Planning: Experience on the day of filming

Filming the final film opening was an immersive and exciting experience between a lot of people in my Media Studies class. 

 

 

We started to record after school at around 3:30 pm.

 

We had some trouble on the day of filming because just when we were heading to film, it started to rain. Thankfully when we got there the weather cleared up and was the perfect environment to film in. 

A picture of Valentina and I at the filming location ready to get to work! Valentina is one of the members in my group 

 We all met up at the gas station and got to work. We set up our props got the costumes on and started to record. 

 

Preparing Hugo to get into character 

Fabiana filming one of the scenes 

Some things did not go as expected, as I had written in a previous blog, I had originally wanted the lighting to be dark to give a creepy and mysterious touch to the opening, but due to everyone’s schedules we had to film earlier, meaning brighter light. Although that did not go as expected it was still a good time of day to film since it challenges horror conventions. 

 

At the gas station that allowed us to film with the props we made and bought

It took around 2 hours to film, and we were done by 5-5:30. The people that worked at the gasoline stop were very helpful and provided us with the trash bag as well as allowing us to film in the location. 

 

Our main character played by Alexandra and one of the students in our media studies class who was there to support, he also gave us a ride because of the rain

There were some mistakes and funny clips in which some things did not go as planned, but after some takes, we were able to get it right. 

 

The collaboration between different groups was a great way in which we all were able to feel comfortable which recording and preparing to film.