Weeks 9, 10, 11 & 12

- progress of filming
- use of equipment
- what's going well?
- problems encountered
- schedule? on task? re-shooting?
- other relevant points

So far in our filming, things have been going good. We have chosen a final idea, our actresses and locations. For out film, we needed certain props, like a knife and a mask. Since in this project we are not allowed to use a real knife, we had to go out and search for a plastic, yet realistic looking knife, which we found in a costume shop. For our film we would also need blood. We decided to get a little creative with that, and instead of buying fake blood, we looked up recipes for fake blood online, bought the ingredients and decided to make it ourselves. We spent one day on all of this, putting us a little behind schedule as we were already supposed to start shooting that day, but it got too dark.

We decided to shoot the next day instead. When we started shooting, we had to think about which parts of the film we were going to shoot first, though knowing it didn't really matter since our whole film takes place in just one location. Since, when we started filming it was starting to get too dark already, we decided to shoot the parts inside the house first, and leave the shots from outside for another day.

We had a camera and tripad we had taken out of our college for the weekend. We were quite familiar with how a camera works, having done media before in secondary school and having to shoot a music video then. We got everything together and started planning out our shots, double checking to see which angles would work better for each scene. We had some trouble with the main actress getting serious for the role at first, but once she got herself together, it all went acording to plan.

The only real problem we have encountered so far, is time. We're finding it hard to find a good time to shoot, as we need it to be dark outside, but not dark enough for the camera to not be able to pick anything up. We seemed to have settled for 4 o'clock, but at that time it gets dark really quickly, so we always seem to miss the ideal time to shoot.