Production (Filming): Day 3

For our final filming day, we needed to film the ending for our short film. As we waiting for the sun to go down to be darker, to correlate the convention of horror we began filming where we left off. We made sure that the characters present in the last scene for filmed, started with the exact same clothes and in the exact same position. This is so the continuity of the film was flowing consistently.

For the first shot, as Danny retrieved the phone call in the last scene we filmed from an 'Unknown Caller', we started off with Danny conversing the the caller. Being unknown to him who it is, the fact that it could be the 'stalker' was oblivious to him. However, as the same voice of the 'mental' member he prank called earlier filled his ears with the petrifying sentence of "You forgot the lock the back door, didn't you dan?", he realised they were in a whole lot of trouble.

After this, we filmed two different positions of the characters within the house. We tried to gain and induce tension in the film by cross filming what the characters were doing. For example, we firstly filmed the 'stalker' gaining entry in the house, with him going up the stairs and looking for Dan and Thomas. As well as this, we filmed Thomas and Danny hiding in their positions away from the 'Stalker'. As the stalker goes up the stairs getting closer and closer to the two boys, the tension gets greater as in one shot we filmed, he was close to finding Thomas behind the bathroom door.

For our ending of after what we filmed, we made two jump scares. One being Thomas investigating the house to think that the stalker is gone. However, once he begins to call for Dan, we gets taken dramatically and killed by the stalker. After that, he enters the bedroom of Dan, staring into the room being still. We filmed Dan calling out to see if its Thomas, however the jump scare being the 'stalker' lunges for Dan creating a very dramatic ending, without there being a resolution to the film.

We feel that the scenes we filmed on this final filming day was successful, and have now nearly finished our short film and all filming needed for our piece. All filming days were successful and we weren't in need to film any additional camera shots, as we felt the shots we filmed on all three days were sufficient for our film.