First Day of Filming - House Scene

We all met up in school and made our way to the house in Hutton Mount that we had chosen prior to the filming to shoot as much of the scene as possible. Once we arrived at the house, the girls gave us a quick tour of the house and checked we agreed with the room they thought was most suitable and so we decided to go for the biggest upstairs room.

The first scene we decided to shoot 'clean' Sophie tied to a chair with Alex standing next to her, holding a knife and the book. The first take was good, but we decided to get another one just incase. This take was fairly short, only around 5 seconds long.  This is the scene before she gets killed. We had to be careful when we tied Sophie to the chair to avoid doing it too tight. This was hard as when it was loose it didn't look realistic.

After this, we chose to do the scene after Sophie being killed and this required lots and lots of fake blood. We ran into a problem with one tube of our fake blood very quickly as when we smothered Sophie's hands in it to make the handprints on the wall, we discovered that it wouldn't wash off. We then tried putting fake blood on the dress and saw that it went straight through luckily this was the second bottle of fake blood which didn't stain Sophie at all. A big risk in this part of the film was creating the cut across the neck. We put fake blood across a blunt piece of metal and lightly ran it across her neck to make it look more thin and realistic.

While shooting this scene we had to decide what things to incorporate and what things to leave out and we decided to write 'Succubus' on the wall in blood so that it was visible when Sophie picked up the knife.

After this we decided to film the screams and we did this by putting my hand across the camera so that it was dark and having Natalie and Sophie screaming at different times so that it was indicated that 2 different people had been killed.

Overall, the first day filming went really well and without any major hiccups.

By Ben Marshall