In preparation to making the horror we had to plan, for this I made my own share of the storyboard sheets along with the other relevant planning material such as the script etc. Then I did the recce shots along with Sophie, preparing Marie the star of the film, for makeup and design.
Also sorting out the location of the filming took quite some time, we did parts of it at all three of our houses, the majority was at my house as one of the group members dropped out, we had to change the location and film at my house, obviously we had to do the best we could about the continuity of the filming, as we tried to make it look as real as possible. The planning of the all the mis-en scene was all contributed as a group as we all shared our ideas for the party layout. Also I contributed towards the sheets on where we got our information from, for instance researching for the target audience which we wanted. For the production part of the film, I shooted most of the film, taking into account that Sophie was acting in the film we both took equal roles. Some of the filming was quite challenging, but we helped each other as a group. The low angle shot of Marie coming down the stairs was difficult to film as the door was in the way, but we both worked together to move out any objects that were obstructing us from filming.
In addition it was difficult filming the titles as
we used a flame and it kept going out but we
both helped one and other to work as quickly
as possible to use the time we had efficiently.
Before filming I positioned the camera and white balanced and focused, hoping then the camera quality would be as good as possible. I also helped with the lighting when filming the party scene adjusting and flicking the light switches to make the scary effect when singing to Jane. With regards to the children I got my sister's and her friends to be in the film, which took quite a lot of responsibility as I had to ask their parents for permission, then Sophie asked Marie to be in the film. I also directed the children to what they had to do which took a lot of effort and became quite tiring, but they were quite well behaved.
When it came to editing the film, Rubel was helping to do the music, although we did in the end decide that we wouldn't use his as we thought it wasn't as suitable. I then edited along with Sophie, cutting and splitting the footage to put our film together. Then we both worked on sound and merged them together. We changed the sound levels, and then both recorded some digetic sound of happy birthday to go over the top of the sound.
I feel that I made a good contribution to the film, considering two of our group members dropped out I think me and Sophie coped well together.
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