On the second day of filming our group was more familiar with the equipment and we were more organised with what shots we had to do in that time span. We had prepared a list of shots that we had to get done on that filming day to ensure everything is done top notch. We started of with the outside scenes as we started filming at four in the evening the sun was setting and it was getting gloomy. I was in charge the camera for the outside shot but I took advice from my group members as to how I should do the outside shot of the house to make it look more effective. We did the outside shot of the house first because we wanted to make sure it doesn't get pitch black and we are able to get the house properly with the right amount of lighting. Also, as we had chosen Faiza's house to do the filming for our teaser trailer, she had blue lights outside her house which we used when doing the house shot as the blue lights made the shot look more creepy.
Whilst doing the shot we had to make sure the blue lights do not appear in the shot as it would not make it look as effective. I had to keep that in mind while doing the outside shot. I did different shots of outside including pan shots from left to right and bottom to top. I noticed that when I was doing that shot whenever I hit the record button the camera was blurry and then it would focus later on. First. I thought it would make it look unprofessional as the camera is not focused from the beginning but when i showed it to my group members, they suggested that we keep that shot. As our genre is trailer a blur effect would make it look more appealing. Therefore, that shot we decided to keep as the blur effect was there when the shot starts but it gets focused as soon as the camera reached the portrayal of the house. This is useful as it would emphasise to the viewer that the main focus is the house and would infer that something bad is about the happen in the house.
We tried to keep all the shots in order of time as we realised that it would make it easier when it comes to editing as we would know which shot to put where when we are editing. The outside shot also included a shot of the silhouette, as when it got dark we realised there were silhouettes so we used that to our advantage and took a few shots of the silhouettes. Getting a silhouette captured in the shot was a bit of challenge as whenever we hit the record button the view would get dark and we couldn't see anything in the shot but darkness. We tried using flashlights of our phones to make it appear on the camera but it didn't work out. However, we decided to record that shot on our phone. As we were using her silhouette because she is tall, she recorded the silhouette on her phone with some effects and when we looked at it we realised it did look better than what was on the camera.
We also did a shot of someone running. Faiza filmed the shot whilst running. We didn't require a tripod for this shot as it had to be shaky for it to look convincing and realistic. Also, it was a point of view shot so it made it easier for us to film it. We did about three shots of this as we decided we are going to use flashes of this shot in the teaser trailer every now and then. Later in the filming process, we did the blood shot where we had to get a shot of the mother being dragged by someone, her going crazy and leaving a message for her daughter: "you're next". We had to write this on the floor with blood. We didn't obviously use real blood. We used another of our equipment that is fake blood to write this. Whilst writing it we realised that the fake blood was too thick so we mixed it with food colouring to make it more watery for us to be able to write easily. A little bit of ketchup, food colouring and fake blood gave us amazing results. Not only it made it look creepy but it looked realistic as well. We filmed the mother sitting next to the writing suggesting that she is warning her daughter and after that we did another point of view shot of the mother being dragged which just showed her hands.
After these shots we did the shots with the candles blowing out and the flipping pages of the book. We did this with the use of a fan, the shots were too long as the pages did not start to flip straight away so the length of the shots came out to be very long. Whilst my research in to horror genre I figured these kind of shots create a sense of suspense and leave the audience with a cliff hanger of what they mean. These shots came out very effective in my believe. Overall, our second day of filming was very effective and we were able to get many shots done. All the shots that were done were clear and we were really happy with our work for that day as the first day did not give us that many shots.
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