Filming Blog: Working on lighting and sound

Continuing the film, March 16th, there was a few things that needed to be changed. The lighting needed to be corrected through filming because editing did not suffice. Some scenes had lighting fixed through the use of a phone camera. For example the killer scene. Since it was really dark outside, you couldn’t see the killer standing over me. So, another participant had to put their flash on their phone and shine it on the killer in an angle. The phone was not visible but the lighting was much better. It created a black shadow in the back so only the killer was visible. This really added to the scary theme of the film. Even more so, since the filming happened on different days, a few factors changed lighting. This was due to both the weather and the time of day. Some days were cloudy and then also the time difference was a role in the lighting.  Additionally, the sound had to be arranged. I had decided to ring the home phone to create a creepy feeling in the film. The phone continuously ringing added an element of suspense. However, we had to reshoot this scene a few times to get the phone call on point. The heavy breathing on the other line did not pick up in the audio so I decided to remove that part of the scene. The sound of the bottles dropping came out really clear and was effective for the scene. Most scenes were fine with lighting and sound overall. Sound could be fixed later on with editing.