Shooting the Library Scene

After planning the storyboard of the library scene and getting permission from the librarians to allow us to film, quietly, we started shooting with Dan supervising and helping us too.

We had decided that the possessed girl would go to the library to do research on possession. Our first shot was a mid shot of the girl (Susan) walking towards the books. We then get a match cut from a high angle of her arriving to the book shelf. The shot is followed by an over the shoulder, mid shot of her pulling out a dictionary from the ‘Mental Processes’ shelf. The shot continues with a low angle, mid shot from behind a plant which covers her face of the girl sitting on the floor in a corner. We then capture a zoom in, into her looking up the definition of ‘Possession Trance.’ This helps to give a hint to the audience of what the film may be about.

After two hours of filming we managed to get the right shots and angles with the help of the storyboard, Dan and co-operation from the team members.