Horror Prelim. Construction

For our clip, we decided to subvert from the original film clip as we chose to portray the characters of a brother and sister, whereas in the film clip, the characters of a mother and daughter are used. We did this mainly because as we used actors that we were easily able to access. We decided to use Aamina's house as the location for all our shooting, as her house replicated the one we saw in the original clip. Also, this was a good location as we were all able to meet up easily, as well as the actors. 

Constructing our scene was more challenging than we thought as we came across a few problems. Initially, we had thought that if we follow our shooting schedule, we would be able to get the whole scene shot in that time. However, this didn't go to plan and we ended up spending a total time of 4-5 hours, completing the shooting. This was mainly due to the retakes we had to do for some of the shots, as we wanted them to look exactly like the film clip. Also, the part where the wardrobe door opens, we had initially thought of opening the doors with strings, however this did not go to plan as the strings were visible and would not open the doors as they were too heavy. Despite this problem holding us back, we overcame it due to improvising as Aamina went inside the wardrobe and would open the doors form the inside, when needed. One of the major problems we encountered was the lighting as when we started the shooting, only natural light was coming in the house, which resulted in the lighting looking similar as though in the original clip. However, as we had to retake the banister scene a few times, by the time we got to shooting the wardrobe scene, it had got dark outside and therefore we had to turn the lights on. This heavily affected the outcome of our final clip, as the transition from the banister scene and the wardrobe scene evidently shows the drastic change in lighting. 

Regardless of these issues, our construction went very well as everyone had an input of how we could make the shots look better.We also used a tripod in some of the scenes, however, the majority of our clip used handheld shots, as these were the shots we noticed in the original clip. While filming the whole clip, everyone in the group was able to have a go at shooting a part of the scene, so that we all knew how to use a camera for recording and also because we wanted everyone to have an equal role in the construction of the clip. In our clip, I shot the scene in which the character is walking towards the wardrobe, using a front view tracking shot. We thought that including this would be effective not only because it was used in the original clip, but also because it helps create suspense due to it looking like the character is trying to grab something. 

Finally, in order to edit our footage, we used Premiere to create our final clip. We did this by transferring all our footage onto the system and putting all the shots together. We included lots of transitions from one scene to another, as well as including a variety of special effects and the original soundtrack of the film in the background. We did this as it would make our clip match the original, as well as provoking an intense atmosphere for our viewers. Finally, we uploaded our completed work onto YouTube.