Evaluation Day 3

Filming Evaluation Day 3-29th Jan

We had to make several changes to our initial plan when discussing our filming plans for the exorcism scene.

Firstly, Alice's brother stepped in as a replacement for our priest as Paul was unable to film on this day. As a result of this, we also had to slightly change our costume for our priest character as we no longer had all the full priest outfit, therefore we opted for a plain dark suit alongside a white collar and rosary beads (which would still allow our audience to immediately identify our character as a priest).

Furthermore, we initially planned to film in an inside/room location (a spare room in Alice's house), however this had to be changed therefore we decided to film in Francesca's garage as we would still be able to create a sinister atmosphere and still have an element of isolation. This change in location also meant that we no longer had a chair or bed for our victim to lie in therefore we decided to have our victim on the floor as through high angled shots, we could still emphasise the vulnerability of her character.

On the day, we decided that it would best to meet straight after school. Francesca, Alice and I met at Francesca's house at around 3.30, whilst Rebecca went to pick up her sister and meet us. During this time, we were also waiting for Alice's brother. 

We began filming around 5:30, however, the daylighting wasn't an issue as we were shooting in inside anyway. After our victim and priest had been dressed and had their make up and props, we set up our set. Prior to this filming day, we had ensured to burn out some of the candles so that they looked worn out and were different sizes to emphasise the sinister-looking set which we wanted.

We laid out the candles in several ways for different shots. Whilst we were filming, we also decided to add any other additional shots which we felt would add to our supernatural and sinister setting. For example, we had the priest walk around the victim whilst she was circled with the candles. Also, we were able to draw a cross into the ground which we felt gave a twisted mix between our victims innocence with the religious incorporation of the supernatural genre. Whilst these were not part of our storyboard, we felt that these extra shots would improve our opening.

Evaluation

Positives:

• We were able to deal with problems (e.g.actors not being able to attend, location change).
• We were able to shoot a variety of different camera angles and lighting shots.

Negatives

• Battery running out-ensuring the camera was fully charged/battery wasn't wasted.
• Not being well familiar with our camera.
• We could have been more efficient-whilst our actors were getting ready, others could have been setting up or do lighting checks.
• We could have used more props to make our priest as easily identifiable to our audience as possible.
• We could have used more candles to highlight our sinister setting even more.