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Filming Session 1 - 11th Feb:
We mainly used this filming session to practice any shots or scenes that we thought would be quite difficult to film, and we also used it to try a few different versions of particular scenes to see which ones we liked. From this session we learned that certain rooms in the house would be too small to film the shots that we wanted e.g the ending where the antagonist appears behind the protagonist. We learned that we would have to move into a different room to film that shot. Before this filming session our group was worried about how the POV shots of the protagonist carrying the torch would look because of how dark the house would be in the story, but after doing some trial shots we realised that the camera picked up the light of the torch well and it still created quite a tense atmosphere. The main issue we had with this filming session is that we started filming very late, and therefore we didn't have enough time to film everything we wanted to before some of the group went home.
BY ADRIAN BAMBUR
BY ADRIAN BAMBUR
Filming Session 2 - 12th Feb:
Since we started filming too late in the previous session, we started much earlier this time. During this filming session we decided to focus on filming the scenes involving the moment the antagonist first becomes possessed, and his first actions that scare the protagonist. We decided to focus on solely filming these two scenes for the whole session as we all agreed they were the two most important shots as they had the potential to be very scary/unnerving or fall very flat. We spent longer than we wanted to when filming the part when the antagonist becomes possessed. This was due to a number of reasons. Firstly we didn't plan in enough detail exactly what the character would do to convey he was being violently possessed, so when it came to filming the scene we had to come up with what we wanted to film on the spot. This wasted a lot of time because the group could not decide on how we wanted the character to act when we became possessed. Another reason that the scene took longer than expected to film was that the actor portraying the character was not entirely comfortable with what the group was asking him to do, or he did not understand exactly what our ideas were, so he could not portray them to our standard. We learned from these setbacks that we need to plan in way more detail beforehand so when it comes to filming, everyone - including the actors - know what they are doing.
BY ADRIAN BAMBUR
BY ADRIAN BAMBUR
Filming Session 3 - 17th Feb:
After looking at the clips that we filmed in the previous session, our group realised that we would need to re-film certain shots because either we noticed some small error, or we thought it would look better if we changed them. Our group also realised that this filming session was our last opportunity to film before one of our group members went on holiday for most of half term, leaving us unable to film together. The reason this was such an issue was that this particular group member was starring in our project, so we had to film every part that he was in before the Tuesday, which made us rush our filming a little bit. During this session, we had a very similar problem to the one we had in the session before. Since we decided to re-film the possession scene, we had to go through the whole process of agreeing with the actor on what we felt looked the scariest and what conveyed the fact that he was possessed the most effectively. This took longer than we wanted - just like the session before - because we hadn't planned out exactly what the shot would look like beforehand.
BY ADRIAN BAMBUR
BY ADRIAN BAMBUR
Filming Session 4 - 20th Feb:
This session was mainly to just finish up and re-film any final shots that we still hadn't filmed, or we felt needed to be re-done. As we had filmed everything with Sam in it in the session before, we just had to film all of the shots we still didn't have with Tope in them. We found as a group, we got through more shots, and made decisions faster when there were less of us filming. This may have for a number of reasons, but I think it was due to the fact that there were less people that could disagree with decisions. This could be an advantage and a disadvantage because decisions get made faster and we could get more done in a shorter time-frame, but when there is someone that disagrees with the rest of the group when making a particular decision, there is the potential to come up with a better idea.
BY ADRIAN BAMBUR
BY ADRIAN BAMBUR
Filming Session 5 - 26th Feb:
This session wasn't exactly a planned one. It was needed as through editing we realised that we needed to re-film particular shots of the possession scene, and to further improve a POV shot that wasn't working initially. This session gave us the opportunity to use the red contact lenses prop, due to it arriving late in the post. Incorporating this idea made the scene more effective when we combined it to our already edited shots. This session went very well, as prior to it, in the afternoon, we accurately planned out exactly what we needed to film and how we wanted it to be.
BY TEMITOPE SIJUADE
BY TEMITOPE SIJUADE