Filming the chase scene

So, I thought, what's a different way to film a chasing scene? On where we zoom in and we see the character running? Or one from the POV of the monster? None. How about one where even the main character apparition of the character gives you a jump scare? or How about one where the character exiting somewhere perfectly fills the music and adds both tension and fear at the same time? Now you're speaking my language. I did both, the last both. I succeeded my goal by perfectly recording my entrance door with color stability with two pots.

 I did a pan left following where the character was running. Then a back shot following where the character was heading. Then I did a continuity shot with the leaves we saw in the introduction. Then (my personal favorite shot) I got in one of the bushes and started running inside them as I were to be the POV of the monster while the camera was following the main character. And finally a close up of the face of the main character while she's running. I looked at the shots and they were all pretty great I'm really excited on how this is going to turn out.
 Shot stability between the two pots. (looking like the shinning twins)

Introduction done!

So today was the day to film the introduction, in my case it was establishing the setting. I am doing everything time by time, this is in order to not be a mess and then everything gets mixed up, besides of the light of the night concerns. I grabbed my car and went to the nearest stop sign, this saying the name of the street (a self-explanatory way to establish the setting). At first I thought of doing a time lapse, but unfortunetly I didn't have the tools to make this happen (a tripod and a good lapse time app) I lasted one day (yesterday) trying to do the lapse time thing with my bare hands and a free app on the app store, the results weren't pretty and by the time I noticed this the light was all wrong so I had to film today. I did the still shot of the stop sign and then I used the ladder to film the street from different angles, the caution sign from the crosswalk in reparation, and some leaves that I found on the ground indicating that most trees are dead (allution maybe?) but it was also to establish time period on seasons.

   The stop sign used.

New plot

Okay so I've been thinking and I think that I'm going to begin my film as well as I was going to do it, but instead it will be shots at night of my street outside in Weston, Savanna. While a song a calming one but also one that induces fear is being played in a non-diagetic way. So then we get closer and closer to the house (my house) where our character will be hiding, in the dark from the creature that's hunting her. Then she will be escaping from her house but the creature will be following her. So while the creature will be following her and in that persecution the character will have some ocurrences that will cause the screen to go to black screen and some credits will be shown, and like that until the character has a moment of realization and a light from a car shows up and lights her up and the title screen will show up. Now I've been having some doubts, I have two options in what to do while she's running. I want to make her to entretain and induce the audience into the movie therefore I want her to drop something while she's running and my two ideas are either a bag full of hallucigenic drugs or an envelope which explains the cause of what's going. These two ideas will define all the film's plot to it's enterity, this since if we choose the bag of drugs then what she's seeing it's because of the drugs and if we choose the envelop then we enter a infinite world of sci-fi and it's posibilities. I also thought that we could combine both this will be by the character dropping the drugs and the events she is seeing makes her be a profet and she has to warn the town of what's going to happen. Or the junkie profet or the lonely survivor with knowledge of ocurrences, this are my two options.

Learning about light

For 3 days I have sat outside and have observed the sun. I think I developed a paranoia since when I was in Wynwood and the light wasn't favorable for me. So, what I did? I studied the light in my residence how the light post can help me achieve what I want to do, and at what time I want to film. I figured out that I should film from 9:00pm to 12:00pm.

I put a cronomoter and saw how the night was outside and how the camera of my phone reacted to it. My major obstacle was the temptation of using the flash of my phone. It's not that I couldn't use it but it's more that I didn't want to do it, a challenge that I put myself, besides, I feel like the flash of the phone completely damages the footage.

Learning to use my surroundings.... Again

So, since I'm planning on doing it at home I need to observe my surroundings again and how I'm going to use them in my favor. I was not thinking of changing my whole storyboard since I can adapt to a new setting using the same concept of scenes. So for the beginning which my goal was to establish the setting I plan on using a work ladder in the middle of the street since I wanted to climb on the roof of my house to film but my parents said no so I had to go with the ladder. this still shots of the street will help me achieve my goal of establishing the setting.

In my street they put this signs with lights and a caution sign because they are the crosswalk in front of my house, I also plan to use this on my favor. How you may ask? Well, The caution sign can make an allution to what's going to happen. The lights have a meaning in the story but I'm going to make the audience to figure it out what's the meaning of it.

Starring actor and Director communication

I have learned throughout life that one of the most important factors in life is communication, so I planned a whole day to communicate and incorporate the actor in all the different scenes and how I want each scene and with which expression I wanted it. We practiced the most important shots in our house in order to do it better when we get to film).

 I also explained the movie and what my goal in this movie, which is to make the audience feel scared. After a few tries of all the shots we got them all really good, with each and every expression prefect in it's own way. My goal in this was to make actor know how I wanted the opening to go and we both be coordinated when we get to film. The communication between the director and it's actors are the key to success in any film.





                                                                            Here is us                                                                discussing the storyboard                                                          and it's scenes

Change of plans.... BIG change of plans

So as of right now I'm quarentined at my house and I can't leave because of the coronavirus pandemic. This is very bad, I cannot go to the location to continue filming, instead I have to change my whole setting and I have to restart filming. This is since I can't combine both ideas, the one where I film in Wynwood and the one where I film at my house.With a different story and different ideas this two can't be combined. Therefore I have to start over. But that doesn't worries me I have complete faith that I will finish this project better than ever but I'm going to have to be very quick and very precise in order to do what I want to do in the due date. It may be hard yes, but I have to adapt to the recent changes. My genre will be the same, a horror genre film  but the plot will be very distinct if you will.  It will be made purely at home since recent events and it's going to be perfect.