Film diary

Date; 11.2.15
Time; 3:15
Location; Green Room

I filmed all the sequences where my witch is featured alone. The lady screaming at the beginning of my trailer is the witches mum and I didn't bother looking for another because I thought I could use the same face as they're mother and daughter and are bound to have similar faces.

I filmed after college as that's the only times my actress and I have matching free time. I had quite a few problems with camera and lighting. The lighting was initially meant to be dark to connote horror and to meet the iconography of a horror film, my teacher and I playing around with the lights it still seemed bright. I took photos of the actress for my magazine before I filmed the sequence. I also filmed me doing her make up. Overall that day was stressful everything was going wrong and didn't meet my expectations but too much time was waisted as I thought I could do an hour and a half as I planned to do her make up in 30 minutes and then film photograph in the remaining time. However, I used more time as expected and wrapped up at half 5.

There was one lunch time were I filmed my actors meeting for the first time during lunch time.


Date: 26:3:15

I was supposed to film today, after college of all of my remaining sequences that I had planned. I got my main actress ready according to my research and my supporting actor had already got ready and went to the cemetery; location. However one of my actresses went home without telling us as she had a family emergency. I respected her situation but disappointed, which then I only managed to film the last scene in the green room whilst she had her make up done. I was initially planning to get the remaining filming done during half term but they were either busy or not in Hull and finding a date for everyone to get together was difficult.

The Monday we returned back to college on 13:4;15 I arranged to meet my two supporting actors as I needed to film a crucial part in the narrative. This was successfully done on college campus.

I finally found a date for filming which was on 18:4:15 in the morning in the cemetery of Spring Bank West. My main actress couldn't wear the make up I had planned because from filming she had to go straight to work. So whilst filming I had to dismiss her face. Once again I was disappointed as my supporting actress didn't turn up which made me impatient. I contacted her a several times but she wasn't responding. I then just carried on filming following my story board but I added another scene in where my main actress is looking at a grave stone to add more footage. If I knew that my supporting actress would fail on me again I should have just filmed on the 26:3:15 and would have learnt my mistakes and made improvements sooner.

DEADLINE DAY! 20/4/15

 I had quickly made arrangements to film my supporting actress screaming whilst she had constantly delayed me before. I couldn't do her make up the way I had planned it but to so I just compromised and drew wiskas, eye-liner, lipstick and eyebrows.