Filming: Tuesday 1st December 2009

It was a beautifully lit day to shoot today. We were able to use the sun to our advantage. British weather usually surprises us with tears but Britain was happy today. We began by collecting our equipment and props to make sure that we have everything we need to film. We then set out to our chosen location which is the deserted area of Tooting Bec Park. I was able to park my car close to the set so that we could easily access our equipment. We then chose the best spots to film the scenes, being where the sun light hit. This enabled us to film with better picture quality. Our actress, Jasmine (The Producer) struggeled to cope with the weather so we stopped to warm her up every now and then. We shot the investigation scene first, using an actual body to act dead on the floor. We used iconography such as splattered blood on the white sheets to highlight the horror genre. Then, whilst Jasmine was getting hair and make up done, we shot the hand held camera shot and added a bloody hand at the end of it. This would represent another murder occurring. We then went on to filming the scene where Elizabeth moves closer to the camera. This took the longest as we had to shoot many of these shots with the actress in different positions to maximise the effect we wanted to acheive. When finishing this, we went back to my house to shoot the remaining scenes.

The 'bath tub' scene was very difficult to shoot. It was hard to acheive the effect we wanted. This is because the actress kept slipping in to the water and was unable to pull herself up in time to create the realistic effect. The shower scene from Carrie inspired us to shoot this scene as we felt that water was used constantly in horror films. We shot this scene successfully in the end as we came up with an idea to let the person who was filming the shot at the time stand on the feet of the actress to help her lift herself up from the water in time. We thought to edit it later on to perfect the shot.

The final shots were of Elizabeth 'crawling' and her 'crab walk.' Filming these scenes even frightened the crew. We adjusted the tripod to suit these scenes and filmed many takes in case if any problems arised. After these shots, we wrapped it up. It was an enjoyable but tiring day for all of us.