Filming

Today we filmed our set which to me was something new to get my head around. You have to really think about the angle your filming in as it's easy to end up outside of the set in the frame. I think my group worked round this well eventually. At first we had some difficulty with the green screen, as we needed the gap between this and the wall with the window as Ryan needed to climb through it into the set. The gap meant that the shot we wanted, which was a tracking shot out as he climbed through and came up to the camera, was difficult to get right as you could see the ends of the green screen wall through the window, which wouldn't work well in the edit and look a mess in the final piece. We eventually found the right placing of the green screen and the tracks with the camera, however I did think that it made the shot look a bit badly framed but it worked with the green screen and I think that's what was more important in this shoot. All we done once we were finished with the shots that needed Ryan to climb through the window we pulled the wall closer to the window so that there was no gaps at all. We used a dedo light to light the green screen and a kino light with an orange gel taped over to create a dim orange lighting. I think that the lighting worked really well as we wanted something dark since the set is supposed to be in the forest in the middle of the night, and the orange glow helps with the idea it's lit with candles and a campfire. The dimness and orange glow also helped with making the props look quite eery, especially the deer head. All the props actually tied in well with the film and I think the cutaways we filmed are going to look good in the finished film. Billy brought some fake blood spray and sprayed it on the deer head and the photo that's hanging on the wall, which on camera makes it look like someone is spurting blood off camera which I think was a really good idea.