Evaluation of the Day 28/02/13

All actors and crew were present and on time at the meeting place.

Tasks to be done
Death scene, Eden killing Anna
Eden & Anna walking past their house
Eden & Anna walking past the river
Anna possession


Death scene (Eden killing Anna)
We filmed the death scene with Eden killing Anna (which is our first twist that leaves the audience wondering what will happen in the rest of the movie) as Eden bringing Anna down to the ground without seeing any specific action, we thought this would be more suitable as an actual action of Eden 'stabbing' Anna in the neck would end up unrealistic and not effective. But to imply that she had been stabbed and that Eden was killing Anna we filmed Eden holding a knife and edited it in before the death of Anna came up to signal to the audience what is about to happen and foreshadow the death. Here we used a close up shot of Eden's hand holding the knife to create suspense and mystery around who was holding it.

 Eden & Anna walking past their house

We filmed Anna and Eden down the path and walking past an old fashioned looking house in 'Hall Place' to imply the whereabouts of their house and show that they are both of a high class. We also did this so that we could show happier scenes of Anna and Eden together as sisters before Anna's death and link Anna acting in the 'memory' shots with the picture of Anna in Eden's hand at the graveyard. This therefore shows that Anna and Eden had a happy, loving relationship before she died to brings up the question of 'why did Eden kill her?' which would have been explain further in the film though her possession was hinted at throughout the opening (and the madness of Eden). Here we used a medium shot to show happy memories and so they were both visible.

Large house within a park, well off.

 Eden & Anna walking past the river 
We then filmed both of them walking past a river which is brought up again when the nightgown drenched in blood is thrown into it to symbolize Anna's death. This was filmed to create a link between these clips and to show that there is a river in the area. It also is used as one of the happy memories Eden has when she is in the graveyard. Here we used medium shots of them two walking along so we could see them both clearly and to imply that they are happy memories we didn't have any canted shots.

Anna's possession
Finally we filmed Anna's possession which is to bring about ideas of why Eden killed Anna. Here we had Anna lay on the floor and contort and we used a POV shot to film this to give the impression that Eden was watching it and to give a shaky effect that matched what was going on on screen.