Filming for the beginning Scenes

Hello! This past weekend my group and were able to finish filming for our final project. The scenes that we filmed that day were the opening scenes of the film, scenes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. We shot these scenes at a different house than where we shot the day before. We did this because both of the houses alone wouldn’t be a good fit for us to film. We needed to have a specific layout of furniture and we figured that if we shoot in both houses together, we could just edit it to make it look like one house. We shot the scenes in chronological order because we believe that that would be easier, and it would help us to stay organized. 

In scene 1, we shot the establishing shot of one of the houses that we filmed in. We also shot the scenes of one of the characters scaring the friend group as a joke. This was a pretty short scene to shoot so it didn’t take too long to make. The next scene we shot was the scene where group notices that one of their friends was missing and they decide to go look for her. This scene was also very easy to shoot. The scene that we shot after that was the scene where the character Hannah goes to search for her missing friend in the kitchen. This scene was fun to shoot because it was the first moment of the film where things start to get a little scary. We used a couple of cool techniques while filming this scene such as a tracking shot, eyeline match, and different angles for shooting. The next scene was the scene where Hannah confronts the other character, Thomas, about the note in the kitchen. This scene took us a while to shoot because my group and I could not get our lines right and at the times we did get them right, something in the background such as a dog barking or a phone ringing would ruin the shot. Once we got that scene down, we moved on to the final scene for the night and the last scene that we needed to film. This scene was the scene where one of the friends goes up to Hannah and Thomas and tells them to stop arguing and to help her look for the missing friend. This scene was nice to shoot because all of the angles looked really well-done and professional. 

Today was so much easier than the first day of filming was. All of the scenes were pretty short, and they didn’t require too much work to make them look good. My role for this day of filming was as an actor and as a cameraman. All of my group members helped in creating the atmosphere and mood of the film and we all put in our own ideas. Now that the filming is all over, it is time to move on to the editing process. I’m both excited and nervous for this part of the project because editing can be very fun and cool but when editing as a group, it can become a little stressful when two people have completely different ideas,