Production Blog: Into The Woods

After my plans were rained out for filming the last half of my film, which was planned on being located outside, I rescheduled filming for today! All of my group members, excluding one, all rode to one of the filming locations as soon as school ended. My other partner, however, forgot to bring his costume and filming equipment. This included a black hoodie, black sweats, a canon camera, and microphones for my actors. Once my partner arrived at the first filming location and met up with my group, I started filming. However, the camera that my partner brought had no storage left on the chip, so I had to come up with a backup plan. I decided to use my partner's iPhone 11 to film since she had the clearest camera. I helped pick out a costume for one of my actors, who is playing Ashley. This costume included black shorts, to represent the dark side of the film, and white shoes with a light blue tank, to show her innocence. I then gathered everyone into the car and headed into the woods. Once I arrived, I realized that I had forgotten to bring props including, fake blood and a fake knife, so, I had to gather everyone into the car again to grab my props. Once I arrived at my filming location for the second time, I laid out my props and began filming. I had to film certain angles such as an eye-level angle and a low angle which required me to reach the same height as my actors and get down on the floor. Since I am very active, this was not an issue for me. There were also many tracking shots, which I had to film. During certain scenes that required tracking shots, I had to walk with the actor, and some required me to ride in a golf cart to get a still shot of my actor. My partner's phone died, so I had to improvise and use my phone to record the last few scenes of my film. These scenes included low angles of one of my actors holding a prop, which was used to show power. To create this horror effect, I added fake blood onto the prop knife to make it look like the killer just had an attack. Once all shots were filmed in the woods, I headed back to my house and said goodbye to my group members. This day was very beneficial to me because it taught me how to improvise when props were missing, and improved my filming skills.