Filming

On Saturday 15th October my team and I went to go and film for the first time. We decided on filming 4 scenes. Our first is a flash back of the girl and the sister playing as children on the swings. They were holding hands and swinging so that they would appear to look more like children. Our second scene was also a flash back of both of the girls playing in a field of flowers. This shows them of the same age as before to show that it was a day where the girls were playing out in the park as children. Our next scene is of the girl becoming the evil girl. Later on in the trailer before these flashbacks we will show how the girl turns from herself to the girl lady and this is the scene we shot on Saturday. Our final scene is a last flash back of the sister being murdered.

In our trailer we have decided to show flashbacks which will give some idea of what happened to the girl before she turned into the mental patient and the murderer. Our main flashbacks shows the girls as children playing in the park. I filmed these two scenes as my other group members were playing the roles of the characters. I shot the girls from behind whilst they were swinging as we decided that it would give a bit more of a mystery within the flashbacks. But we did show the girls faces as we wanted to the audience to be able to see who they were within the trailer. We also decided that a two shot would be best as it is two young girls so as we wanted to show them both equally we thought a two shot would be the best way to do this.

When i filmed the sister being murdered we did lots of practice films so that we would get it to look exactly how we wanted it to. In the end we decided we wanted to show the girl just about the be murdered but not the girl dead so that the audience would be able to guess what happened without actually seeing it. We think that this we would be able to this and it would look good as if we tried to show the girl being murdered it may look amateur and unrealistic. I filmed the girl walking up behind the sister and i stopped the film just after she raised the crow bar to the girls head. The sister is just happily playing on the swing by herself not knowing there is someone standing behind her.

We also filmed a 2 second clip of the evil lady dragging the crow bar along the bridge which will lead to the park and then the swing where the murder will take place. We think that this would show the audience that the girl has now changed and she has gone to get a crow bar to begin killing. It also adds a bit of tension as at this point you will not know where the girl is going and why she is carrying a crow bar.