Pre-filming activity.

Canted angle test footage

As a group, to practice our camera shots prior to the filming we did a few 'test shots' to make the filming process easier. One of the shots we wanted to use in our final project was a canted angle from the floor level, so therefore we decided to do a test of that. Our plan is to introduce the main character into our project this way. This is also a convention of opening titles and scenes. The setting of the place we are filming is a forest, and this may create problems when doing the canted angle, hence why we did a run through first. 

Editing

After uploading our footage in Final Cut Pro, we applied filters on top of it to make it darker, as most horror movies are set in dark locations to create an eerie/thrilling atmosphere for the target audience.

A filter we experimented with and applied was 'Isolate'. It made the footage darker which is what we aimed for, and we believe this could be a potential filter for our final film project.        

Before filter:                       

After filter:

'Romantic' was another filter that we used and like in Final Cut. It created a slightly hazy effect to the shot.

This effect could be good to use if it's raining on the day we film and so therefore we can not create the atmosphere that we aimed for naturally, so we would have to use filters to create a similar effect. We also tried out some audio filters such as 'Cathedral' and 'Delay Designer' we chose to use the latter audio effect to enhance the natural sounds of birds and Beth's footsteps, as it will draw focus on her entrance in the footage. This audio filter would be good to use in our final project. 

Edited test footage