Saturday, 12 January 2013

Winter Wonderland Filming Complete


Filming at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park was really successful and we managed to get loads of really useful and exciting shots that we will definitely be able to use in our trailer. We were able to go into a fun house, which we had hoped we would be able to do, and in there we were able to take our time getting lots of different shots. Once there we saw lots of opportunities for shots we hadn't particularly planned ahead for but that looked really good, including a shot where the clown is standing over a wind machine so that the costume is blowing in the wind and looking really creepy, whilst the public walked around, to emphasize the clown causing a disturbance to the public and being let loose on people. We also went on a ghost train, which wasn't as successful in terms of filming as it was very dark and the camera therefore didn't pick up much. However, we did get shots of the strobe lighting in the ghost train ride and the sounds of screaming which may be useful in the editing stage of the trailer as a non-diegetic sound added on top of footage.  Within the fun house was a rotating tunnel which looked amazing in shots and things like a mirror maze etc, where we were able to get loads of really interesting shots that look really unique and arty, to go with the idea of having our trailer being for an art house/independent film.

Some stills from some of the footage we shot at Winter Wonderland: