Final Draft

Production Logo

Camilla Poster

 We made this poster with the picture of the possessed daughter looking straight towards the camera, this shows to the audience what the short film is roughly about but doesn't give away too much. We chose this as our final poster.

 We also took a picture of the priest about to walk up to the house, this is dull and doesn't show a lot, but is similar to the original exorcist poster, where theres the priest with the street light on him, just in front of the house.

  

This is our third poster idea, we like this as it shows a lot with the knife in the foreground and the priest with Mary in the background, we didn't choose this as our actual poster as it's hard for the audience to see what this is about.

When creating each of the posters we followed a simple layout:

- Title

- Picture

- Tag line

- Release date

- Actors

- Credits

- Production logo

For the pictures we added a inner shadow so it blended into the background. The release date & actors we added a sight outer glow so they would standout to whoever is viewing it. At the bottom of the poster for the credits we used the text that they use in most film posters to make it look profesional. We also added out production logo in the bottom right corner. The picture were edited in Adobe Lightroom and the poster was made in Adobe Photoshop.

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Photos on Set

Seb placing the lights in front of the house. We had to move the lights around to get the most effective use of the light.

Here we put the camera on a small skateboard to capture a shot of the priest as he is walking towards the door.

Here is how we shot the 'taxi' pulling up at the house.

Filming Father Anderson freeing Mary from the evil spirit Camilla.

Adding the fake blood to the knife.

Shooting Father Andersons death.

Adding the blood to Father Anderson's neck.

Filming Father Anderson on the flood dead.

Shooting a shot of the house across the street.

The Final Cast

Name: Aaron Lee

Character: Father Anderson (The Priest)

Description: Aaron was our only cast member that we chose from our auditions. After watching him perform, we were blown away by the passion and enthusiasm in his voice and he was a certainty for the role of the priest. We believed he would do really well but needed him to look older for the part of the priest so we asked him to grow his facial hair.

Name: Hannah Fewings

Character: Mary/Camilla (The Possessed Daughter)

Description: Unfortunately we did not get many female actresses audition however our media teacher knew someone who had experience in acting and could play the part. After watching some of her previous videos, we decided she would be great for the role.

Name: Ruthie Rosenthal 

Character: Jenna (The Mother)

Description: Again, due to not getting many female actresses at our audition, we were struggling to find someone but fortunately our media teacher knew someone who runs a theatre company and we decided to use her due to all the experience of acting she had.

Name: Philip Lee

Character: Ian (The Step-Brother)

Description: Unfortunately on the last day of filming, our original actor playing Ian told us that he broke his ankle so we had to find someone else to take his place. Fortunately we managed to get Philip to get his place who was suggested by Aaron his brother. Never the less, Philip was great at acting and was good at capturing different emotions through out our film.

Costume and Props

Name: Philip Lee

Character: Ian (The Step Brother)

Costume: Ian's costume is of him wearing a t-shirt and jeans, in order for him to look like a stereotypical boy.
Props: Ian gets given a flask of holy water by Father Anderson.

Name: Ruthie Rosenthal

Character: Jenna (The Mother)

Costume: Ruthie's costume is of her wearing a casual black top and leggings in order for her to look like a stereotypical mother. The reason why we chose her to wear the colour black was so that it added to the scary atmosphere of the film and the colour black represents death.
Props: We gave her a blood soaked knife for when she is possessed. 

Name: Hannah Fewings

Character: Mary/Camilla (The possessed daughter)

Costume: Hannah's costume is of her wearing pajamas, so that it would look she has been possessed for a few days and left on her bed tied up.
Props: Black wig to give Hannah and more scary looking hair style.

Name: Aaron Lee

Character: Father Anderson (The Priest)

Costume: Aaron's costume is of him wearing a black shirt, trousers and coat, with a white colour so that he would look like a real stereotypical priest.
Props: We also gave him a bible along with a flask of holy water to give to Ian. Along with that he also had some rosary beads.  

