Filming-Ashtead Park

We filmed at Ashtead Park on the 29th November. We arrived at the park at 18:00 and walked up to where we wanted to film. We had a few problems at first. This included changing the camera settings to night mode, loosing the batteries for the little ring light for lighting and having trouble with the tripod. After about 15mins we managed to get everything working effectively and began filming for our horror trailer!

As you can see in the picture, we used our own ring light which was ordered of Amazon as well as phone flash lights to generate light. We found these very helpful as they capture the best angles as well as reducing the darkness! The ring light had three different settings of brightness, we found the second setting to be the best as the others were either slightly too dark or slightly too bright. There is also a clip on the light, which means we were able to position it on, and around the camera in order to make the clown/main subject appear clearer in shot. We also have a tripod, this enables us to capture a clear and crisp shot without it looking blurry or unbalanced. The tripod comes in extremely handy due to it having a handle to change direction and angles. For example as our trailer is horror we felt a canted angle would be successful to use. By having the tripod we were able to accomplish this. When making our magazine cover and poster the tripod and Nikon D3000 will allow us to take professional looking photographs and videos.

At the park, the main parts we wanted to capture were of the clown. This includes Katy to be dressed in all black with a clown mask on. We will be using this mask throughout the trailer as we feel its successful when creating fright and tension.  As a trailer shows different events and days we want our characters apart from the clown to have different outfits. However, we still want them to be wearing mainly dark colours and simplistic clothing as it conforms to the horror genre and ideas. Our coats, trainers and jeans imply that we are young fashionable teenagers who are vulnerable and innocent. The Park is ideal as it links to children which also reflects clowns. As they are usually made for entertaining children, although have a negative stigma which makes them appear scary and sister. Without spoiling our trailer, we took many shots, which hopefully conform more to supernatural events than gore. This includes a scene where the swing is swinging all by itself. We don't want to include gore as we feel it may not look as successful as we want it to.