Filming Blog: The Titles

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Hello Cambridge! Today, we went back to the bookstore to finish the recording process. To keep up consistency, Amelie was wearing the exact same things that she had sworn the other day when we had first recorded. The main things that we had to record were the titles and credits. We were planning on having them on pieces of paper as the "homework" that Amelie would be doing, and we would have the handwriting on them get worse and worse as the titles progressed. To make it easier to keep track of what we needed to record, I wrote down the order that the titles had to be in and checked them off as we went along. We quickly decided that just having all of the titles on paper would get old and boring quickly. We had a couple of other ideas on how to put the titles on screen, namely having one of the names on a pencil and another on a book. We decided to record those a different time to see if we were good enough at editing to figure it out. After a few relatively normal title cards, we decided to spice it up a little bit, although the only change was that the handwriting that had been getting worse steadily became awful and scratchy.

    We took a short break between shooting titles to let Amelie change her makeup to look sickly. When she was done, she looked like she had the flu, and she was doing the facial expressions to match, overall making the video much creepier than it had been, which is what we were looking for. We decided to shoot her rocking back and forth in the fetal position to splice in between scenes before getting a move on the rest of the titles. We started to use eye drops that we had brought to simulate tears, at first to make it seem like Amelie was crying after writing one of the titles. We then started dropping them on the pages of the notebook to make it seem like she was crying. This part took a very long time, as we couldn't make the drops look realistic enough. They looked like someone was dropping eye drops onto the paper instead of someone crying, and the time lost was compounded by the fact that Amelie had to rewrite the title every time we wanted to do another take. We also used the teardrops to make her makeup run to make her seem even more unhinged. Finally, we had her write the most unhinged song lyrics in a very scratchy handwriting surrounding the words help me, again with tear drops falling as she finished writing. This is one of my favorite scenes we recorded, just because of how similar it seems to a real horror movie. We only have a couple more things to do before editing, and I can't wait!

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