On this day, none of the extras came as they were not needed and some of them were not available today. Today only had me, Samantha, Sofia, and Aleena filming. The first thing we did was film our title sequence, as we did not need it to be dark outside to film it. The first clip of the title sequence that we filmed was the "Mafia" card scene. This scene was pretty easy to film. We had a little trouble deciding which cards we wanted to be flipped over, which was discussed in my title sequence blog post. But, we eventually decided which one we wanted to do and filmed it. We took a few tries due to not being happy about the speed of the pan, and also in the process of getting the pan right, we added the flicker of the lights and zoom in of the King card. Next, we filmed the polaroid scene. This scene was also easy like the mafia cards. At first, we wanted to do crime scene photos, but when we took the polaroid pictures of the pool, the pictures were too dark (almost pure black) and decided to not waste all of the film on that. We then took pictures of the four of us and did a pan shot of that as well. Once again, we needed different takes due to disagreements of the speed of the pan. But we got the shot done and moved on to the next scene.
The next scene we filmed was a fail and had to be replaced with another shot. The original shot was meant to be the "sorry" word from the storyboard, dripping from the wall. We used ketchup and strawberry jelly to resemble blood and put it on a clear foil because we did not want to ruin Samantha's houses walls. This did NOT end well. The foil crumbled up and the jelly/ketchup all fell on Samantha's floor (we rushed to clean it up). To replace this, we filmed a scene of candles lit over a pile of cards. But before that, we filmed the paper burning scene. For this scene, we wrote a letter of a girl inviting her friends over to a sleepover. It had a little bit of an eerie motive to it, for example some quotes of the letter include: "P.S bring a flashlight. Sometimes the power flickers during the night." and "Just make sure you're ready to play, because once we start, there's no stopping.", these all add to the eerie atmosphere of the movie. Also, to make more mystery not knowing who the killer is, we scratched the name of the letter so the audience does not know who its with. Then, we had Samantha hold the paper, only showing her hand, and we originally burned it with a lighter, but it wasn't burning as quick as we wanted it to, so we burned it with a match. We also dipped the paper in tea and burned it so it cold seem "old". We then filmed the candle scene, and that was easy and we got that done quick. We then moved to the pool scene.
In the pool scene, we only had to film the killing of Samantha. We attempted to do this before, but we ran out of time. At this point, Sofia and Aleena already left, so Samantha's mom was the hand of the killer instead of me so I could work on the lighting, angle, and framing of the shot. We took multiple shots so when we started editing, we could have a few clips to choose from. We also added a scene of Samantha floating, to show she's dead, and a scene of the friendship bracelet floating, to show that the killer is a person in the friend group.
This day was very successful filming wise!
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