PRODUCTION-The first day of filming-Elijah

The first day of filming

Our first filming session was at my house and we got many shots for the beginning of our opening. We made sure that we got a number of shots so we can have a large collection of shots so we can make a series of match cuts to create that jumpy atmosphere we want to create.  When we started filming the lighting was too bright as we wanted to create dark imagery for the beginning of the opening so we closed the curtain which was letting in the sunlight but then it was too dark so a flashlight on our phones was needed and this gave the right to give the creepy mood. The biggest problem we faced was keeping he continuity of the shots knowing exactly where the items was on the table to make sure that they don’t seem to have magically moved from a different angle. We wasted some time at the beginning of our filming session as we didn't have the pictures of the victims ready to put on the wall. This meant that we needed to print them out before the shoot and waste time having to cut them out and stick them onto the wall.

We could have improved our filming process by having had the pictures that needed to be stuck on the wall prepared before the day of the shoot. We could have also had a clear shot list in order to be able to quickly and efficiently film all the shots  
checking them off as we go along, whilst also knowing that no shot was missed give us more time to film any spare shots or new ideas that come up whilst filming.

Overall I feel that this was a good day of filming as we got a lot of good quality shots displaying the mood we wanted to capture and we got a lot of different shots from different angles to create a good sequence of match cuts for the first part of our opening.