Shooting Practice : Horror Scene Recreation

 This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a cinematic scene. We did this as a group ( Maxine, Kenneth, Shannon, Bams ). 

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Lesson Description : My teacher told us to find a scene from a movie in our genre which was the Horror genre. Our task was to recreate the Jennifer's Body specifically at the school corridor scene... 

Original Scene ; 

Our Scene ; 

Problem :

1. The camera was sometimes shaky in the middle of recording due to constant imperfections within the camera angle or movement which can make some scenes with no sense and context ( character wasn't in the camera angle thus, talking to nobody or the camera movement was too far from the characters to be seen clearly ) 

2. Lip-syncing to the original audio was a bit abnormal due to the characters while recording can be either nervous, embarrassed or not good at acting for the sound to be synced to the audio. 

Solution :

1.  We could possibly use a stabilizer or a tripod for the recording part to prevent 

shake or weird angles within the recording session.

2. Retake many shots to see if we can perfect it the original audio or get actors that are good at acting like doing a Screen Test with various actors we picked out that could be good within the context of our video to prevent weird lip-syncing to the audio. 

Next time :

1.  Most likely practice for the camera stillness because, purchasing a stabilizer or a tripod can be too far out of our current budget and we might need another cameraman that has a stable arm just incase for the camera movement.

2.  Remember to take as many shots as possible to have a higher possibility that the lip-syncing wouldn't be as abnormal or off-synced.