Production : Test Filming

Before we started filming our we started filming our the footage for opening of our teen horror film we practised with the camera we would be using, since we first started filming with 
I-pads  going onto the cameras were very different and we had to learn how to handle them and film correctly. We did this so our footage for our project would be better and more professional.

John test filming

Me test filming

Agne test filming

Overall we found this extremely useful when we started filming as we had experience with the camera and knew how to sort out the focus and contrast, as well as learning to zoom before recording.

Planning : Shot List

Planning : Mise-en-Scene

Mise-en-scene is a French term that simply defines 'put in the scene'. This term covers the main elements of symbolic codes like costumer, make-up, setting and props. By attaching symbolic values to these certain items, we'll have our audiences make assumptions or impressions about those codes.

Evangeline will have smudged make-up on her face – what is known as ‘mascara tears’ – this will show the emotional turmoil she's gone through. 

We will also have blood of her victims from previous crimes smeared on her face to show clearly what she has done and that it was her that did it. As well as blood splattered onto her white dress, which will represent her corrupted innocence.

Her hair will be messed up and big, showing how she’s gone feral.

For the clothing, we came to a conclusion of a white dress because it will represent her innocence – or lack of - but will also allow the red of blood stand out against the white. We also decided for Evangeline to be barefoot because it gives her the look of someone wild and out of control.

We came to a decision of using a meat cleaver, discarded and covered in blood. We think that it's relatively a messy but traditional weapon for the killers in common horror movies, and we also thought that using such a close contact weapon, Evangeline would get he pleasure of the blood – the lifeline – of a person running down her arms, allowing her to feel it, makes it more personal.

By showing old photos of her previous families will give brief ideas of the range of types of families Evangeline has experienced in the past. The photos will progress from very old photos to more modern ones as the opening titles go on to give a brief timeline to the audience. Along will these there will be features of newspapers consisting of articles mentioning some of the families' mysterious deaths. There will be blood splattered across the top of the newspaper.

To further support the fact that Evangeline is possessed by a demon, we thought of featuring symbols related to the devil, like a devil's trap or a demon sigil - these will be painted on wallpaper and put onto a wall - to represent possession and give the audience clues of Evangeline's current condition and relationships with evil.

Demon sigil