Evaluation of Day: 13th January 2013

Evaluation of Day: 13th January 2013

Tasks to be done:

• Film actors in full make up
• Film Anna's scenes
• Chase scene
• Film ending scenes

Full actors in full make up
We concentrated more on Anna's scenes during todays filming session as Eden was unable to attend. Anna plays the dead girl in our film opening so her make up and costume were basic in the sense that it was the conventional "dead" look that we were trying to achieve.
Prior to today we had filmed Anna before however we were unaware of how much make up a character needs to wear before the camera picks it up, perhaps during the next filming day we should bare this in mind.

Unfortunately, in terms of filming the weather has been different every time. In this circumstance, although the weather was extremely cold today, the sun was present again washing out traces of any make up on film unless we filmed Anna using a close up every time.

In terms of our story line we needed to incorporate a wound of some sort possibly showing how Anna's character died. The picture on the left shows our early stages of creating the wound on Anna's neck, after applying the fake blood, we waited for it to dry and then smoothed out the edges to create a realistic effect before applying more make up within the gash itself. However, as Eden wasn't present during todays filming session the wound was not really needed yet it was good practise and we were made aware of a few issues such as the wax being too loose on the skin after a while once dried.

Filming of Anna's scenes/ chase scene
As Eden was unable to make it today we were able to film the majority of Anna's shots. Anna plays our antagonist although her dangerous side of her character is prevailed within the chase scene. We focused on keeping Anna's character as innocent as possible to begin with, hence why her costume is white, so that it's easy during the editing process to show that there is an evil spirit within the cemetery controlling her. Furthermore, we filmed the Anna's feet as she runs by and we also did this with Eden the week before, through the editing process we will be able to speed this up to highlight the distance between the protagonist (Eden) and antagonist (Anna).

This also links into the chase scene as the filming of her feet alone builds up tension within the audience as they are unaware of what to expect or how close the two character are to each other.

Filming of ending scenes

As both actors needed to be on set for the filming of the ending scenes we were able to focus on Anna's character as her character alone dominates a large amount of the ending scenes. We decided that instead of filming her character straight off, we thought that it would be a lot more effective to use stop motion to show the huge distinction towards the audience of how she used to be (i.e. what her sister (Eden) remembered her as before she died, and what she was now). To do this we took photos of Anna, leaving her to stand in the same position whilst we worked our way round her, once edited it will look as if we filmed her in a 360 degree manner. We thought that stop motion would be effective as it allows the audience to get a better understanding of the character. 


Overall this was one of our less productive filming days as a lot didn't go to plan due to the fact that one of our actors decided not to turn up therefore leaving us in doubt about her. Although now that we had a day alone with on actor we were able to out a lot of things into perspective. Therefore when we film next week we will be able to dive straight in without any issues about what we need to do.