Filming - Day 2

We continued filming in the dark room today so that we could finish a few more shots of our title sequence. It was a successful shoot and we managed to film two more of our titles. The lighting in the darkroom is an ongoing issue, it has been difficult to get enough light in order to read the cut out letters that form our titles, however, we realised that colour played a large part in the legibility, with red and pink not showing up on camera under the red lights. We swapped these red letters for others in order to overcome the problem.

Here is one of our shots. Our title appears on the wall whilst the light flickers in the dark, providing brief flashes where the words are legible. This helps to create an uncomfortable atmosphere and is in keeping with our genre of psychological thriller. The idea of 'flashes' is a recurring theme throughout our two minute film opening as we plan to have extremely quick flashes appear of one of our character's victims. The  flashes also hint at our character's unstable mental state.

Another one of our titles appears on a cupboard as the main character opens it. It was quite difficult to light this shot as the words needed to be legible, however, too much light caused a reflection on the glossy magazine surface when the cupboard opened. We managed to overcome the problem, we had to compromise, meaning that the shot was slightly darker than we had intended.

 

On the left shows some clutter that we needed to get out of shot as we felt that it was too distracting. If we need to re-film today's footage or get any new shots, we will need to ensure that we remove these objects again for continuity. On the right is a poster that we had to remove from the cupboard in order to place our title, there were many more posters in shot that we had to remove as, not only were they distracting, but it didn't make sense for a professional photographer, like our character, to need instructions on how to develop photographs all over the room. Here is our vlog from today: