FILMING DAY!

 FILMING DAY!

After weeks of planning and researching for this opening film, we are finally ready to start filming! This is a huge steppingstone for my group because we are now shifting our focus on editing and producing the opening film along with producing our CCR. I never thought this moment would come so fast as this entire journey feels like it has been going at the speed of light. So today we met up at my group member Lenny's house as this was where we were going to film the horror film opening "The Landscaper." 

Throughout the filming process I took charge of taking all of the behind-the-scenes photos for the blog and Lenny were the cameraman throughout the process. Dave was the "killer" acter in the film opening, Lucas was directing us and telling us the type of shots and angles we need for most of the scenes, and I was taking all of the behind the scene photos throughout this entire film process in order to have a detailed blog about our entire filming process, I also was making sure the lighting was good in each shot and made some changes throughout the film opening. 

     In this shot of the confrontation between the homeowner and the "Killer" we chose to incorporate an over the shoulder shot as this would best represent the encounter and the dialogue being said between the two. This very tense shot was filmed with a handheld camera movement to show the tense and nervous interaction of the homeowner. This scene is moments before the homeowner is represented to be passed away. The killer in this scene is shown to be doing the gardening work very late at night and for the people that live here in Weston, no one does garden work past 5pm especially the ones hired by the city which is what Dave is being represented as. Overall, I feel that this shot was a very impactful moment for our filming process as we had the main building piece for the rising action in "The Landscaper."

This low-angle two shot of the innocent homeowner and the "killer", we see that Dave has a chainsaw in his hand which represents what will be used in the kill scene. To clear things up the chainsaw was off throughout the entire filming process to ensure safety amongst the participants in the film. In this shot we can see how Dave is shown to be much bigger than the homeowner through this low angle and this represent how powerful he is in this moment. This shot was very uncomfortable for Lenny to film as he is lying down on the rocky surface just to get this shot and we had to redo this approximately 3 times to make sure that the acting was done perfectly, and the shot was filmed well. this Overall, this shot is key to the next piece in our film opening as this is the cherry on top for the kill scene to be represented. 

     Here it is this moment was capturing moments before the kill scene and this encounter happened as the homeowner turned around to call 911 franticly and before he had time to press call the killer grabs his left shoulder to stop him from doing so. This shot was filmed with a low angle to once again show the power and strength that Dave has over the homeowner. This was just 1 of the 2 kill scenes that was represented throughout this film as the mother was also seen to be killed but later on after the 2 minutes is up we can tell she survives to tell her story and later on capture the killer with the clues being left inside the house. Overall, this scene was the most crucial part in our film opening as we remade this scene 5 times to make sure it was close to perfect with the angle and camera movements being spot on.