Main Task-Filming

The three people of my group for the main task are Talia Welka, Abigail Ipalé and myself (Yaakov Tamir).

We started filming on a dull, cloudy, windy and cold Sunday afternoon-the weather was perfect for the work we were going to do. We filmed at "Spring Hill Garages", a part of which Talia's dad owns. The garage which we filmed in was very good because it was small, old, dirty and was especially scary because a man committed suicide in it eight months earlier...

The whole filming process took about two hours. We started by setting up the camera on the dolly and testing that the microphone was working well which was done by Raheem with our help. We then filmed a test shot of the first scene which was of Ian Welka (the psycho killer) limping up the path leading to the garage with a drill in his hand, ready to do some damage. After checking that the focus of the camera was okay, amongst other technical things, we rewinded the tape and filmed it again. We started filming Ian with a close up shot (CU) of the lower half of his body, and as he was limping up the path and operating the drill, we slowly tilted the camera up his body. This was the first footage in the filming process. It is also worth noting that we had a five second gap before and after each bit of footage recorded so when it comes to editing, we would not end up cutting parts that we wanted.

The last part of this scene was when Ian turned around to face the garage and broke the window before opening the pad lock and going into the garage. Inside the garage we laid out a bucket of tools on the table at the end of the garage that Ian brought with him for the filming. We also took a rope with us so we could tie Matthew Frener (victim) to the bars that came out of the wall. The next scene was filmed inside the garage. In this scene, we see Ian come into the garage. We film Ian coming in from the inside as we attempt a match-on-action shot after filming him just before coming into it from the outside, thereby fulfilling the purpose of the match-on-action (to see the results of the previous shot). After he stumbles in, we have a medium long shot (MLS) filming Talia playing dead on the ground, followed by a panning of the camera to Matt tied to the bars coming out of the walls in the garage screaming and begging Ian to leave him alone. For this, we used a close up shot (CU) so his desperate emotions are apparent to the audience. This shot also included part of the thick white rope in the foreground for added effect.

Our last scene was fairly short, and perhaps the scariest too. Ian takes some duck-tape and wraps it around Matt's head, before pulling his hair so he will look up, followed by the subsequent "drilling" of his head. This was all done with close up shots to show detail and the horrific, fearful emotions on Matt's face. In order to make this Thriller movie trailer as real as possible, we used half a lemon painted in the colour closest to his skin colour as possible and stuffed it with wet tissues and ketchup to represent Matt's brains and blood. The filming of a couple of seconds of the drill next to Matt's actual head followed by the drilling into that half a lemon was the last bit of footage we recorded on our tape.