Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Production day- Shooting short horror film

This day on 4/10/16 we shot our short horror film in Jamie's house, It was me, Maria, Jamie,Aaingel and Cale. It was a good fun learning experience. What we did was we borrowed a Panasonic camera and it came with its bag. A boom pole mic and 3 lights in its suit case. We borrowed this all for one night, from the technician room. TJ gave us all these equipment's and we had to sign off before we left the college. We then left the college with the stuff to prepare to film in Jamie's house. When we got their we saw Jamie's cute dog and we were playing and stroking it ,but then after that we got straight into filming. We first went into Jamie's room to discuss where were gonna film like the locations so, we decided to film in the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. We then took out all the equipment from the bags like we took out the camera and the tripod. I was trying to put the camera on the tripod but was kind of failing to so Aaingel did it. I then took out all the lights so we would use them later in the night scene and then Jamie took out the boom pole and also the headphones that came with it. As Jamie was preparing the boom pole him and Aaingel noticed that something was missing for it. Apparently the cable from the boom pole that is supposed to connect to the camera was not there, and that's a problem because then there would be no sound in our film. At first we thought maybe it fell ut of the bag but nothing did, we realised that TJ must of forgotten to the cable in. So we were quite worried and some of us were thinking to go all the way back to school to get one but that would make it to late. So we decided to just film anyway without the boom pole and we thought hopefully the camcorder would get the sound and our voices. Also we thought we could do voice over and get sound effects when we edit it.

These are the pictures of when we were shooting the film:










Camera
The filming camera that we used was a Panasonic for all our shots.

Lighting
We borrowed three lights and we when were filming we only used one. We used the lighting when we were shooting the night scene.

Sound recording
We shot our film and then we realized that their is no sound because we didn't have the complete accessories to the boom pole mic so we had to film without a mic. We hoped that the recorder would catch our voices but unfortunately it didn't so we had to work something out afterwards.

Cast
The cast is Me, Jamie, Maria, Aaingel, Cale. I was part filming and Jamie did the other half. Maria, Aaingel and Cale were acting.

Hair and make up
Aaingel had to wet her hair for the shower scene and be in a towel.  Maria and Aaingel  had to be in their Pyjamas. Cale had to wear the scary mask.

Here is the actual footage of the film 'a noise in the night'




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