Final preparations before filming

 This thursday, my group and I will start filming our thriller film. As the date approaches, I am working on final preparations before my group and I begin filming. I am going over all of the angles, shots, camera movements, lighting, different locations, and the scripts we put together. We will be using a wide variety of mid shots, low angle shots, close up , and zoom shots.As states in previous blogs, enough research has been done on these type of camera movements since they are the most common ones being used throughout our film. Lighting was a very important factor as we had to schedule our time to film. 3 p.m was the best time to film as there are numerous park scenes to be filmed between the 2 friends. There are also some scenes that will be filmed with low key lighting which is why we decided on 3 as it was neither too late nor too early. The different locations, according to the shooting scripts consists of different places around the park. Such places are the playground, the swings, and the park's parking lot. The inside filming will consist of the kitchen, and where the couch is located. Additionally, as my group and I came together to decide our roles, it was somewhat difficult to decide who was going to play who. Finally we decided and I got the evil mom role. According to the script, the mother does not have many lines until the ending. She does, however, have to create suspense and a creepy sensation through her face expressions. There are many close up shots on the mother's face to indicate the tension and suspense as she is preparing her sinister plan. For this reason, the mother's expressions, movments, are all very important as they make the audience curious, to want to know what is going to happen next. At this moment, before we film, I am going over my lines so there won't be too many mess ups during the filming process. Finally, hopefully all of this research and reviewing will come in very useful during our filming process which will begin very soon. 





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