Yesterday, we met with our Villain, Blathazar (Rhys) and our male victim Simon. Our Final Girl was unable to make it to Clapham Junction, so we improvised and used Louise who played the part Dylan. We were able to film establishing shots of the upper level of the station with Balthazar into the shot and towards the camera and tracking shots of commuters to add to the realism of our teaser trailer. I was also able to do a panning shot towards Louise and film her reacting to missing a train, this introduces the audience to her. Due to National Secturity 1 we were instructed to leave the premises and because our whole trailer was meant to be set inside a train station.
We had to improvise again and film directly outside the station, instead of using the tripod this time I held the camera to give it a shaky effect when Blathazar attacked our male victim and injected him with his contaminated blood. We used a baby's medicine syringe and because of the close up shot, it looked as though the needle had gone through our victims neck, although there was nothing attached to the end of the syringe. We were about to do the follow up to the train station scene when we were again told to leave the area as it belonged to the station and we were still not allowed to film there.
Instead of moving off to a new area, we decided to stay in Clapham and found a dark bridge on the main road which we decided to use to film a long shot of Louise walking towards the camera through pedestrians as though she had just been attacked by Balthazar and escaped. I chose this kind of shot so that it looked like the final girl was walking towards the audience for help which makes the trailer a more persoanl experience. The second to last shot I filmed was a close up of our final girl with Balthazar entering/intruding within the shot making it a over the shoulder shot of Louise being cornered by him and the the final shot was a extreme close up of Louise dialling for the police and Balthazar jumping from behind her to grab her around the neck. We ended on this to show the main motivation of our Villain - there is no escaping from your past.
After watching this, we decided we would definately film in the train station as it is an isolated area out of anyones comfort zone and missing the last train meant that the protagonist in this movie was seemingly all alone, for the whole night.
This is our updated shooting schedule, however there were minor changes to it on the 8th. We realised that we didn't actually need the final girl in the shots we took because they were of Balthazar's 'Victim Wall'. The second shooting was cancelled because of conflicting timetables and has yet to be rescheduled. As far as props are concerned, we have had to make our own syringe and the rest are not as difficult to get a hold of. As the cameraman :) i've been ringing actors up and arranging times, which also conflict. So, for the Male Gaze shots which have been arranged for Sunday the 12th, one of the actors are available today and one is available tomorrow, on the tomorrow.
Locations decided:
- Train Station
- Bridge
- Alley way
- Somewhere with plants/roots/deserted
These are all isolated or can be made to look like dark places if I can film mostly close ups and extreme close ups.
We advertised an ad on Gumtree to find our cast.
The following males and females are our possible choices.
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