Short: First Day of Filming!

 

Hello! I am so excited to announce that we have officially started our filming process for our short movie Possessed. On December 5th my group members and I all gathered at Jake's house around 5 pm so we still had some daylight time to get in our first couple scenes that needed to be shot outside. Our two good friends Katelyn and Savanna also tagged along to help us out with whatever we needed. We forgot the original mirror prop we were going to used that fit our aesthetic so we needed to improvise. Jake had a pink circular mirror with a pink handle so we fixed it up. We took one of Jake's black socks and wrapped it around the handle but then we thought about how in our script we have markings on the mirror. So I took a scrap crumbled piece of white printer paper and wrote down symbols we thought to look like mystical markings that needed to be decoded. Then after that was situated we headed outside of Jake's house to film the opening scene. To help out with lightening we used the flash on the iPhone camera and we had Katelyn shine an additional flashlight on us. My group and I ran through our lines a bit and did our shots of us walking up to the "abandoned" house, discussing it, and walking through the door. We did the takes about 3 times each to ensure we got it just the way we wanted like the angle and to make sure there was nothing in the background that would throw off the mood like the neighbors xmas lights. Since all four group members was on camera we were all helping guide Savanna where to stand and shoot from, when to start and stop recording, etc. so that our vision was really brought to life. The next thing we did was rearrange and take out items in Jake's house to make it look more abandoned and also threw some white bed sheets over the furniture to add to the effect abandoned effect. Next I shot and directed the scene where Avalon finds the mirror with the spirit inside. We tried out multiple shots and angles that way when we film we can pick the one we like the best. Then since we had this area set up we decided to film all of the scenes that took place there. We ran through ad shot those multiple times as well.