Production: Diary Entry

March 2nd, 2020

          Today we started reshooting. After first period, we asked if my partner, Josie, could leave class a little early to position herself for our first shot. We planned for Josie to stand outside the classroom door, and to film all of the students coming out of class before Brittany (Me) makes her grand entrance. Josie proposed the idea last week while we were planning the shots, to have Brittany be on the phone with someone for the majority of the scene. I think that adding the phone as a prop was a great idea, since it shows the audience the tine period the movie is set in and also gives reason for Brittany to be distracted from her Stalker. Filming this shot was interesting, after the bell rang there were many students walking in the halls to their next class. I thought that this setting might be a problem at first because of the amount of students that would be in the frame, I was worried that people would get in the camera's way as Josie filmed the tracking shots and would block the view. However, we quickly solved this problem by waiting till the end of the passing period so Josie would have a clearer path for filming. 

          We also decided to use the steep set of stairs we have on campus more, this new setting helped establish the transition of our characters from the school grounds to the student parking lot. Josie filmed a couple of shots similar to the ones used in the first take, however we altered these shots to have better angles and to help preserve continuity. To make the last shots of the scene scarier, we made our Stalker (Cody) position himself closer to Brittany. In post production, I'm hoping that adding some sharp toned music will help amp up the jump scare factor we were trying to achieve. Some issues we faced while reshooting were the differences of our Stalker character's costume between the 1st time we filmed and today. Josie fixed this issue by suggesting that we film this character from the waist up, so that we could use the shots we wanted from the 1st shooting day. I think that today's shooting went a lot smoother, and that the addition of other students on campus and in the parking lot really helped enhance our film's mise en scene.