Production : Filming

For filming we decided that my house would be the best place for filming as I had somewhere we could burn our photos safely and had a dark creepy shed at the bottom of my garden where we could film Amy and we could film in there even if the weather was bad, so it was therefore the best place for filming.

For the filming of the fire - where we burnt the photos - we came across quite a few problems. The main one being the wind as it was hard to keep the fire going and the photos kept blowing around. We fixed this problem with lighter fluid. However, by the last set of photos the fire had gone and so had the lighter fluid, so we were lighting the pictures so they started to burn and then put them on top of the coals; this method worked ok, but in future we will have to consider the wind before we start filming.

John filming the burning photos.

Rebecca filming Amy's possession in the shed.

Rebecca filming an extreme close-up with Amy.

Agne filming the demon sigil thats been stuck to the wall.

Production : Preparation - Part 2

Starting Amy's makeup

Before we started filming we had to do Amy's make up so it would have the effect we wanted, to do this we used mascara and water to make it run. However while doing that we realised it wasn't having the effect we wanted, so we used black eye shadow to make it look as if her makeup had run and smudged.                                                                                                                                                                          

We then added fake blood to her face and neck to insinuate that she had caused harm to someone. However, we made sure to only put blood on the front of Amy, so front the back she looks innocent and scared, contrasting greatly against the front of her.

Starting to make Amy's makeup look like it
had run and smudged.

Doing the makeup underneath Amy's eyes

Amy's finished eye makeup

Production : Preparation - Part 1

Before filming we had to create our props so that the miss-en-scene was perfect.
Firstly we created our fake newspaper covers, deciding on the headlines to have and what they should look like, because we needed the papers to look realistic.
Agne and John then created our fake newspaper using the website www.frontpageme.com and then suck them on old newspapers; we had three different newspaper covers.

John creating newspaper cover

We then smeared the papers in fake blood making some of them look like a bloodied hand had been dragged down the page.

Final newspaper

I then decided to make the Devil's trap and demon sigil, which I painted separately on two different pieces of A2 paper. Painting them in red paint and then going over them in fake blood and hanging them up so the blood would drip. We found this method highly effective and it played on the feeling of the film. 
We then stuck these pieces of paper onto my bedroom wall so that it would look like they were painted onto a wall. This worked very well.

Painted and dried Devil's trap, top. Half painted
demon sigil, bottom.

Starting to add the blood to the demon sigil.

Adding the fake blood.

The darker fake blood creating a more realistic
and bloody look to the demon sigil.

Agne the scanned some of her family photos and printed them off, creating multiple copies, so we could do multiple shots at different angles while burning them.

Agne cutting out the pictures.

The copies of the pictures.