Filming

Today we booked a camera and went to Katies house to film our teaser trailer. We wanted to create a home video, in order for the audience to see the characters from their view. We started with a shot of us driving to our new house. The camera angles were all close up shot and the camera was shaky to show we were not proffesionals and to make it more like a home video made by an ordinary person. The next shot was a mid shot of me and Katie outside of our house getting the keys ready to go inside. We purposely look over happy in order to show to our audience that everything is good and nothing can ruin it for us. We then have rhiannon following us with the camera to the door and us opening the front door. We used a lot of general conversation about moving in and how excited we were, but no planned speech as we wanted to make it believeable that it was a home video. We also shot a close up of a knife on the kitchen surfae spinning to indicate the genre of our film to be thriller. The next shot a wide shot of me Katie and Rhiannon (filming) of us in our living room sitting down relaxing saying about how much we love our new house, again indicating that everything is okay and we are happy with living here. However to indicate the thriller genre I say I have a funny feeling about the house, and that I feel like we are being watched. This then makes it not seem so happy and makes the audience want to see what will go wrong at the house. The filming was time consuming as we may have said something wrong, or laughed etc. So many shots were taken in order to have a suitable one for our teaser trailer. Although this wansn't our original idea for our trailer I felt this may be a bit more believable and suitalble than the previous idea. Next lesson we will upload our video onto Pinnacle and start to edit our clips in order to get our trailer.