Filming

On our first day of filming (9th november), we used our storyboard as our schedule, to make sure we got each shot we needed. However because we needed to film at a specific time, it was really difficult to take everything into account of what we actually needed to do. Things we had to take into consideration was the location, our actors, weather etc. Because the genre of our trailer is horror, we wanted to film just before it got dark. This fits in with the typical conventions of the horror genre. As we needed to film just before it got dark, it gave us a limited amout of time of how much we could actually film. As our first attempt of filming didn't go exactly to plan we went out a few days after.

The second day of filming went alot better as we had actually worked out roughly how much time we would have before it got too dark. We went out alot earlier to give us more time and we also decided to film the outside scenes first because of this. Once it was dark, we still had some more outside scenes to film and found it quite hard without the correct lighting. Because of this problem, it had resulted in us in improvising. We used: a torch to light up specific objects and the car headlights were used to light up the front of the house (this was particularly tricky as we had to be careful not to create any shadows). I think that our second attempt to film was a vast improvment from the first try because we had followed our plan carefully prioritising each shot.

We used this timetable along with our storyboard to help guide us of what we needed to get done.