Day of Filming

DAY OF FILMING 

Start - We started at about quarter to nine at my grandma's house in Thurlby where we were going to be doing all the main filming. We sat down for half an hour discussing our plan for the day so we were entirely clear on what we needed to do that day.

- We then started filming. We filmed a conversation between the two girls walking up to the street sign which said Swallow Hill on it which we later cut out of our opening. We also filmed the stalker walking up my grandmother's neighbour's drive to some eccentric electric gates which opened as the stalker walked up to them. Some other shots were of the girls walking through leaves and puddles and stopping outside of a house and looking.

- While we were there we also filmed a tree which is very tall and quite daunting as it was a pan up the tree is made the audience feel small and belittled which also helps create tension to the story.

- On our way to Clipsham in Castle Bytham we stopped at a old red telephone box and filmed the stalker walking in and picking up the phone.

- At Clipsham we recorded the victims running in and out of all the yew trees and being chased this was meant to be the effect of a large garden or grounds to seem that there was no escape and beginning the entrapment theme.

- For the final shooting of the day we finished back at the house. We filmed the porch light turning on and off while it started to rain, this in effect created the darkening atmosphere that we needed for our thriller opening.

- We also filmed the stalker walking through this small area which I call the "woods" at my grandmothers which is a small area off pine trees which makes the ground dry and crunchy with leaves and sticks. This, in effect, when filming the stalkers feet walking through we thought would help set the overall theme for our opening in the end however we didn't use this as we felt we didn't need it.

- The next filming was in the bedroom of one of the girls. We filmed one of the main girls knocking on the bedroom door and entering due to some sound and filming difficulties we decided to cut it as we didn't really need it. We also cut the shots we took of zooming out from the makeup table to where the second main girl was lying on her bed, initially this would have been our opening shot but it looked like it would be for a different genre of film so we cut it.

- Another shot which was a long shot to show the characters in their environment was when the two girls were having a conversation on the bed this was included and helped set the storyline, it also created mystery for the opening by leaving the question in the audiences minds "Why?".

-The last of our filming was of the girls when they were "damaged". For this effect all we did was wet our hair and smudge all our make-up down our faces and the white walls reflected off of our faces giving us a pasty un-well look. We took a number of shots of the camera moving backwards as the girls dragged their bodies towards the door reaching out and the door slamming before they could get out, the camera then panned to the window above the door where the two girls are stood with their hands on the window and then they disappear this effect showed the girls trapped in the house.