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1. FMP 2 Diary Week 7
I faced challenges this week during production in the location of the filming, the time of day
and getting the best quality shots to be used in the film. I filmed exterior shots of an isolated
looking house before the production started so I would have something to edit for my project,
even though I made slow progress and I hadn’t planned a story yet, it went better than I
expected. Because I was trying to film an isolated house, the building I chose had to look like it
was on it’s own but it was hard because it was next to other houses and right in front of a busy
road. The filming eventually went well when I was able to get a clear shot without cars driving
past, the shots I filmed of the house were very spooky and I was able to film a shot of the
moon to add to the scariness. I used my college iPad to film the house but I had to go at night
to make the darkness setting I wanted (filming it during the day and putting a dark filter over it
would’ve made my work look amateur), I then used iMovie to edit all of my footage together.
This weekend I plan to move forward by getting enough footage filmed so I’ll have something
to edit while I’m in college and I can be on schedule with my project. The strengths of my
project are successful establishing shots which looked creepy due to me filming at the right
time of day, the weaknesses I face were filming several establishing shots but only two of them
were usable which left me with less to edit during college time. My plan this weekend is to film
the opening scene of my project and then the establishing narration that explains how the
Public Service Announcement is going to be told. The moon shot changed my ideas by me
using that as the opening shot because of how spooky it looked and it fit with the classic
horror genre trope of those films starting with a shot of the moon. My ideas have been
influenced by the house shots because they’ve taught me how to create scary lighting not just
for exterior shots but for interior shots as well.