Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Day Two of Reshooting

Today was very successful. We stayed after school again from 2-5 PM and managed to get all of the remaining shots, as well as correcting some shots taken the day before, such as the shot of Lionel encountering the dummy as he walks out of the room, which we shot from a different, and much better angle.

 We shot everything from when Lionel enters the next room up until the final attack, where the title card will be placed. With that last shot, if I'm being honest, we were not too certain of how exactly to execute it going into this, as it was very easy to make that part look cheesy so we wanted it to be as creepy as possible. Our director Pierce came up with the idea that the final attack should be from the silhouette behind the curtain grabbing Lionel. This turned out to work very well as it looked creepy, maintained the mystery as to who or what the shadow is and has a very valuable jumpscare effect.

 In order to take this shot, we did the same thing as yesterday that we did showing the silhouette through the curtain, this time I held the light from behind the curtain where Katelyn, the shadow figure stood in front of me, casting her shadow through the curtain.

When shooting, we stayed in keeping with the principle of long shots and over the shoulder/tracking shots as our main go-to in order to further convey the message that he's being watched and followed all the way through. These are some examples of such.


 At the end, we wanted Lionel to pick up the laptop that was on the floor, which had the words "I should have been there" typed out on it repeatedly, which we'd reveal after he drops it when being attacked. However, there was an obvious problem with that, as we did not want to risk breaking a perfectly good computer. Luckily, Pierce owned two of the same exact computers, one already being broken and the other one in good shape. So what we did was we used the broken one for when Lionel drops the laptop, and the good one when showing the screen.

Good Computer

Broken Computer



 Overall, today was very successful as we now have all of the shots we need along with several angles of each one so we have options, and we corrected some errors that were made yesterday. However, we still do not have the sounds recorded, so Pierce is going to record them once I have edited the film together so he can decide which sounds are necessary when watching it all together and recording them accordingly.

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