Film Film Film

    So... issues first. Lighting. Although we experimented and experimented, parts of our film still came out extremely dark, some even unusable. The biggest problem may have come because we were too conservative about the amount of light that we let in during filming. We tried to use as little light as possible to create a dark, eerie vibe, but it ended up being too dark in some cases, but some of this may be fixed in post production by changing the contrast on the video during the parts that are extremely dark, and hopefully that will help a bit.

    Other than that, filming went relatively well overall, and we were able to accomplish everything we wanted. Although some things were not as we initially intended, it ended up being sufficient for our filming, and hopefully it turns out okay.

(This is our attempt to block out the lighting from outside the window. It seems it was too much blockage though because the videos ended up being too dark. Maybe more lighting in the room would have helped and made the lighting more sufficient, along with easy to manipulate.)

(Here is an example of the red lighting we used to create a ominous feeling. Using the red blanket, we were able to cover a lamp and create the cool color effect.)

(These are just some props that we bought for the film. The top being a decoration for the bathroom, the bottom being the eventual murder weapon...)

(This is setting up a portion of the set. We tried to use this scene to somewhat introduce who the character getting killed is in a small amount of time. We felt that mice-en-scene would be the best way to portray this because adding some dialogue seemed to not fit and adding another scene would add too much time to our intro.)

(And here is the filming process... with some nice lighting.)