Second Day, Second Attempt

Hi. Today's filming has been delayed an hour due to bad weather conditions, however we are not giving up! I dropped into college today to pick up a tripod for the establishing shots, and we thought id update the blog on how our filming is going. Last Friday, we (including Sam's actor friend, Justin) made our way to Cowplain to begin filming the all important opening sequence, the pub scene. Truthfully, we had no choice but to film the pub scene, because we noticed that it got so dark, it was impossible to see anything in the forest we filmed. This is when we decided to stretch the schedule a bit, and film some shots today.
Filming went along smoothly though. Sam's friend did extremely well in presenting ideas, and acting out his role. He was happy to take part in our work and we were honestly surprised that he doesn't mind being thrown to the floor in the midst of our trailer (Getting muddy and wet perhaps). Also, Sam decided to play a supporting role as 'Toby's' friend, who helps take the mink out of who's now called Lauren (Alice's role). The character name was changed to Lauren, because incidentally, Toby/Justin confused it around when we said Laura before. So now, we have footage of the pub scene, with him calling my character Lauren.
The location of the pub scene was good, for we found a small corner to film in, where no one was around and gave us a chance to be ourselves when filming. We didn't want people in the footage to be looking around at the lens as we filmed, it'll be off-putting.

Today, we're hopefully going to film all of the establishing shots, the tracking shots and the hopefully the running scene with me running alone through the woods. It's gonna be tough, because Alice has got to force herself to get exhausted in order to create realistic footage, and that she's got to look scared and petrified and maybe have to scream too!
Matt will be in charge of the camera work, whilst Sam will be there to fill in maybe some empty roles, and to give his personal opinion on the footage. We need opinions! So feel free to comment.
The lighting of the area is causing some major issues at the moment, and for one thing, its getting us worried whether if its alright to film from a dark pub scene, into a sort of bright, running scene. Of course, we can edit it into a dusk atmosphere, but what about the edited night-vision shot? We can't edit two things in one piece of footage at once. I guess we'll find out later after the holidays during the editing process. One thing for sure, we hope we'll get some really cool photos today like we took before. You'll find these photos on the photos bar on the right. The photos taken during our last location scouting; the ones that were taken and edited by and Matt has downloaded on his iphone. They were beautiful if you ask.
We can't wait for our next filming session, for it includes Sam dressing up as the Antagonist, and its Matt we have to rely on to get just the right shot of the grabbing moment. One thing that gets to us, is how Sam is going to see when he's wearing a mask AND a white shirt over his face to make a blank face. It's surely going to be a funny day of filming indeed. Right we're off, with the tripod, to begin our second day of filming :)

Updated Script and Filming

Last session, we updated the script. New lines have been written in, and hopefully, it's all been sorted out and ticked off ready for filming. Filming will start in about 2 hours, and hopefully we'll get most of the shots done and out of the way tonight. Next week, we are doing some of the more complex hard scenes, and re-shoot some the footage we may have not quite liked beforehand. Sam is dressing himself up as the antagonist, and Alice is getting ready to play the role of Laura. She's a little nervous but hopefully it'll go smoothly tonight. She's bringing with her an array of lighting equipment, including a large torch to help get around the dark forest with and hopefully to pick out good lighting in the footage. Matt may also be playing a guest role too, as one of Toby's best friends at the pub, who pick on laura for not being old enough to have a drink. Toby is going to be played by Sam's friend who offered himself kindly to play it, thank goodness. And Matt will be the person behind the camera, hopefully to get all the right shots and camera angles in there.

Anyways, below is the updated, script:

Script and Basic Updates

Last week, we began writing the script to our trailer. we attempted to piece together our ideas, characters and expected shots into it, however it didn't turn out as expected for Matt. This is normal though, since now we began developing upon it, cutting out sections, writing new ones in, and starting to REALLY bring our trailer into the light. The beginning of the trailer, she wrote both characters Laura, and Toby talking about villains of movies and what they do to their victims. Matt didn't like this, for he wanted the trailer to start out with a warm atmosphere, where students are just chilling and having fun. So we cut that section, and replaced the conversation with a normal, non-hollywood cliche conversation about drinking and ID's, and how Laura is picked on by Toby and probably his other friends. One other thing, is that we wanted to present Laura, as an innocent, sane heroine character, as for Toby, a sort of drunk stupid character who always dies first. This works well with the plot, for they've all just finished their night out and walking home. Laura asks if Toby could walk her home since the shortcut to her house is through the woods, and that its pitch black. He accepts, however he doesn't know what is about to come.

The first draft of the script, and the updates we made to it are presented below: