Filming! :D

So last night it was the first night of Annie! We thought this was the perfect opportunity to put our ideas into practice by using Millie and Kira in our filming testing the shots and toying with different angles and shots. By this we thought of a new idea, having Kira underneath the stairs in which we will film Millie's reaction to both from the front and back view so can make a clear edit. Cindy (I) thought of running up the stairs as a POV shot with Kira beneath so the viewer can clearly see her also to understand Millie's reaction.Which looked quite spooky and could range our type of shots. I thought this could highlight the idea of the chase around school. 
  We tested the lit corridor with Kira which we thought worked really well! We continously kept flicking the lights on and off to create an eerie effect pausing and playing the camera, having Kira in the central frame placing closer to the camera each time we paused it. This was difficult at points as it was hard for Kira to find the exact same position she was in previously and hard for her to keep still the whloe time. However, it worked well either way as we plan to have this parts cut throughout the trailer so wouldnt have to transition well.
   Thinking about costume, after looking at the trailer with the red dress we thought to develop our red balloon idea, the red dress would work better and could look really effective! Because Annie has a red dress in our school production this can help majorly as Kiah wears it in the production anyways so would fit well and stand out against the dark background.

The dress looks extremely similar to this, so the red and the white will stand out against the dark lighting in the scenes.

With Millie's costume we have finally decided to stick with our set school uniform. At first I thought that it could be a problem because our uniform (Langley Park School for Girls) is quite iconic due to the pattern of our skirt. However we understood that when we film our scene in the corridor with all the other students, Millie is going to have to wear the same as everyone else in the shot (filming at lunch time) in order for her to show she has started a new school.

Tomorrow we are planning to film our finalised scenes for this in which we will use in our trailer with costume. Also, I brought white face paint in which we could use on Kiah to create a pale (ghost like) look, as well as black eyeshadow under the eyes.