Third shooting hour

On Thursday the 19th of November, both myself and Amy gathered Joe and Talia together to film the shots that are of Sophie discovering images off Bowe's computer and the shot at the front door at the end with Sophie's sister (Juliet). Initially me and Amy had planned to do the shot of Sophie sitting watching a tv and finding a DVD and Bowe's T shirt, putting the DVD into the TV and crabbing quickly from an over the shoulder shot of Sophie watching the DVD to the facial expressions of Sophie and Bowe out of focus standing in the doorway behind her. But due to the fact that me and Amy couldn't find a DVD for the character Sophie to be watching we decided to change it to her looking at his laptop. We then sourced images from various places such as a previous horror film called 'Murder Set Pieces'. We filmed in the same location that the scenes where Sophie s tied up and beaten in, to add continuity and so that the audience can recognise the location. It also appears as a domestic setting, which from our questionnaire we discovered that our audience would find most scary. We sourced these images from the Internet as obviously we wouldn't of been able to create them ourselves, but they are vital in portraying our plot and genre. Due to limitations on the equipment we had available to us, unfortunately our crabbing wasn't very steady as we had to improvise and use what was available to us. We therefore fashioned a dolly out of a tripod and a small desk with wheels. But again we feel this wasn't steady enough and didn't create our desired effect so we decided to cut the crab. As the cameras lens wasn't wide enough we where unable to create our shot that we desired and therefore had to change our pan slightly to make it so that we could go from an over the shoulder shot looking over Sophie's shoulder to a shot looking at Bowe in the doorway. We also decided to remove the shot of Sophie finding a bloodied t shirt as we felt once we started to film it, it didn't look right and didn't actually add anything to our trailer so we decided to cut it. We then began filming our second shot that we where going to film by the front door of Amy's house. This shot is of Sophie's sister (Juliet) getting to the door and Bowe opening the door with a knife behind his back. We had initially planned to do a distant shot where you can see Bowe answering the door and see Juliet on the other side of the door way, but when we tried to do this, you could not see Juliet at all and therefore we decided to improvise and film from a higher angle where you could see better. We felt this looked more effective as it gave Juliet less status and authority implying she is weaker than Bowe.

Creating our title

Myself and Amy decided that we wanted our title of our film to be simple but impacting. We wanted our logo to portray the genre of horror so that our target audience can instantly tell the genre of our film by reading our title.




Here is the 1st Title that myself and Amy designed. We used a black background to portray a dark element of the film, we used white lettering ontop of this to add contrast and therefore make it stand out more and easier to read. This font is called 'Northwood High'- from dafont.com. We decided to use a font that is broken in areas to give it a weathered look. We felt that this design although it does portray a sinister look wasnt appropriate as the lettering is too neat.

For this title myself and Amy again used a plain black background to portray a sinister look contrasted by white lettering to make it stand out. We used 'Northwood High' for the 'White Lies' title and 'Scratch' font for 'coming soon' we feel that although both fonts are weathered, the 1st font still appears to neat compared to the second one and isnt as scary as the top one.

This is our final design. We feel that this is the most effective as it reflects our genre well due to the distressed nature of the font. It is very simple and easy to read but also has personality and isnt too boring. The font is impacting as it looks as if its been carved, this gives it character and life. It could also be interpreted as similar to a child's handwriting, which connotes innocence. This is in sharp contrast with our film and therefore creates a twisted and more emotional connection with the trailer.

Second Shooting Hour

On the 10th of November, Myself and Amy filmed our shots where Sophie Green is tied up to the bed and she is injured. We thought these shots would be hard to film as they are very emotional and require a lot of concentration. Our actress, Talia Feld, was very dedicated to her job and allowed us to do what we wanted with her makeup and clothing and she also acted passionately. As well as filming we also took photos of the scene, as we may decided to use these instead of the film, as it is more snappy and gives a greater impact to the audience.


We then did Talia's make up with fake blood and black and blue eyeshadow to create a 'beaten up' look and used a piece of material to tie her up to the bed post. We then filmed short clips of her crying, looking scared, screaming and pleading fo Bowe to 'stop'. This creates empathy with the audience

We took a varied amount of shots in order to give us as much choice in our creation of this scene. We used close ups of her face to show her emotion and her facial injuries clearly, we also used high angled shots to reflect her low authority and position in the film.

Here are some images of Talia after we have done her make up.

First Shooting Hour

On Friday the 6th of November, Myself and Amy gathered our cast, Talia Feld and Joe Marshall, and took them to a large field area in Old Farm Park. Despite researching the weather conditions for the day previously as sunny it unfortunately rained. This made our filming harder to carry out as the lens was becoming wet and the cast were finding it hard to perform. In our plan we also wanted our field shots of the couple to be filmed in sunny conditions to reflect the happiness of the characters; however we thought we could use the clouds to our advantage, as it could foreshadow the danger and betrayal in the relationship.

As we filmed we used as many takes as we could to ensure we had enough film to use and edit, this will work to our advantage as it will help us in creating the most professional and emotive trailer we can.

We filmed three specific shots where Talia was on top of Joe play fighting, Talia was running playfully away from Joe and when they were hugging and said, 'i love you'. Although the cast performed well in the conditions provided, as 'love' is an awkward and hard emotion to show, we felt that our filming wasn't very believable. In our questionnaire the public are most enticed by a realistic style of filming and we want our trailer to be as realistic as possible. This led us to think of a different way in which we can film it, to keep a scary and realistic atmosphere. We came up with an idea that we could film from the character of Bowe's point of view for the first half of the trailer and the character of Sophie for the second half. We feel from this the audience will be able to interpret a full concept of the story. This style of filming may also confuse the viewer, which exaggerates the genre of horror. As it’s from a first person perspective, it makes the audience feel as if they are there and also scares them more as they cannot see whose perspective it is from.