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This time when we went to film my scene again, we tried to go out later so that it was darker. However, we took quite a long time and in the end, there were huge jumps in darkness between usable shots. We might have to stick with a slightly lighter setting.
The cut in the costume worked better as it looks slightly more realistic than just a puddle of blood on the ground which is what we had last time. Additionally, I brought my lanyard and it looked quite cool to have Jack rip it off the victim's neck as he leaves her to die in the scene. While we will have to film it again, we have a clearer idea of how it is going to look and what we are filming. We decided to try and film Daniel's scene in the morning as there has been a lot of fog recently. Our first try filming we decided to change the way that victim 2 dies as there were several planks of wood around and we could have Jack come behind the victim and smack him over the head with it. It actually looked ok, but we went out to film a few times after because we never fully finished the scene. We tried a few different ways that the victim could be killed, but the first way we tried ended up looking the best so we stuck to that. If we can, we want to re-film the ending due to the fact that the side tracking shot we filmed is too shaky and in another shot, when we are looking at the victim's phone, you can see the camera reflected in the screen.
I did a lot of the camera work, but I wasn't tall enough to film the tracking shot so Yuden filmed that bit. Really, we should've used the tripod, just to make it a little less unstable, but its a really difficult shot anyway. One shot I really enjoyed doing was the one with the plank of wood on the floor and Jack walks over to pick it up. I had to lie on the ground and focus the camera on the plan of wood while also holding the camera as steady as possible as I couldn't use a tripod for the shot, nor could I put the camera on the ground as you wouldn't be able to see enough of the scene, the grass would be blocking the view too much. We filmed the first scene in which my character would be killed. While the day felt quite productive, we will have to reshoot everything due to several factors. First, it was far to early in the day and very sunny which took away from the spookiness of the setting and actually made it look too pretty. We also forgot several things like my lanyard which would play an important part in identifying the victims and adds to the killer's board, but for the sake of continuity, we couldn't add it in without showing the killer taking it.
We also need to refine our camerawork as only I had used the type of camera we had before, so I was half teaching it to the others, half reminding myself of how to use it. When we film again, we are either going to do it very early in the morning when there is a lot of fog around as that would be a cool reminder of the actual Jack the Ripper London that was full of smog or we will do it a lot later so its darker. I also want to re-think my costume as it would look more realistic if I had my shirt ripped and we see blood coming out of the cut as though I actually have a wound there. To Do List for the Killer's Board
We've started planning for our movie. We think we are going to have around 4 victims who are going to be killed by Jack the Ripper. In the opening, we want to cut between seeing the victims being killed and the killers board where pictures of the victims will be as well as credits. We also might need a scene at the end, so we are thinking of having a detective come to the scene of one of the killings and set it up so that the rest of the movie would be about him trying to discover who Jack the Ripper is.
I am going to be in charge of costume and make-up, making the story board and doing the survey as we are all sharing that part of the production. To start planning for our film, we have gone out and asked people what kind of horror movies they enjoy. We asked a series of questions to gauge our audience and see what people would watch. It went well, but we added in more relevant questions the more people we asked as we could direct them to answers we needed. This has helped us get a better idea of what our audience- which is mostly teenagers- would enjoy and if they like our idea. We have tried to get a wide variety of age groups to interview so we went out during break times to ask younger years.
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