First filming

Our first day of filming was held at Kelly's house, where we used her sister's room to 'pose' as our character's bedroom. We had to empty the room before we could set it up as we would like it during our title sequence.

This is what it looked like before...


and after...


First we had to make props for our filming. In these particular scenes the child is supposed to have drawn lots of disturbing, child like pictures of death, such as drowning, poisoning and more. So we had to draw these pictures as if they were drawn by a child and then set them up around the room.



Once we had finished setting up, the room looked like this... we set it up in a circle to create the illusion of being enclosed and claustrophobia.


We had chosen this particular Rag Doll, because it seemed more likely that a young girl would play with a female doll rather than male. The Doll is also black, we chose this to show that there is no discrimination in our film. This goes against stereotypical conventions, that the colour of the doll does not make any difference to the storyline or plot of our film.

We were able to create lots of different angles whilst filming, through not only using the tripod to create a steady shot, but also handheld to be able to 'swoop' over the action. At one point, to get a close up to the character's face, i sat under the bed with the camera to get a different and more intimate persepctive.


Finally, whilst we were filming, we were able to overcome a problem we faced. The loft in the hallway was broken and therefore in our shot, which ruined the effect of a long, blank hallway. So to overcome this, i held the loft up, whilst Joe walked down the corridor filming, managing to keep both me and the loft out of the shot, and therefore keep the mood and atmosphere we had created.