29/03/10


Lily's costume was picked because the costume had to be casual but smart to show that she is going to school. We picked the colours because we thought the black reflects the gloom and danger ahead whilst the white reflects Lily's innocence. The colours and normality of what she is wearing also makes it seem more realistic.


We chose the music because it is not too depressing, dark or scary and yet not too happy or out of character for a typical horror film, it also seems like music that could be heard on a radio so it goes with the scene of Lily turning on the radio. We decided to make it ourselves because we found it very difficult to find non-copyrighted music that suited our film. We also added scary non-copyrighted music to go over the title to make it more dramatic.

29/03/10

Below is a presentation about the institutional issues for our project. You may also view the presentation at this link: http://prezi.com/wedy1yjo1ldm/
Simply click on the arrows to view the next slide.

12/03/10





Above is the first draft of our opening sequence. We still need to work a lot more on it. For example we need to finish cutting in places like the forest scene because we want to make it have a faster pace to create a scarier scenario, and also we need to cut down Lily walking out of her house because the scene is very long and not that interesting.

With the forest scene we also need to reduce the volume of the digetic noise and put non digetic sound over the top. After talking it over in our group we have come up with the idea of putting a heartbeat that gradually gets faster with a voiceover of Elly breathing deeply over the top of this scene. This will, in our opinion, increase the tension and suspence making it overall a lot more terrifying.

We also still have to add credits however we are going to wait until we have finished everything else is finished first. We want to start the credits on the scene where Lily wakes up and have them continue as she gets ready for school. Within this scene Lily clicks on the radio at which point we want music to come on. We haven't yet found the perfect music, so this is something else we still have to do. We are thinking of usingthe music we have already created ourselves on garageband rather than search for non-copyrighted music on the internet.

We did not follow our storyboard completely: we included a few more shots in the first scene such as a high angle long shot when she's running and we are going to move the shots around so that there is a constant switching to different perspectives as she is running. We also did not use a point of view shot for when Lily wakes up and rubs her eyes because it was much too difficult to do it handheld without it being extremely shaky, which is not what we wanted. So we decided on having a high angle shot of Lily's face as she wakes up instead.

05/03/10

Today we filmed scene one of Lily being chased through the woods. Bareen and I had decided where we would put the camera and what type of shots to use there when we explored the woods earlier (when we were deciding which wood area to use). So we got through the shots pretty quickly.

We attempted to include a point of view shot but it looked too strange and we had many other shots to use so we decided not to spend a lot of time on filming this shot. Here is a picture of Elly attempting the shot:





However, we had a few problems with this filming session:

• Elly was practicing what she had to act out for the shot where she turns around and screams. However Bareen and I did not realise she was practicing so when she screamed we both jumped. This was not the problem, however, after Elly screamed a few children further in the woods started screaming as if having a competition with us, so we had to wait until they finished so we could film the shot without having noise in the background.

• We also found it very hard to film the handheld shots steady. I found it difficult to film a panning shot using handheld camera. Bareen also found it hard to film with handheld as she was running with the camera so she had to focus on where she was going, what she was filming and keeping the camera steady. This took several tries to get right, but we are happy with the outcome. However I think the occasional unsteadiness created a scarier feel to the film and added to the tension.

01/03/10

Today we filmed scenes two and three that we filmed over in session three. So we redid the scene in her bedroom, the scene of Lily walking down the stairs and Lily walking out of her house and down the road. We had already filmed these scenes before so they were much easier to film again and it went a lot quicker than the last ones.

We had a problem with the weather again when we were filming Lily walking down her street as it was a really windy day. So when we filmed the scene the tripod kept moving slightly. However we managed to film the scene without the camera moving in the end. We didn’t redo the point of view shot of Lily waking up which we had lost because it didn’t work well the last time and it didn’t look how we imagined it to. Instead we did a high angle close up of Lily waking up and sitting up in bed.

In conclusion we had a very productive session that went really well.