Practise Shots

After deciding on the general layout and genre of our film, I went out and took some practice shots of places where we could possibly use for shooting. I took some pictures that could represent the drawing of our storyboard and some general pictures of places that you might see in horror films that help to create a mysterious and possibly eerie mood.

This is the window from where the possessed girl would jump from, but the modern window frames could pose a  problem to authenticity of the time period.

These were all pictures of places where the older sister is running through to find her younger sister. I think it looks really good and would sets a scary mood because of all the overgrowth. It makes the places look untended and abandoned./ deserted.

I also took some practise images of what the magazine cover's main images might look like and experimented a bit using Photoshop to get a better picture of how the whole piece would look like with the other magazine cover elements. I'm glad I did this because in the practise images the models were too close to the camera so when shooting the final images the positioning of the models would have to be reworked to leave space for all the elements that would be placed on the cover.

These sort of poses I found were common amongst film magazine covers that had more than one  model. One model would stand behind the other, which I thought would work well for the cover because it would make it seem like the older sister is protecting the younger sister.