Filming

We filmed parts of are to minute film opening. we have a little girl whom we have named Zoe, and she is sitting in her room drawing, she then picks up a dolls and 'kills' it, we then shot a scene where Joe entered the room the next day and put down a paper, on this parer was the crime the girl had committed.

So we filmed parts of our 2 minute film and it went well, we had a slight problem with my loft as it wouldn't close and it was in the shot, luckily Charlotte was able to hold up the loft while we filmed. When filming Joe had to walk around her. we over came this problem really well and you cant tell that Charlotte was standing right by the camera holding up the loft :D

Charlotte holding up the loft :D

we had some fun experimenting with different camera shots, at one point we put Charlotte under my sisters bed and filmed from there which created the effect we were looking for, where you could see whats going on but you couldn't see the characters face which is what we wanted. we used the stool to hold up the camera as the tripod wouldn't fit under the bed. the stool was not shown in the shot but it worked effectively as a tripod.






When filming we shut the curtains and turned on a small lamp to shine light into the central point of the room where i would be sitting. This created a really nice effect where the lighting was black and white with a hint of purple, it helped create a creepy feel to the film. while filming i was surrounded by creepy drawing of people dying or of ways to die, we drew these before filming. we drew the creepy drawings because the little girl was twisted and liked things to do with death. I had one problem when i dropped the doll and start smiling, but when watching it back the noise is really effective, it sounds as if i am breaking someones neck, which was really good as it really fits in so well. So we are going to have to edit out the bit where i drop it, but keep in the noise.

Me and my doll :D

We made a mock newspaper which we used in our filming. This will be used to help explain the story with the top paragraph becasue it relates to what Zoe did to the rag doll / voodoo doll. This shows that what she is doing isnt just her playing but that what she does to the doll happens in real life. We have decided not to show how it happends, whether Zoe does the actions or not, becasue we believe this causes suspicion to the viewer which relates to the genre.