Production Blog: Filming Day Second Half

Horror movies usually have a dark and scary theme. Due to this my group thought it would be ideal to start filming for the movie at night. No one was available nor wanted to do 2 days of filming though. Everyone came to the conclusion that it would be better to stay at Lili's house all day to film. In total everyone spent around 10 hours at Lili's house to film. Though the last few hours when the sun went down is when filming really picked up. The first filmed scene was when all the friends were talking. Hannah whose Briana's sister helped film this scene since everyone was in it. This scene wad really fun to do but kind of challenging because of the acting. The next scene was when everyone besides Briana had to run down the stairs and outside. This scene actually really scared me because I had socks on and didn't want to slip on the stairs. It took a few takes but I was able to overcome this and the shot turned out pretty good. When the filming moved to outside it was time to shoot my death scene. I was kind of nervous about running in the grass and road in only socks. In fact the first shot of this take I screamed twice instead of once because I stepped on a rock. This scene surprisingly only took abut 3 takes though. It was around 9:00 when filming this scene outside so everyone had to be cautious of the noise level so Lili's neighbors don't get mad at us. When the death scene of Lili and Angie were done so was our movie. At around 10:00 filming wrapped and everyone sat down to eat dinner. All in all this was a really fun, long, and productive day of filming but I'm happy all the filming was finished and truly enjoyed the entire process.


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