Practicing shooting a Horror scene

The task was to film a sequence of 8 shots which were revolved around the subject of 'doors' however this had to be something that would preferably fit into a horror sequence. Whilst filming we had to also focus of lighting, framing, pace, shot type, camera angle and length We chose to film our sequence of 8 shots in the bottom of the staircase in school. We chose this location especially because the lighting is very low and it seems dark and eerie which is perfect for a horror scene. 

We used a Canon Legryder video camera.

The scenes we shot were all in the same place, same person, and same actions. However, we changed the angle, shot type, framing and camera movement. 

This video contains the original shots we did, even the faulty ones which went wrong and we  had to re-take. 

We included a close up of his feet in the shot, to create suspense and build tension as it is a mystery whose feet they are. We also did a shot from a high angle to convey significance of the mystery male with his hood up. We shot a long shot of him walking towards the door; this acts as a form of establishing shot of the setting and where the actor is heading for. All the shots we prepared were significant and convey some kind of horror meaning. We didn't cut the shot until the door had closed because when the door closed it made a loud banging noise which could potentially startle the audience and break the eerie silence 

When we had finished shooting our 8 shots, we moved on to the editing process. We edited our sequence in 'Adobe Premier PRO CS3' which allowed us to explore a range of techniques.

Here are some screen Grabs of the actual process and me editing and putting together a proper sequence. 

Whilst playing the whole recording of 'doors' we I would press the key 'I' which symbolized 'in' which allowed me to mark where I wanted it to be cut from and 'O' which symbolized 'Out' which allowed me to mark where i wanted to cut the video out. When this was cut, we would drag it down to the bottom which was a frame to create the actual sequence.

These were the cuts which  I Had selected from the original sequence to create the actual sequence of doors which would be in sync.

This is the final product of the edited version.