When arriving at our location, naturalistic lighting looked suitable enough for some light to enter through the Garage windows. Therefore, my group and I managed to reach our arrival time in order to proceed our project.
At first we had to clear out the Garage and get our props and mise-en-scene located. Clearing the Garage was not so hard, but painting over symbols such as smiley faces was time consuming. However, only a few of these were needed to be covered.
Once the painting had been complete, it's colour did contrast with the white. However, with the lighting and in the film, this did not hugely appear.
Initially, my group and I were going to use a tattered bed. However, a mattress was found and used instead. The mattress was an appropriate convention for our genre, as it was already quite old looking and tacky. Holly made the mattress even more conventional, by spreading bits of dirt across it.
After the Garage had been cleared out, and the mattress along with other props such as the wooden pallets, had been put in place, we were ready to film. Although it was darker than we expected when we began to film, our use of lighting helped us. Our light was powerful enough to make our mise-en-scene visible enough in the film. The light also gave our set a sinister look, being conventional to our genre.
As rope was hard to find, we decided to use pillow cases to form the conventional picture of the possessed girl being tied up. If these pillow cases were pulled too much, the pallets would fall down. Therefore, Mia's sister Neve had be extremely careful with her movement.
To signify a possessed girl, Neve had her hair covering her face. Costume was also used effectively to connote a young, innocent girl, vulnerable to possessive demonic forces. A grey nighty was used. The colour grey had connotations of eeriness, which would later suit her possessive character.
Our first footage was going to be filmed on a small digital camera, which had to be firmly placed at the top corner of a shelf. This was to ensure that the mattress was captured in the film. Setting the camera so that it would rest took us a few times to get right. Eventually however, after about three trials, we were ready to continue.
Jake was in charge of filming the rest of the film opening. He used his own Nikon camera with a tripod to give a firm, still footage. The tripod was set up well, supporting the camera well enough.
At one point, Jake had to film Neve showing signs of possession, but this was achieved through Jake detaching the camera from the tripod. Jake held the camera in his head and filmed a close up of Neve. Although this was slightly risky, as holding the camera single handed could may have caused this part to appear quite distorted, Jake ensured he held the camera firmly. This effectively minimised unnecessary movement in our film.
We wanted to include a substantial amount of camera movement as possible, one type of movement which we had to figure on the day was how to achieve a tilt movement. Jake managed to figure out what was needed to be done:
In order to achieve a steadie cam, Jake had to unscrew part of the tripod.
During our filming, we were worried if the light may have overheated. On the other hand, the light worked really well; constantly remaining bright and giving the set that conventional look.
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