Filming Blog: Going To The Abandoned House

    On Sunday I headed to Anyeska’s house at 2 p.m, to get prop shopping for the abandoned house done. I wanted to decorate the house with creepy fake bugs, webs, rocks, sand, and candles. I also wanted to buy some plates and a mirror. I went to the Dollar Store to save some money due to the fact that we would only be using these things for the film. Everything was about fourteen dollars. Luckily, the Dollar Store had everything we wanted including a creepy old looking mirror and doll. After two hours of shopping we picked up Britania and met up with Lesly at Anyeska’s house. I started on Lesly’s makeup again as I did the day before and it took about an hour. After I was done, we headed to the abandoned house. Starting with the plates we bought we smashed them on the floor. Then we proceeded to put the fake bugs and scattered them around. Anyeska and I used finger paint on our hands and put hand-prints on the walls. Sand was then used to make a star and candles were placed on each point. As if someone had done a seance of some kind. We broke the mirror and placed the creepy doll in the middle of the star.  After setting everything up we began filming. First, we filmed all the scenes from outside of the house. Then, the first few seconds of the film where the three girls are playing with the Frisbee. Along with the scene of Claire losing the Frisbee and the creepy entity appears for the very first time. A tracking shot is of us running away. We didn’t get to re-film the inside scenes after the three girls ran away, so that will be on Sunday. Below is a picture of all of the items we bought from the store besides the plates we broke.