Shooting Day!

So, the day finally came: shooting day! Alexa and I were actually pretty excited to see how we were going to create our set design with all of our amazing props. It started with us having to clean out the guest bedroom in Alexa's house of all furniture and items that would not tie into the mise-en-scene for our film opening, a creepy homemade torture room. We then found other props we could use in Alexa's house like the wooden board that held all of the kidnapper's knives. After setting everything up we officially started shooting. First scene was the zoom out of the radio clock to then the shot of just the kidnapper's big black boots walking towards a table at a dutch angle, to add an uneasy sort of feeling. Next, the high angle shot of the man's "butcher table" and him picking up his knives and stowing a way a person's finger in a jar. The purpose of this scene was to show how the man is very creepy and has an odd fascination, or is keeping random body parts in jars for a reason. Then we shot the man walking over to the bed where Annie is laying on, and from this point until the rest of the film i passed the camera onto Alexa as I am in the following scenes so I obviously couldn't film. We filmed all the scenes of the man taping my mouth shut, me screaming for help, him grabbing my hand and dipping it in blood,  and then putting my fingerprint on paper that also says the name of our "production company." Then we did a extreme close-up shot of my face, that's filled with terror, and zoomed in so that it's black and then the next scene is a zoom out of a blank piece of paper hanging on a wall that has the number 5 written on it. The purpose of this transition was to show that Annie is the 5th girl to be kidnapped by the man. Next, we filmed a scene of the kidnapper going over to a body on the floor to show that he has indeed killed the last girl that was kidnapend. We also were going to add another scene after that of him going to the bathroom to wash his hands of the blood, and when he walked away the number 5 would be written on the mirror in blood, but it didn't turn out the way we wanted it to; the angles and the lighting were just not cutting it. But, here's a pic of me and Lex in that mirror! Enjoy :)