Filming

I have now completed recording my scenes and I plan to go on the computers tomorrow to develop my editing and joining the separate takes together and deleting the outtakes.
The filming last night went extremely well, except a few hiccups for example the shirt Damien wore in the film was covered in the blood which had stained onto it, therefore we had to improvise with a similar shirt and hopefully when editing the audience will not be able to see a difference between them. Another set back is that my actor lost one prop, being her ring, which is rather significant in the second half of the half, however I believe that if I kept the camera away from her hands, then no one in the audience would get the chance to notice to discontinuity, One more problem we had was when Bethany was meant to hear a noise coming from downstairs; I wanted to shoot her jumping under the bed swiftly, however we managed to pass this obstacle. To achieve this I put a friend under the bed on the other side and out of the camera shot, and when Bethany was partly under the bed, my friend pulled her under in a way that made it look like she was getting under quickly and easily.

So far

I have begun editing the part of the film I have recorded and so far it is going really well.
I have booked out the HD camera and have all my actors prepared to come to my house after college today for the shoot of the 1st part of the film; including Bethany's murder. I also need to create a usable soundtrack for my film for the diegetic noise of Bethany screaming and Damien listening to music whilst cleaning up the mess.
As with the 1st part of the film being filmed, there is a bit it of dialogue in it when Bethany is speaking to her mum, therefore I will have to prep my actor with her lines and make sure she makes it look realistic.
I will also need to make sure that the camera will fit in certain positions as, for the small rooms and medium shots needed, I will have to make sure the shot I want can be captured successfully.

First day of filming

November 16th

I did my first bit of filming and collected all of my actors together at my house and filmed the second half of the film along with the outside scenes as I wasn't sure how the weather would change during the christmas period.
I made sure I had all my props including the blood, Damiens knife and bag etc, and starting in my house I managed to get them in their costumes within 15 minutes. As I had fake blood and it needed to be on the laminate floor, I had to do a quick test with a little blob on the floor to make sure it wouldn't stain and once I know it wouldnt make a mark I began putting it on Holly(Bethany)'s arm and on the floor to create the illusioon that its been dripping on the floor. I also placed the blood on George(Damien)'s shirt. To make this more realistic, I put alot of blood on my hands and grabbed his shirt in places where I may grab if someone was attacking me.
Filming went really well and we managed to get all my shots needed, both inside and outside the house. All the shots also linked really well with each other except in one shot where George(Damien) was holding the pictures of Bethany however in the one particular shot he wasn't holding it so when I film the first half I am going to have re-shoot it so that he has the pictures as to keep the continuty strong.