Phoebe and I began to film our coursework today. As you know, we are making a horror film trailer and so we have done the previous research on trailers, we planned out our trailer scene by scene and began to film the footage. We are actually making it into a short film then cutting out the best bits, that way we have enough footage to edit.
We started off with a few night shots around the school, we want to make the trailer look like its been filmed by amateurs so we have the "handheld" effect. However, we do want use a tripod so not all the footage is shaky. Some of the night shots ended up too dark and so we had to put a light behind the camera. We had to be careful not to make the room too light and take away the element of vulnerability in the darkness. We had to be really careful not too speed up our dialogue and give our actor time to move from one place to the next.
We decided that a really good shot was one where we filmed the door slowly opening but no one was behind it. The shot worked really well because the room was dark but a dim light was focused on the door so when it opened, the whole door disappeared into darkness which was incredibly effective.
We then started day shots but found out that when we filmed the outside of the building and tried to show a figure in the window, it didn't work as well as we planned. We had to co-ordinate so that the figure moved backwards slowly and zoom in on the camera and capture her face but not too obviously so that it ruins the effect.
We also had a lot of difficulty when we filmed the last scene where the camera drops on the floor and a hand picks it up. We couldn't just drop the camera on the floor because it would break but when we dropped it on clothes it would snap shut and turn off, resulting in the footage being cut off. After lots of tries of dropping it at different heights and onto clothes, we ended up filming it falling then cutting and filming it hitting the ground separately, so we didn't break the camera.
We still have a few scenes to shot before we are finished, then we will edit it in Final Cut Pro X before editing the footage again and cutting the best bits and putting them together for the trailer along with music, titling and credits.
Here are some stills of the shots we are using:
In the Great Hall
The Library
Mirror shot, Phoebe represents the figure that will appear at the glass
These shots are very similar but another mirror shot. Phoebe is at the back but just enough so that you can't see her face
Beth
Interesting to see location shots
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