Filming in the dark room

Yesterday we started to film our footage of my dad in the dark room. We filmed the credits in the dark room as well as some footage of him developing photos of Charlotte, and we also panned the camera across the room to show pictures of past girls he has taken pictures of and stalked.

We had the choice of two dark rooms in the school that are used for photography students. There was the choice of the new, modern dark room which is bigger and would have had a lot more space, or we could choose the small old dark room which is not in use anymore. Aimie, Charlotte, Molly and myself all being photography students as well as media students decided we would take a look at the old dark room to see what it was like and whether it would be suitable to film in. When we walked in we knew straight away that it would be better to film in. In comparison to the newer dark room, it was far more creepy, it was very small and looks like it could be a room that the stalker has in his house/garage. We looked around the dark room and found a board where we could stick pictures of girls he had stalked in the past up. There was also a line with clips where we could hang up pictures of ourselves for the credits.

In my free period, Charlotte, Aimie and Myself made 'profiles' for past girls the stalker has stalked. We stuck down pictures that we had got developed from Aimie's camera of people from school, and wrote down random information facts that could make the stalker look really creepy. We crumpled up the paper, and made some rips in them too so it looked old and tatty, we pinned them up on a board next to the door in the dark room as planned.

After school, we took pictures of Molly, Aimie and Charlotte gagged as the stalker has already gagged Molly and Aimie, whos pictures are hanging up on the line. Its then Charlottes picture that he had taken recently (which we will be showing in our opening) and then he changes round her picture to a picture of her gagged also. We end the opening on a picture of me, alive, on the phone, being his next victim. It ends in suspense as the rest of the film will be about the stalker trying to get hold of me. We panned across our pictures, with our names attatched and these are our credits. We carried on setting up the dark room until my dad arrived. When my dad arrived we took these shots, and we also took a shot of him walking in to the dark room. This caused a problem because we wanted the red light that switches on to be in the shot but we also wanted a reasonable amount of my dad shown. Where we placed the camera you could clearly see the red light, but when my dad stood in position ready to walk into the dark room, you could just about see the top of his head. We moved the camera back further and managed to get more of him in the shot and it looked much better.

I think the filming in the dark room went reasonably well and we had a time limit as the school shut at half 5, we managed to keep inside the time limit and got everything we needed to get done. Our filming is more or less done now except one more clip of Charlotte that needs to be filmed, then its just editing left to do!