Second Filming- Colette

Last Friday in the double lesson we filmed some of our shots again that we felt weren't good enough. The main reason for re-filming was because the lighting was very bad. the shots that we re-filmed were:

• When the mum comes through the door into the house- we redid this because the lighting was originally very dark. Also, the character's actions were boring and the dialogue was too repetitive. 

• Tracking of her running up the stairs( from bottom)- The lighting on this shot needed to match the shot which we had refilmed already. The running needed to be more frantic

• Shot from the side of her coming up the stairs- Lighting was dark, needed to match previous shots, running speed was too slow

• Shot of her running up the top of the stairs (from top)- The lighting for the original shot was really bad. In the original shot she stopped running before she got to the top of the stairs she slowed down which looked bad. 

• Opening child's bedroom door, medium shot- again, this shot needed to match the lighting of the previous shots we'd filmed.

• Opening bedroom door, close up- Lighting was too dark

• Opening door from inside- we hadn't done this shot before but we thought it would make the shot more interesting

• Looking around child's bedroom, ots,handheld- we decided to change the lighting in the child's bedroom. In the first shot the lighting in the room was very dark and eerie. However, we thought that it looked too 'horror' so we decided to use natural light from outside instead,

• Getting the phone call, close up, ots- the actor forgot the correct ring for the re filming so we had to film the shot again
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• Phonecall, Medium shot- This shot's lighting was too dark and the shot was boring
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• Phonecall, close up- this was not originally a shot but we thought it would make it more interesting and create enigma

Here are some before and after shots of the scenes we reshot.

As you can see the first shot had no added lighting at all. This made the scene boring and it was almost impossible to see the character. At first we thought the low lighting would help to create a scary atmosphere, however it just looked dark and boring. In the reshot scene we made the character turn on the light as she entered the house. This made sure that the shot was well lit and also made sure that it didn't look like artificial lighting had been used so it looks more true to life.