Construction: Eve's bedroom blog scene

We started shooting the first bedroom scene with Lydia O'Reilly as Eve and Chloe and I as co-directors and editors.

To make sure we were able to capture the audiences attention, we derived from filming eve doing her daily stuff to her filming her blog with Elizabeth in the background.  This only elevated the level of suspense and tension as the doll sat quite realistically on the bottom right frame  of the camera.

When it came to sound effects, we felt like using  silence was the best option when it came to recording the blog scene as it created even greater tensions and a more spine chilling atmosphere as a diegetic sound. We also create a sombre mise-en-scene as we played with the lighting-we turned the lights of and covered the window with the curtains so a decent amount of natural light would be used.

One problem we encountered was a sound recording issues when filming one of our scenes as our initial ideas was for Eve to wear a weird combination of clothes which included a raincoat. The problem when we were recording is that the sound of Lydia's

(Eve) movements were enhanced by the microphone which left an annoying and constant burden when trying to hear her speak and engage with Elizabeth. We had an outfit changed and resumed to recording using our phones on the app: voice recorder.

The scene was later edited by me. For the editing of this scene, I had to align the clips in chronological order and make sure the lighting was reflecting the atmosphere we were trying to project by adding a slight filter which would make the room feel colder and obscurer.  I proceeded to adding diegetic sounds of Eve's speaking into the camera for her blog as she is expressing her direct feelings about her current situation.

When filming the extract of eve filming herself on the blog, we had to position the camera infront of her and record using a tripod  just like a real blog would. This enhanced the realistic features of the blog and creates a different connection with the audience as she seems to be addressing them directly. We can almost say she is breaking the fourth wall as they looks straight in and talks directly in front as if she has got an audience watching her.


The use of the prop Elizabeth the doll, shows her attachment to her as she is featured numerous times through the film.  She adds tension as typical doll connotations are that they are creepy and give off an obscure feeling.

When looking at the film on a whole we felt one element was missing. We thought that the transition between clips, seemed rather basic therefore we decided to add a green screen to our scene and use a recording camera's frame to portray that idea. The typical REC sign helped illustrate this very well as it is a universally recognisable sign.

This really helped show the difference between Eve's blog moments and Eve's usual routine. 

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