Annabelle trailer remake evaluation

I had arrived late into the class and curriculum. This meant that i had to immediately put into action, which was quite jarring considering I had just arrived. No matter, I was put in a group that I was very comfortable with, Ohm, Nana and Eye were all great at what they do so I rest assured.

We got to filming the rest of the scenes instantly. I asked them various questions, too many questions, about what they are doing and planning to do. I then learned that we were doing a remake of the Annabelle trailer remake. The shot's they have filmed beforehand were great so we just focused on the scenes we haven't filmed yet. It turned out that there was no one in the role of the husband yet so I was offered to do it. It was a conversation scene between the MC and her husband so I wanted to create tension so I suggested putting the camera behind the one of the character whilst the other spoke. That was my first experience at acting in media studies and it may have been brief scene that I had to act in but I was happy with what I did.

I also suggested that we took some sound samples by using marker pens to create screeches on the whiteboard since I saw Nana do it and thought it would have been a good idea to just record it in case we needed it for further use during editing.

We consulted each other about the others scenes and went to different locations to film all of the scene. The next scene we had to recreate a scene which happened in the house so we had to somehow make it feel like we were in a house even though we were obviously in Rayleigh Center. Another thing we had to do was recreate a wooden door with a big gap, we had to get creative and use the sofas instead.

One of the scenes was of the main character running down the hall way, so we decided to go to the science block's female bathroom corridor as it has always been an eerie place. In that shot we were trying to instill the sense of fear and not being to run away from it. I suggested that we do a low angle shot on Eye's leg while she was running to put the audience right in the action.

I learned a lot from this experience, I wasn't able to do much but it made me realize just how fun Media Studies and filming was. I came in uninvited and was put into a great group, I was a little bit too excited and might have been rude and caused some trouble for them. However, I have now realized that filming is a collaboration and we should always listen to other people's opinion and that we should not push our ideas onto other people, only try to convince them. I look forward to doing more of these fun projects.