First Draft

On the final day of filming we had to re-shoot our whole film because one of our actors had broken his ankle. Fortunately Aaron's brother Philip was willing to take his place and we changed Ian from being Mary's step father to her step brother because of Philip’s age. We also had to offer Philip payment but this was a small price to pay in order for us to complete our film. Below shows our first draft of our film Camilla. 

Opening Sequence (Trying Out Different Ideas)

We were planning to have a shot of the camera slowly coming towards the graveyard of a church with a shaky effect and showing glimpses of graves setting the scene for the film. We wanted this in black and white so that it would look scary and mysterious for our audience. In the end we decided to cut this out as it would go over our five minute mark. Below shows the footage of the edit and some pictures showing how we filmed it using the camera.

Make Up for Aaron's Death (The Priest)

First we had to stick the scar we had bought onto Aaron's neck by using Laytex.

We then added foundation on the scar so that it would blend in with Aaron's neck.

To cover the patch around the scar we also had to apply fake blood all around it so it would look real.

Lastly we applied a more runny type of blood created by maple syrup and red dye to give the effect that the blood is pouring out from Aaron's neck like it would if someone had really slit his neck. The only problem was that the blood would stain the carpet flooring, so we found an old rug that would match the carpet colour so that it wouldn't look out of place and we wouldn't ruin the carpet flooring.

Hannah's Make Up (Mary/Camilla)

In order to make our film look as scary as possible for our audience watching we had to make sure the make up we applied on our characters looked believable and realistic. After getting the right equipment, a layer of laytex so we could get a more wrinkly look to Hannah’s face and allow the wax being later applied to stick better. Next three strips of wax were rolled into sausage like shapes then placed on Hannah's face. The edges of the wax had to be rubbed into the skin so that the scars would be able to blend in with the whole face. After small slits in the wax were added where the fake blood would be applied, so the audience can easily tell they were scars/cuts. Later white cream was mixed with some powdered foundation in order for the face not to look pale. While applying the make up we had to be careful to not get too much make up on the scars, otherwise there was a high chance they could fall off. After covering the whole face and neck with the cream make up, it was turn for the eye shadow. In order to get a good effect black and a hint of purple eye shadow were mixed to make it look like she has been possessed. Next a light black eye shadow was applied to show her cheek bones. An even more fainter shade of black was added to parts of her face so it looked like she hadn't washed her face. Finally, Hannah wore a bald cap so that the wig could be placed on her head. 

Make Up Tutorial Video

For the make of the possessed daughter to look as scary and realistic as possible, we found a video on youtube that gave us a complete tutorial in how to do this and below shows the video of this and also the pictures of different products we needed to do the make up.

Make Up List:

 Black Eye Liner

Fake Blood

 Fake Scar Kit

 Liquid Latex

 Scar Wax

White Foundation

White Make Up Powder

Location Shots

 

For our film to be successful, we needed a scary, believable location where an exorcism could take place. We decided to use Arjun's house as it is on the Corner of a road making it look that its on its own, followed by some creepy looking bushes on the corner to create a scary atmosphere for our audience watching.

 

The drive way, gave us a great idea to reveal the priest slowly and not show his face using close ups of his feet and hand knocking on the door. Doing this helped emphasise to the audience the great importance of the character and also to keep the audience intrigued.

This location is where Jenna is crying being comforted by her step son Ian and also where Ian has a short conversation with the priest before they both heads up stairs.

For shooting the scene where Ian and the priest walk up stairs we had to move the photo at the top as it was a religious picture and would get in the way of a few different shots. This scene allowed us to take advantage of both high and low angle shots keeping the film more interesting for the audience watching.

This is where we filmed the exorcism of Mary, as you can see we had to make massive changes to Arjun’s room to make it look as if it was an 18 year old girl’s room, so we had to change the bed sheets as a girl wouldn’t have blue colour sheets.  We also had to be careful in not getting the toy cupboard in the shots of our film and also clear the remaining toys on the floor.