February 9th- All over again

Eni Berisha

February 9th

All-over again

February 9th was a depressing day. As usual the teachers checked on our progress and had an issue with the way we were handling our project. Mary realised that we hadn’t a house to use as a location and advised that the current filming that was being done was utterly pointless. We stood shocked, pondering on what to do. Than we were told to do the filming in college and manipulate it as being filmed in a house. Personally I thought this was ridiculous and was proud that the other group member thought it was ridiculous to. Out of nowhere, fed up, Derek made a quick phone call and we received the green light that his house was available to film in. Luckily, we had a three hour lesson in which there was more than enough time to complete all the filming. When we arrived at Derek’s house, with his permission we went about the business of ruining his house. Well, ruining to a certain extent. Carefully we placed the couches as if to seem someone had ruined the house. We threw paper all over the floor and turned the table on its head. Now we had the perfect setting so we went to the kitchen and the first shot we filmed was of me pulling out a knife. We contemplated on the angle for this but cleverly Michael decided it would be best for us to have a birds eye view shot of me pulling out the knife. We agreed that it would be a good idea to have this shot as it showed different tools but also gave speculation on who might be that is pulling out a knife. Could it of possibly be a murderer or perhaps a chef. The next shot was an over the shoulder shot on-looking Derek walking up the stairs from the perspective of the murderer (Eni). When Derek reached the top of the stairs we thought that suspense should be created by simply turning the light on. As in horror movies the lighting is crucial. The lighting inside the house was fairly dull and luckily I believe this turned out to be a positive result. My favourite shot of the lot has to be the next one, well it consists of three shots. Shot one sees Derek opening the door, than instantly we used a match cut and had the camera positioned at the back of the door. We believe this was a positive shot as the match cut turned out smooth and because it revealed to the audience that nothing lurked behind the door before the main character knew. Than impressively we added another match cut of the door clothing but this time the camera was positioned at the top of the stairs. When Derek enters the living room there is a sense of foreshadowing that something is going too happened, this is because the camera is positioned inside the living room, under the table. Derek walks directly towards the camera and picks up a letter. Cleverly another match cut is used and this time the match cut reveals Cathrine dead on the floor but only the audience can see this, Derek is to busy reading the letter. Derek than turns his head to the side where he sees Catherine dead on the floor, here the camera jumps back and forth to represent Derek’s point of view but to also reveal an expression from him. To reveal Derek’s expression we have a close up of his face and Derek runs his hand down his face in disappointment, this officially reveals that Catherine is dead. Here we contemplated on what should happen next and decided that Derek was to walk out of the living room and up the stairs to discover what is happening upstairs. Here we have a pan of Derek walking out of the room and cleverly Catherine suggested that the next shot should be of the murderer. As Derek walks up the stairs there is a close up of the murderer and the shot after is of the knife. The shot of the knife is very important as it foreshadow that its going to be in the centre of what is to happen. Here we finish the movie and leave the audience pondering on a cliff-hanger. If Derek is going to be killed or if he somehow overpowers the killer.

Than we rushed outside to film the external shots where we could only use 20 seconds of the necessary time. We already had shots of derrick pulling up in his car from previous shots so decided to only have three shots of Derek. One: of him pulling up in his car. Two: of the car engine shutting. Three: a pan of him walking into the house.