Diary Entry of Filming for trailer

As we began our filming, we kept a diary entry of what we achieved in each day

Day 1:
For one of the scenes we needed to film specifically at night. For our location, we chose to use a country lane for the scene. In this scene, it is of where the 3 girls were running away with touches in theyre hands with someone behind them creeping up on them. After this, we then shot another scene where the girls are sitting together in the woods, realising that ellie is missing after a loud scream.

Day 2:
Our next scene was to be shot in the day scene. This scene was where the girls were filmed packing and preparing for their school camping trip in one of the girls rooms. Although we had a problem with the camera angle, so we will need to re-film this section asap.

Day 3:
The next scene was based in school. Filming in the school gave the film a better understanding for the trailer/for the audience, as the girls arrive back at school seeing missing posters of there friend Ellie everywhere. In this scene, I filmed Lydia walking through the corridor, picking up and reading the missing poster. I then filmed Lydia going into a room and the door slamming behind her.

Day 4:
Lydia then filmed in her garden where the weather seemed perfect for the particular scene. As it was dark and rainy I shot the last scene featured in our trailer with the hand with blood on it twitching in the mud and the rain to leave the audience in suspense/horror

Day 6:
We then got together and decided to change some of our trailer (first draft). We changed what our peers did not like about the trailer, such as the lack of voiceover etc. This proved to be a really productive day as we were able to get as much as possible done without doing more filming.

Day 7
In our lesson we decided to film the clip where one of the girls (lydias) hand is covered in blood, dragging down the window of the school door. I filmed this from outside the room. We chose to do this as we thought it'd go well with the previous scene where one of the girls (lydia) walks into a classroom door suspiciously and the door slams behind.
Here is some photographs of us getting ready for the scene



Day 8
We then filmed a scene where one of the girls (kerrie) was in the toilets, with a man (dave) peering over watching her, then kerrie turning round to find no one was there. We shot about 3 of these scenes to get the perfect clip, but overall it worked really well.

Day 9
Next we needed to change the beginning scene of our trailer due to the feedback we received from our target audience. We filmed the close up shots of the girls outside in our lesson. Using moving imagery instead of images gave it a more professional feel as before it didn't flow very well with the rest of the trailer. We also re-filmed the scene in the bedroom where the girls were packing as the camera angle cut off one of the girls heads, making it look unprofessional and messy!