Summary Of First Filming Session (23/11/2009)

The First Filming Session that we scheduled was on the 23rd of Novemeber on a Monday night. We had planned to shoot three of our primary shots:

- Boy In The Corner
- Bloody Hand
- Blood Spatter + Drips

To complete these shots, we set aside 2 hours after college before it shut for the night. We had previously decided that for our treatment to be effective we needed a younger boy, leaving us unable to use either myself or another one of my group members. We therefore asked Tom Burden's (Group Member) younger brother; Christopher.

The setting that we chose too use for these three shots was our school hall, the backstage provided the correct lighting and different settings, colours and objects that we needed. Examples of the location that we used are contained in the location shot posts. The only external props that we used where fake blood which Tom made (from a combination of washing up liquid, red food dye and water)and a candle.

Starting with the 'Boy In the Corner' Shot, we first created the lighting we need by a small light behind the camera and of course the lit candle. This provided the correct effect that only lit up certain parts of the set and the actor. We then proceeded to shoot, starting from a medium shot zooming in to a close up at a slow pace. We took several shots using the zooming technique so that we had a variety of shots to choose from when we come to edit. We then changed to a fast paced shot of a close up of the actor blowing out the candle, again we shot several different versions of this. The effect that we wanted to gain from this shot was that once the actor had blown the candle out the screen would be completely dark, this would allow us to transition to a shot that shows the name of our film.

The reason behind taking several shots for this sequence was due to the cameras zoom starting off slightly 'jurky' and some issues with the candles stability.

Moving on to the 'bloody hand dragged across the wall' shot, we used a well light close up shot of a wall and took several shot of the hand moving in different directions and at different paces. We plan to make a decision of which one to use during the editing stages.

Also while we there we decideed to film a shot that we hadnt previously planned to do. This was a shot of a shadow slowly entering though a doorway slowly. We came across this shot while playing with lighting and we noticed adams shadow though a door way so we filmed it and it worked well.

finally the 'blood dripping' shot was simple to construct as we used the same lighting from the previous shot, using a close up we slowly panned the camera down at a slow paced so that it recorded the blood trailing down the wall. We did several different takes of this with different amounts of blood, movement speeds and blood viscosity.

Our next Filming session is going to be on Thursday the 26th of November

A.Snowden, T.Burden, B.Birch