Second Shooting Hour

On the 10th of November, Myself and Ferne filmed our shots where Sophie Green is tied up to the bed and she is injured. We thought these shots would be hard to film as they are very emotional and require a lot of concentration. Our actress, Talia Feld, was very dedicated to her job and allowed us to do what we wanted with her makeup and clothing and she also acted passionately. As well as filming we also took photos of the scene, as we may decided to use these instead of the film, as it is more snappy and gives a greater impact to the audience.


We used a bedroom in my house to film this scene and removed all objects that gave any sign of humanity and serenity, such as a picture frame and a chess piece. We then did Talia's make up with fake blood and black and blue eyeshadow to create a 'beaten up' look and used a piece of material to tie her up to the bed post. We then filmed short clips of her crying, looking scared, screaming and pleading fo Bowe to 'stop'. This creates empathy with the audience

We took a varied amount of shots in order to give us as much choice in our creation of this scene. We used close ups of her face to show her emotion and her facial injuries clearly, we also used high angled shots to reflect her low authority and position in the film.

Here are some images of Talia after we have done her make up.

First Shooting hour

On friday the 6th of November, myself and Ferne gathered our cast, Talia Feld and Joe Marshall, and took them to a large field area in Old Farm Park. Despite researching the weather conditions for the day previously as sunny it unfortunately rained. This made our filming harder to carry out as the lens was becoming wet and the cast were finding it hard to perform. In our plan we also wanted our field shots of the couple to be filmed in sunny conditions to reflect the happiness of the characters, however we thought we could use the clouds to our advantage, as it could foreshadow the danger and betrayal in the relationship.

As we filmed we used as many takes as we could to ensure we had enough film to use and edit, this will work to our advantage as it will help us in creating the most professional and emotive trailer we can.

We filmed three specific shots where Talia was on top of Joe play fighting, Talia was running playfully away from Joe and when they were hugging and said, 'i love you'. Although the cast performed well in the conditions provided, as 'love' is an awkward and hard emotion to show, we felt that our filming wasn't very believable. In our questionnaire the public are most enticed by a realistic style of filming and we want our trailer to be as realistic as possible. This led us to think of a different way in which we can film it, to keep a scary and realistic atmosphere. We came up with an idea that we could film from the character of Bowe's point of view for the first half of the trailer and the character of Sophie for the second half. We feel from this the audience will be able to interpret a full concept of the story. This style of filming may also confuse the viewer, which exaggerates the genre of horror. As its from a first person perspective, it makes the audience feel as if they are there and also scares them more as they can not see who's perspective it is from.