Yippee! Another Production post!

In this production post, I'll be talking about the shooting process me and my group were able to do this week.

On Wednesday my group and I were able to film some parts of our film, like 3 shots due to us being crunched on time.
I'll be showing pictures where I circle the scenes we were actually able to film that day.

The scenes I circled were the only scenes we were able to film on Wednesday
We filmed it at night in order to be able to capture the eerie dark atmosphere we're trying to convey.
As chosen in the planning blog post, I'd mentioned who'd be playing what scenes.
For the first circled scene where the zombie walked in, we had Nich in a full black fit, consisting of a black hoodie and a black pair of pants so that he could blend in with the darkness.

I like how the scene came out, we were able to show a darker atmosphere, with low-key lighting as it sets the hallway as a key point in the set.
I think Nich was able to do a good job, of acting mysteriously and threatening as I don't want the viewers to think of the main threat as a zombie, yet, making it look more humanlike while being able to ensure fear.

In this scene, we highlight how both the father and mother were able to escape, hiding successfully from the first zombie in the room beside them.
The whole point is to give off a sense of relief from avoiding such a big casualty, leading audiences to believe that both parents could actually survive.
We chose that it'd be best to have the light source from inside the room so that it would make the zombie more viewable to audiences.
To add context, the reasoning behind the room being a light source is, that because the mother and father had climbed into the room from a window, there would be lights outside that would gleam and illuminate the inside of the hallway.

In this scene, the whole purpose is to highlight the father's fear and state of shock while witnessing the death of her love, her wife.
While filming this scene, Hannah and I (she's our camerawoman) tried various different places on where to angle the flashlight, or phone light as a source so the audience could tell the types of emotions I was trying to convey with different facial features.
If I'm truthfully honest, I'm not that proud of how this shot came out, I think the time crunch that we had, having done this on a school night really affected how impatient I was to get this done.
I want to try to redo this shot, attempting to convey more emotion than before just so I can include the audience more in-depth in the events of the story.

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