Filming Day 4 - 2/12/11

A few hours ago we completed the last few scenes that we had left to film at Laura's house, with our main 3 victims Nicola Ho - http://nicolaastleyasmedia.blogspot.com/ - Chloe King - http://chloeastleyasmedia.blogspot.com/ - and Tayla Powell - http://taylaastleyasmedia.blogspot.com/. We filmed (Scene 7, Shot 1) (Scene 8, Shot 1) and (Scene 10, Shot 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6) which involved our victim characters doing some short 2 second shots, as well as some longer 5/6 second shots too.

For this filming shoot, we needed to remember these:



• Other people - as the scenes we were shooting today were set all in Laura's house, this was the reason for our delay in this days filming and the reason why we only had a set time period we could complete it in. Other people being Laura's family members were in the house whilst we were filming, so in order for them to not be disturbed or for them to not disturb us we clearly told them what we were doing and made sure they weren't in any scene.
• Health and Safety - there was a point in todays filming that did require us to look at our previous risk assesments of outside and change the way in which we did it because we thought one of our actors could get hurt (there's a picture below which shows what we did!)
• Props/household equipment - Laura's house obviously had very up-to-date items and household appliances in them so before we could begin we had to remove everything that wouldn't be available in and before the year 2001 (which is when our film is set) so that it's realistic.
• Our call list - our call list for this was: Equipment - Camera, Tripod, Charger, Tape. Notes - Storyboard, Script. Crew - Actors, Directors, Costume, Refreshments. 

The Filming 
We knew that some of our actors were on a tight time schedule due to other arrangements, and we only had the location for a certain amount of time, so we decided to get the more involved scenes out of the way first. This meant we filmed all of Scene 10 first so that the actors that needed to leave earlier could leave because we were finished with them, and because this did involve lots of movement as well as sound we had quite a few practice tries. The next scenes we shot after were (Scene 7, Shot 1) and (Scene 8, Shot 1) which were both fast 2 second cuts, including the under the bed and being thrown against the wall actions. These were all successful after quite a lot of practice tries and re-runs and it took us just over an hour to complete these all to the standard that we wanted them.


This shows what we all did on the filming shoot today:

Myself and Laura setting up the tripod before we start

Laura focussing the camera and getting it aligned right so it matches our storyboard

This was the change that we made to stick to our Health and Safety rules, and we decided that because Tayla was repetively throwing herself against a brick wall, we placed a cushion underneath her cardigan (which wasn't visible) so that she didn't hurt herself!

This shows me holding the storyboard and Tayla in position ready to practice

This is Laura holding the Camera getting ready to film this final shot

At last, we have finally finished all filming of 'Necrophobia' meaning all we have to spend the next few weeks left is editing, editing, editing! Beginning on Monday 5th December, we're going to be using the Final Cut and Garage Band software to wrap it all up!