Production Process of Filming

The equipment we used to film our film include a basic tripod and a digital video camera, we had to use natural lighting and only the sounds picked up by the video camera, so basic equipment. The majority of our filming took part in Eastbrook Chase, a local nature preserve that had the characteristics we needed such as woodland areas and a river.

During the filming procedure we encountered a number of setbacks. A number of setbacks were due to the shooting schedule, although we did have a shooting schedule there were often changes made to it which sometimes affected our filming process. After we made our initial schedule we then had to change our actress because of conflicting agendas. Which resulted in us acting the roles. This set us back as we had not prepared to act the roles ourselves as we wanted to concentrate on the aspects of the film behind the camera. Following the loss of our actress we then lost a fellow member of the group due to a lack of participation on there part, this also created further obstacles and strain on our shooting schedule as we then had to re-arrange how we were to film the film as both us remaining members were also the actors in the film.


This is footage of our original actress Nataile Camilleri

This sometimes caused difficulty especially when both character's were involved in the scene but on the other hand, made it easier for us to arrange to film and follow the schedule as we only had to have the two of us there, when there were more people we often found it difficult to get everyone to be in the same place at the same time. As there were only two of us in our group film and we were both acting out roles in the film we ad to be clever and creative in how we shot scenes that involved both of us in the shot which basically involved setting up the camera initially then getting into out position leaving the camera unattended.

Other setbacks in our schedule was the cancellation's due to weather which would have effected the continuity of our film and the change in our script, changing the process of the film meant we had re-plan and adapt our schedule and editing what we already shot to suit the adaptations. The reasoning behind changing the storyline of our film was that we found filming a car accident with the basic equipment we had seem a bit of an ambitious idea, one that we couldn't match. Therefore after a failed realistic attempted we opted to change the storyline of the film to a modern approach to the classic villain and victim horror film with a stalker being the modern monster.