Title Sequence - Final Day of Filming

We finished filming our title sequence today. We had to re-film the 'Starring Emily Field' title as our original shot was not of a high enough standard, the lighting was completely different to the rest of the title sequence, making it very distracting. The clear plastic bag that we used to protect the letters in the tray of water was visible throughout the shot, we felt that this was not a reflection of our best work.

Initially, we placed the cut out magazine letters, that spell out the title, on the floor. We then wanted a close up shot of my feet walking past, zooming in on the letters. This was very difficult to do because we could not light the shot correctly, leaving the title illegible.

 Instead, we decided to film the title under the light of the enlarger, a machine used to enlarge and develop photographs. We like this shot more because it shows the audience more of the technical aspects of the darkroom, helping to make our character and opening more believable. We also had to re-film a shot of a timer counting down from 4 minutes, alluding to the title of our film. The original shot was too dark to see the numbers properly, we used more light this time.
 

Our new shot

Filming the timer



We then had to develop our film that contained photographs of the main character's victim. We are hoping to develop individual photographs soon so that we can film me looking through them, creating a more eerie atmosphere as the audience realises that the main character is a murderer and that the photographs are of a dead person. Developing the film was quite difficult, it needed to be in complete darkness so that the film strip didn't react with light whilst we took it out of the camera. We eventually managed to get the film into the developing tank and could continue the easier part of pouring in the chemicals with the light on.

Measuring the chemicals

The developed film

Here is our vlog from the shoot: