by Ashley 'you find me,' said by Jodie, 'I have your soul,' said by myself and 'death's due,' said by Charlotte. We then decided to make these reading more intense by combining them all together to make it sound like a muffle of voices which created great intensity for our trailer. We decided to use these dates as it would correlate to the month in which the film is due to premier so we decided to spread it across four months keeping it close within the season of winter. Finally we recorded Jodie's little sister screaming as it is common for horror trailers to use this technique as it gives the audience a shock and would make our target audience want to go and see the film.