Filming The Trailer

We filmed the majority of our footage in one large session of filming, this took around 6 hours as mainly done in daylight filming. Our idea followed common conventions of the serial killer in the sticks because of this as locations we used film from a small village centre and a small house in the middle of farmer fields this allowed us to develop a great sense of isolation to increase the fear factor of the trailer and hopefully portray this to the audience.

To film the clips for our trailer we used a variety technology. This was the best way to achieve a trailer with a high quality like hollywood productions.

Some of the equipment we used;

• Cannon Eos600D; This camera features a 18 mega-pixel CMOS sensor 
• Go Pro; We used this for POV shots and exploring shot we had got ideas of using it to shoot interesting shots with water however we did not get round to this
• Camera Stand; we used this to set up shots so we had stable film of certain scenes.

When filming we ensured to use shots commonly associated with horror films however we wanted to do these in a professional manor so looked up videos (one can be found below)  and guides on good film shots to use that can; add tension, add dimension and generally pace the footage.

For the genre when going into filming we planned on getting several tracking shots to add a sense of movement, PoV (Point of View) shots to hopefully make the audience feel the fear of the character, this is also useful for portraying isolation which is something that removes possible hope that should infer more horror. 

Lighting is also very important within film production. This is due to its massive influence in setting the mood of the shot although the objects on screen also make a massive contribution. Because lighting also needed to be looked into and researched. It was apparent that our lighting setup had to reflect what mood or atmosphere we wished to portray on screen in terms of postioning and general knowledge on lighting when filming I looked and videos like the one below and certain websites like This.


As a group we decided to film the majority of footage outside using only natural light as this would suit the feel of realism we was attempting however inside we used reflectors and basic positioning like seen above to light up our actors.
Here is our shot list;