Shooting Footage

On the second day of filming we ran in to several problems whilst shooting our thriller because we found that certain shots proved to be a lot harder than we first thought.
We wanted to do a shot which captured the affect of water going in to a glass but we found that when we tried to shoot this you could see the persons hand and body that was holding the glass, we tried several different positions but still found that we had the same problem. We then put the cup on top of the camera which meant that the water effect was less obvious but it prevented the person being show and all that you could now see was the persons hands, but this was very faint. We found that by shooting the shot like this the effect was not as good as we had hoped because the water movement was much less.

When we were shooting the scenes that involved the fake blood we found that it was very hard to make the blood look effective. The blood ended up being a think line and we could not put the blood close enough to the eye to make it look like that is where it was coming from, we decided to keep this shot but add a lot of effects to it to make it look better.

When filming the shot of the girl in the cupboard we ran in to problems with lighting, we found that our first attempt of filming this when uploaded on the computer was too dark to actually see clearly what was happening in the shot, so when we re-filmed this we decided to use a different place that allowed more light to enter in to the shot, we did this because we then thought of the idea of editing the shot on the computer to make it darker rather than trying to lighten the footage because this was not successful at all.

When we were filming the footage on the pond we found that it was hard to get a creepy and eery effect so this is something we would have to do on the computers. We also found that from certain angels you could see to much of the girl in the shot and it showed too much of her face when we wanted to keep this something that was not too clear but from other angels you couldn't see enough of her so that shot was confusing and you could not tell what we were trying to show in the clip.