Week 3 - 1st Week of Shooting

This week was our first week of shooting for our genre film, the first day of filming this week wasn't a very productive day in terms of how much work we got done. Most of the time we ended up changing how our set looked and made changes to costumes and lighting and didn't actually get much filming done. We filmed a few shots but by the end of the day we decided we wanted to change them and weren't happy with how they turned out. When it came to the last 2 days of filming during this week we knew exactly how we wanted to shoot each shot and got a lot of filming done. We ended up filming nearly our entire film, with only a few more shots left. We had to improvise when it came to lighting at some points and found a few pieces of black and white sheet that we could use to block out light coming in from nearby windows or make them less harsh. We used a large hand held light while filming which we positioned right next to our camera throughout the filming process. When it came to a few shots which we filmed in a really dark room we thought our main source of light was too harsh and too bright and didn't create a scary/creepy atmosphere for the audience so we ended up using an iPhone flashlight which actually turned out pretty well it lit up our actors faces just as much as we needed but kept the surround setting pitch black. The following week we will focus on finishing up our filming and making some final touches