Filming Part 2

After having successfully filmed a section of our trailer on the 16th November, we decided to move on and accomplish our main scene, consisting of the killer and the wife together. In the past couple of weeks Nicole and I were speculating a lot about the gender of our killer. This is because men are portrayed as being more physically able and masculine to create a sinister end to the trailer. However, we also took into consideration that our trailer isn’t going to be gory and brutal, because it is a Horror-Thriller and therefore decided that if we were to have a woman killer; it would challenge expectations and intrigue the audience. This aside, Nicole decided to film the killer and the wife on Friday 23rd November according to our Project Plan. The location of this scene was to be in our school’s sixth form library at main site, which is in a basement, creating a cosy, but soon to be sinister atmosphere. We used our shot list to experiment and identify different camera angles that would make the killer more significant than the wife. Therefore at first we emphasised high angle shots for the killer to show that previously she was the insignificant and powerless, but now that she’s got her own back, she has more status and power over the wife, and we portrayed this through our low angle shots towards the end of the scene. We used the tripod and wheels to the best of our ability and even though it took us time to set it up, due to the fact that we had a variety of different locations, we still succeeded in getting it done efficiently. This was our second of three filming slots that was stated in our Project Plan.