Shooting Diary 5

The final lot of shooting we did was for our title sequence. We did this by filing with nothing but a torch and a dark room to emphasise the scary features on the clowns face. We made use of just having the clown stand still as we slowly panned around the clown and also panned the torch around slowly to also make it seem creepy.  

Shooting Diary 4

We went to film some last minute footage of the clown in the box at Adele’s house as we realised there was still a few imperfections about some of the shots within our film and so used Adele’s summerhouse in her back garden as it was a sufficient amount of light which we needed. 

Shooting Diary 3

With this being our second day of filming in Felixstowe we were determined to be able to film all of the scenes which we need to reshoot and also do the mugging scenes and the backward tracking as it had looked slightly shaky after looking at it at school. Our filming ran very smoothly and we were able to get the filming that we needed. 

Shooting Diary 2

This was our first lot of filming in Felixstowe, Adele and I went to the Forum amusements to ask permission for the use of the outside of the amusements in order to be able to film there because it was the perfect location to put the box and also get a god establishing shot for each opening scene. As much as we had aimed to get all of our shooting in Felixstowe done in one day, this was very much an unrealistic plan due to the fact that we needed to film certain things multiple times and could not do that because we needed the same lighting for each scene and the sunlight was fading too quickly meaning that our footage would look completely different no matter how much we tried to lighten it with our editing process meaning we would have to go back another day to finish off our filming with the poor quality of the camera in dark light.

Shooting Diary 1

On our first day of filming we did most of our filming within the house which is where the clown is alive and is going to pursue the male. We tried making Paige’s mum’s room look more manly by taking off the flowery bedspread and also bringing in some props of male aftershave and hair care products. We did feel slightly disorganised because it was our first day of filming and we were not sure what to film first and because we were concerned about getting all different angles we felt that we were taking longer to film the same features over and over again. Hopefully our next filming session will go better.

Planning Schedule

 We knew we had to do our filming during the half term, so, as a group we decided to do our filming on two different days. We can then shoot all of the house scenes on one day, and all of the scenes to be filmed in Felixstowe on another day. It is of course always important that we have a back up day in the event that one of us cannot make filming on that particular day and you can never tell whether or not we would be able to get all our filming done in just two days as they are supposed to be set at around the same time of day each afternoon.

Target Audience

With our film we have decided that we want to have a target audience of young adults and so have made this short film a 15 through the fact that the concept of the film is more of a young adult’s theme with the concept of tempting fate and also the fact that the clown looks scary. We have also felt that we would make our film suited to young adults because of our casting making young adults our lead female roles and have a tall male in his 20’s to be our leading male. We chose to have females in their late teens to show that it was not always very young people who are seen as thugs or deviants and that it is not always young males who are at fault.