Filming: Saturday 5th December 2009

The day started at 10:00am sharp as we met in norbury to take a trip to the graveyard. As we entered the big, spiked black gates of the graveyard we observed the thousands of tombstones positioned in the field. It was a frightening experience, especially when it was my first time in actually entering a graveyard. We travelled through the far end of the graveyard and located a well lit spot where there was an old looking, cross shaped tombstone titled on the ground. We felt that this enhanced the fear factor of the shot. We wrapped up after this shot and rushed out of the graveyard as if someone was following us, well that is what it felt like anyway.

At my house, we set up the film set by clearing out all the unuseful props in the backgorund. The rain was created by a hose pipe which we adjusted to create little droplets of rain. This hose pipe was held from a higher level to make it look more realistic. The actress was directed to actually scream frantically in the rain, using body language to express pain and suffering. We filmed a lot of takes of different angles and distances just in case the shots weren't good enough on screen.

It was a thought of the moment to film birds flying up to the roof. This idea sparked up as we were testing the camera so we decided to make the birds fly from the ground by running across the garden. This was an effective idea as happened to become a shot that we are going to use in our trailer. We felt that it brought a sense of realism to our trailer.

This very same day, we let the actress dry from all that imitation rain whilst we filmed the photo frame shot. This was slightly difficult as we failed to hide away the strings that pulled the frame forward. However, we managed to create the effect in the end. We were scheduled to film the shed scene, but realised that the shed door would not shake (we made someone stupidly bang the door continuously for a bit of fun :)..) to create the effect that we hoped to achieve so we decided to remove this shot from the trailer.

After a long day of acting, filming and directing we packed up and kept our fingers crossed hoping for some really good footage.