Planning

Today we discussed what genre our group are going to do (horror) where were going to film, who we are going to film etc. We came up and settled on ideas really quickly and easily planned out the whole story line. By knowing the whole story line the opening sequence becomes clearer and easier and we know what shots we will want to include. for example the setting will be where the 'murderer' grew up and we want to have a panning shot of old toys and teddies. These shots will then create enigmas and we will know the answers. Deciding on location was simple and we will go and visit out chosen place as a group to see if it completely fits our ideas and criteria. 

I made a mind map so I could clearly see all of our ideas. 

We thought it would be fairer for none of us to be acting/playing a character in our title sequence as that way everyone can film equally. As during our preliminary production Drew and Lauren were acting and unfortunately did not get to do much camera work. We are going to use a friend to play the 'killer' however still need to arrange other characters as our idea includes a group of youthful people which sets the equilibrium. 

Preliminary production

Four our preliminary production we had to film someone walking through a door, sitting down at a table, opposite another person. The point of this was to explore different camera angles and to practice not breaking the 180 degree rule.

We filmed character 1 walking through the door, and also a close up of them pushing down the handle. I think when these shots are then put together they will have continuity and the whole piece will look much better. 

Because the door we were using had a clear window in it, we placed the camera at a slightly low angle and filmed character two who was sitting, waiting at the table for character 1 to arrive. She looks at her watch, showing she is waiting for someone which then creates the enigma for the audience of who is she waiting for?

 At the end we filmed a zooming out shot, although i'm unsure if we will use it because it was slightly out of focus as the cameras we were using were not great for zoom.