Lighting

My initial idea was to film in the late afternoon, so that the lighting will be low key and dark. However, when I came to film, the lack of light meant that the picture quality wasn't great, as it would not focus and therefore produced a blurry image.

I knew that I wanted to produce a darker image to add to the horror of the film, firstly because it is very conventional to do so, but also because when carrying out previous research, I looked at a horror film that was set in the daytime, which consequently lacked in horror.

I tried filming on more bleak days closer to dusk but not quite dusk, yet this still didn't produce the sharp picture I was hoping for. I then decided to see if I could edit the film by changing the colour of it and play around with the brightness and other various tools the program offered.

After trying out various different combinations, I found that by using shadow/highlighting and tint, it produced the image I was looking for and therefore meant that I could film in day light; meaning that I could get a sharp, focused image and at the same time edit it to make it looker darker.