BEHIND THE SCENES- Ashtead park

Today, we filmed part of our trailer at Ashtead park. We arrived there at 6:15pm and started filming around 6:30pm. It took us a while to get started, as we had to adjust our camera onto a"Night mode" setting, as it was too dark to film using the camera's natural settings. It was a successful hour and a half.. despite the freezing weather, we managed to create some effective filming that we feel will fit perfectly for our horror trailer!


We used our own flashlight to help generate different flashes of light. The ring light was handy, as it had a clip on it. This meant that we could move the positioning of the ring light around the camera easily and effortlessly. This picture shows one of us using the ring light on top of the camera. Placing the ring light on the top, helped to make the person in shot (Subject Matter) appear much clearer on the screen. the ring light also had a balanced amount of light, due to the fact that it was a circle. Also, filming when it was dark, meant that we needed to create our own light so that the subject matter could be seen much clearer. Using a tripod in our filming was essential to achieve effective shots. As we have to create a a magazine cover too, it meant that we had to capture photographs as well as footage. Therefore, having a tri-pod meant that we could get sturdy and professional looking photographs and videos.  The tri-pod also had a handle on it, so that we could adjust the camera to different positions, for example, a canted angle, whilst still having a sturdy photograph. 

Here is a video of the filming that we got up to. When Katy had to put the clown mask on, her hair kept getting in the way. This would break the continuity rules in filming, as it would make the audience switch back to reality that what we have created is not actually real. It was useful working in a big group, it meant that each of us picked up on different things that didn't look right in shot, for example, peoples shadows in certain shots would have broken a rule of continuity. 



Our costumes were a key and essential part to the trailer. As we are filming a trailer, not an opening two minutes, it meant that we had to have a range of costumes, so that we can show the entire film. It could look odd if we were all wearing the same thing throughout the entire film- excluding the clown obviously. Our antagonist was wearing the same outfit as before (black jeans, black hoodie and the mask), the three girls, again wore causal and simplistic outfits that conformed to our generation of teenage girls. We wore coats, jeans and trainers which we feel helped to express their vulnerability and innocence. Regarding the location of where we were filming, we filmed at Ashtead park in surrey. We decided to film in  park as we feel that it help to link in the clown. Clowns were historically aimed at children, and children play at parks. To more recent ideas, clowns are now looked upon as creepy and sinister, so we had to incorporate this into the park, which is why we filmed at night. In addition to this, the research that we all did regarding the location, 34% of people agreed that a park was a good location to film a clown horror, so we took this advice on board, and acted upon this. We managed to capture lots of interesting shots, including close of shots of a swing, swinging on its own. This connotes the idea of spirits and the supernatural- as something must have made the swing move. We think that we are going to include this earlier on in the trailer, to help set the atmosphere without giving too much away.