Horror Film Remake

We created a horror remake, of the first few minutes of the horror movie 'Scream'. We did this for practice, so we all got used to using the cameras and editing our film. We got the script, and acted out the scene where the woman is in the kitchen on the telephone. It was simple and easy to reconstruct, but due to our bad time keeping, the continuity in our final film was quite poor.

The actual scene is set in a kitchen, so with having to film inside the school, we decided to use the food tech room. We tried to make the scene look as realistic as possible, but given that we were in a school, we couldn’t do much about the surroundings and 'classroom theme', but we managed the best we could.

For the part of the scene, where a popcorn clip is shown, we moulded some tinfoil over a bowl in order to make it look like a cooking pot of popcorn. We couldn't actually cook anything, because there wasn't anything to cook but when we were filming we made the tinfoil rattle to give the audience the effect that it was indeed cooking.

We ask one of our friends, Tom Wright to be the voice over the phone because our group is all girls. I think we worked well, so having actors in our main piece won't be a problem because we will just get on with the filming. We actually used a real phone call in our piece, by asking Tom to go into another room and to ring my phone. Then we put him on loudspeaker to give more of a ruffled telephone effect. The phone was held up by the camera at all times so the audience would be able to hear it quite clearly.

This task helped us and taught us a bit more about the cameras, and how to use the dolly when filming a 'tracking shot'. I'm glad we managed to practise before our real piece because we are now more familiar with the cameras themselves, and how to make the shot look steady and realistic.

All in all, I think we worked well as a group. We all had a discussion on what we need to improve on and we shall follow this through with our final opening of a horror film.