Red Run - Stairs Scene (Practise Footage)

The mattresses on the stairs used to cushion the fall.

Today Sam and I filmed some practice footage to test some of the scenes from our slasher film opening. In our film opening which involves a killer doll, similar to 'Child's Play', the doll is attempting to kill a teenage boy with the boy desperate to escape, he sprints through his house until he's stopped by the doll jumping and grabbing hold of his leg causing him to fall down the stairs. To film the boy falling down the stairs, Sam and I put two mattresses down the stairs to make the fall comfortable and filmed from the top of the stairs, making sure that the mattresses weren't visible because if they were, it would be obviously how to shot was filmed and it would lose its effect. We didn't film the shot where the doll grabs onto the boy's leg but as he's holding the boy's leg when he falls down the stairs, we tied the doll around the leg making it look as if he was holding onto it, causing the boy to fall. Obviously at this stage of filming, the shots aren't as good as they could be and there are definitely some things that will need to be changed to improve them. Sam and I will upload our practice footage to Vimeo and embed it on our blogs so that others can watch it and give us feedback, helping us to learn what we've done wrong and what needs to be done to make the shots better.

We also filmed some practice footage of the doll's feet moving in light underneath a door; this was easy to film as I could control the doll's movements whilst Sam filmed and after watching the footage back, it looked good and we were happy with it but we know it could be better and the shots will be uploaded with the footage of the stairs scene so that they can be reviewed and analysed, giving Sam and I feedback to make the shots better.

Sam and I are also planning to film on Saturday, by then we will have gained feedback and we will be able to use it to improve on what we've already filmed. We will film the shots that we've already filmed before but also film some scenes that we haven't yet filmed. We are doing the filming in my house although we're setting the scene in a different house which is big and Victorian, making the setting scarier and more suitable for the slasher genre.