Turning our script into the movie project took a few days to do; the first thing we had to do was associate a segment of the script with one of the people in the group. Once we had finished that we all made a shot list and storyboard for our parts in the project, which we then used when we were filming.
Shooting manually on DSLR cameras took a while to get used to, we had to keep adjusting the Shutter Speed, as well as the Aperture and the ISO to get it looking good. This was tricky for my scene because our location was a dark and spooky basement with next to no lighting, the only thing in shot illuminating the area was a cabaret with three candles so we had to keep lighting dim to make it look like a barely lit room.
We re-shot a bunch of scenes from different angles so that we had a lot more coverage and a lot more footage to work with in case the shot we wanted turned out looking terrible, this also helped with the audio as we had a whole range of tracks to choose from once we filmed it over and over.
We had a lot of difficulty shooting my sequence as I said before the lighting was tricky, but we also had trouble with the candles, every time we finished filming we had to blow out the candles for fear of continuity errors. I also wasn’t too keen on the soundtrack on my sequence, it was practically silence except for a beat that runs through my speech about using an Ouija board, and it suddenly cuts out when Shauna says "Just, sit down Max." The camera took a while to get used to as I was only a beginner at using a DSLR and didn't have much experience with using one. I quite liked how the scene turned out, the candle gave it a spooky feel and it truly felt like a Séance.
I like how the final shot turned out with the doll, the horror sting added on really did make it terrifying, I could tell because everyone in the class reacted to the shot and were truly scared. I don't like how the bad dream shot turned out, don't get me wrong Ollie did a terrific job with the camera angles and the use of audio, it was just the location, it felt cramped and I was gutted when I looked back and saw that I was wearing shoes in bed, considering I had just supposedly woken up. I have learnt that it is always important to gauge the opinions of your group before you finish filming because they also have their opinions on how the shot should be done. Next time we do a project like this, we are going to manage the time better and find more locations and list them from availability.
I studied the feedback and found that people have some of the same concerns as me, like having shoes on in bed and sometimes a little under exposed. But all in all it was positive results; the majority of people say they enjoyed the soundtrack and that the ending scene was done really well and scared them. Other people enjoyed the editing but also argued that the audio kept changing during the cuts, it kept going from loud to quiet, but in some places like the ending scene with the doll it gave it an advantage. Ellie and Sean said that some shots could have used some variety and that some were awkardly long, also, the end credits felt rushed but they also said that it had a good creepy pace to it.
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