Filming Diary - Day 5

This was the last day of filming. This was one of the most important days as this scene was the ending scene and the one that had the most thought into it. This was where Harriet was lying on the toilet floor unconscious/dead. We had special effect make - up put on Harriet to make it look more realistic. We filmed her lying on the floor from different angles as we didn't want to show the cut on her head straight away. We managed to drag this scene out by panning up from different angles on her body before we got up to her head. We filmed one close up of the cut to show the detail of it and the rest were quite distance to build up suspense. This didn't take us too long to filmed because we knew what we wanted the shots and scene too look like so we just got on with it and manage to film it within an hour.

Filming Diary - Day 4

On the fourth day we filmed Alex (typical best-friend). This was the scene where Alex was socialising. This includes some other people in the scene. We filmed Alex calling Harriet to find out where she was. We filmed a lose up of his phone to show the audience who he was calling. This scene included talking so we had to make sure the actors were talking loud enough. This was a slight problem as they did not speak loud enough for the first few takes but in the end we managed to get in right. The next scene we filmed with Alex was him walking out of the room. We filmed this from different angles as well and as he was walking down the corridor we had him call Harriet again as he doesn't know where Harriet is to whats happened to her but the audience do so it creates more tension.

Filming Diary - Day 3

On the third day we filmed part of the toilet scene. This included Harriet walking into the toilets. We filmed this scene through the mirror. This made it look very effective because we could also see Sammie - Jo standing in the corner in the background. But only the audience was able to see Sammie -Jo not Harriet. Most of this day filming was trying to angle the camera correctly in the mirror so we didn't include any irrelevant content that we didn't need and so we could see both Harriet and Sammie - Jo. This as all we filmed. The mirror scenes took a long time and we didn't want to rush them so we took our time trying to get it right so it looked as good as we could make it.

Filming Diary - Day 2

On the second day of filming we got quite a lot done. This filming was focused on Harriet (victim) and Sammie - Jo (antagonist). The first part we filmed was Harriet walking down the stairs and out the building. Yet again we had to film this quite a few times as we wanted to get the best angle possible to make sure our film looked as good as it could. Sammie - Jo was in these scenes but you did not see much of her. We wanted to make sure we didn't show much of the antagonist. This was because we wanted to build tension and suspense to keep the audience guessing who she is and what is she doing. We shot the outside scene a lot because timing was quite an issue. This was because we wanted to get a shot of Harriet walking out the door so we had to stand outside with the camera. This meant Harriet had to guess when to walk out as we were not able to tell her when to start walking. In the end we managed to get the shot after many attempts.

Filming Diary - Day 1

On day one we filmed the first scene. This scene included Harriet (victim) in an ICT room completing some work. We filmed this shot/scene from many different angles as we wanted to see which one looked the most effective. This took a bit of time but not too long. We thought by filming it from different angles it would give the audience a good idea of what type of environment the victim is in and a feel of the location we will be filming but with not giving away too much information. We then moved on to filming her walking down the corridor. This was all we were able to get done as we only have an hour for this filming slot.

Opening title sequences research and analysis

In The Conjuring's sequence they had titles on mainly each scene. As we can see they writing is always in capital letters. This is effective because its very bold and is making a statement. This is something we should keep in mind for when we are adding in our title to our film that we have created. We can also see that each scene/slide is very dull and dark. This definitely tells us that it is a horror movie because it is very spooky and makes us think what could this film be about.

Final idea treatment

This is the plot for our film; 
In the opening two minutes, we will start off with an establishing shot of our first location, which cuts to a smaller room with a focused medium shot on the protagonist. We match-cut to a close up of her phone as a gloved hand comes and takes it. She doesn’t notice, however, as she is listening to loud music on a computer. This scene has limited sound, but possibly will include a suspended note to add tension to the scene. We will then cross-cut to a medium shot of her friend in a busy room where he is trying to call her. There will be some dialogue here as well as general ambient noise. This will cross-cut to a long shot of the lead walking outside and back to the friend, now giving up on phoning her. When we cross back to the lead, we see a long shot of the antagonist behind, following her. During the times where the antagonist is in shot, there will be some bass notes to emphasise the danger the girl is in. After this, we will cut back to a shot of her friend calling again. This time, it will cut to the protagonist in the toilets. There will be multiple shots of her washing her hands etc. with the antagonist hidden from her but not from the audience. A cross-cut to her friend again, and then a long shot of the protagonist dead on the floor of the toilets. This will match-cut to a close up of the phone ringing, and then to a low angled shot of the protagonist leaving the room. The titles will then come up, leaving the opening on a cliff hanger.