1. Laurie Amos
Monday 21st February
As it is half term, myself and my group are unable to record in school therefore
I have organised for both Jodie and Fran to come to my house for us to
continue going through the shooting script and recording all possible shots that
are remaining.
Unfortunately, there was an immediate advantage as Fran and Jodie were
unable to record at the time we originally agreed suitable over text – therefore
we had to rearrange for later in the day meaning that it was darker than
expected and we had to use a light on our phone whilst holding the camera.
The first part of the process recording today was to do our makeup suitable for
the shots we were recording. I followed the steps I had done when I looked at
Vampire Make-up styles earlier in the year...i.e. dark eyes, red lips, smudges
and pale skin. As you can see below – including fangs!

2. Laurie Amos
We were recording the first few shots on the shooting script that consist of us
lip syncing to the lyrics we had allocated – we chose the woods for this setting
as recording in my house didn’t achieve the eerie and mysterious feel and the
setting wasn’t as grim as we were intending!
We encountered few problems whilst recording, particularly that we had to re-
record the majority of shots several times, it wasn’t as straight forward as we
had expected and it was difficult to lip sync with the lyrics as specific as we
needed to, to match up with the song.
However, other than this, there were many advantages to our recording today.
We worked efficiently as a group and made significant progression from
helping each-other with applying our make-up to achieve the look we wanted,
to negotiating who would record which shots.
When watching the clips back on the camera, I found that there were a few
shots that worked well on their own – e.g. when we were talking together with
the fangs in, or making eye contact with the camera as the wind blew and
other simple shots that were unintentional actually worked really effectively.
When uploading the shots onto iMovie it will be effective for us to consider
these shots as replacements or shots that fill in between others.
Similarly, when Fran was in the mirror, I recorded an over the shoulder shot
and asked her to turn round really slowly – this will be another interesting shot
that I may be able to insert into the video, and if I do so I will also have to alter
the shooting script so it matches up with anything new.