Shooting Day: Problems Encountered

On the shoot day, me and my group had some problems with the props and the layout of the house, but we managed to work around it and didn't let it get in our way. The main problem we had was that the owner of the house had 2 dogs and a cat in which we need to keep them in the dining room the whole time. Also, I noticed the reflection in all the photos which I decided to remove all the glass to get rid of the reflection.

"Scarlett" Test Shoot

Here we took a look at the house that we planned to film in. Our group did this test shoot on an iPhone to see whether to house template would fit with our idea and to practice going from rooms to rooms as smoothly as possible.

Shooting Day: Make-up

Me and my group were told that we had a make-up artist ready for us in the day of the shoot. But due to some issues, the make-up artist wasn't available therefore we had to work around it. Me and my group ended up doing the make up for the character ourselves using make-up and lots of fake blood. We used powder to make the body whiter than usual to fit the plot that he has been dead for a week.

Shooting Day: Lighting

In the living room, I wanted the lighting to be quite dim as it will give the audience the feeling of suspense.

In the final murder bedroom scene, we used some daylight lighting in order to make the character stands out more to focus on the details on the dead body. 

Shooting Day: Stairs and Background

On the stairs, I put some pot of paints lying around the make it look like the house is being renovated. Also, the background has a messy bedroom in which the character sleeps in when the big bedroom is being renovated. This creates suspense of the house as not being properly taken care of, in which, leads up to the final scene.

Shooting Day: Bedroom

Here I covered the whole room with plastic sheets and dust sheets to give an idea of the room being renovated. We completely transformed the ordinary bedroom into a vicious murder scene.

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Shooting Day: Living Room

In the leaving room, we decided to put everything out of place and make it look as messy as possible. This is to give the audience the idea of a young teenage boy living alone as they usually do not take care of themselves or look after the house.

Shooting Day: Kitchen

In the kitchen area, we brought some dishes, cereals, rotten fruits as well as food to give the impression of a teenage boy living alone and not taking care of the house. I putted some leftover food on the counter, dirty dishes in the sink.

Shooting Day Summarised

Early on in the morning, me and my group went to set up all the props at the house in order to make it suit our thriller idea. We brought our own props as well as made the best use of out all the available materials in the house. We changed the layout of the house around to suit our "teenage boy living alone" atmosphere, making the house look messy as it haven't been cleaned/ taken care of for a week. After all the sets and props were done, we did a test shoot to see whether it would look good on camera or not and change the house around as a result of that. We shot 4 full footage in total, all being under 2 minutes. After the shooting was done, we tidied up the house, cleaning all the dishes and removed all the bloody dust sheets, making the house back into the state that we arrived in.

Bloody Dust Sheets

Me and my group mixed industrial fake blood with some water to make it not too sticky, we then laid the dust sheets on the ground and splattered the fake blood onto them, giving the impression of a vicious murder scene. We will use this dust sheet in our final cut of the thriller.