Filming progress

Now that we have completed our filming I think that we were successful. The footage that we recorded was to the affect that we wanted - confusing and tense to the audience. As we did not have access to a camera we had to use a high quality Nokia. This actually helped us because as it obviously had a lower quality than what the camera would have had this made it look much mre realistic in the way that it is someone watching the girls. It made it confusing because it was not clear what was happening at all times, although it may not look good at first glance of our footage this is the affect that we wanted so I feel that using the Nokia was much more successful.

We encountered some problems when we were filming because we wanted to film in the dark but realised we did not have access to any lights to be able to see the footage. This meant that we needed to film when it was gettin dark. We did not realise how quickly it got dark so some of our footage is not clear - since this we have found a way to overcome this issue by changing the brightness and contrast of some of our footage. This has made it much clearer. As Kiera and Fran were unable to help with the filming we found our first idea hard to follow as we only had to female actors. We then figured a way round this by tweaking the story and making it a bit more confusing so that the story is not given away in the title sequence.

We have followed the ideas from the films CloverField and Blair Witch Project. These films both use handheld cameras to give it a much more realistic feel to it. As the main theme of our title sequence is that the girls are being watched, the use of a handheld camera made it much more successful.

Above is footage tht has been taken from the Blair Witch Project. The camera quality is not of a high standard which makes the footage seem much more realistic. I feel that this film was very affective and moved the audience and made them feel unfortable - which is exactly what we are going for in our title sequence.