#72 Production: Behind the Scenes Pt.1

    Hey everyone, today I will be talking about what went down behind the camera of shooting The Hollow, my role was being the co-detective and I wore a nice black shirt, black dress pants, and dress shoes AKA flats (that really hurt my feet good god it was bad). We shoot these two trailers at our teammates house Madison since she has a big house and gives off the scary vide because most scary movies are shot in like a nice house in the suburban. JUST SAYING!

    Now for the beginning scene we did the discovery of the mask which was my character finding the mask of The Hollow man (Ethan) in Maddie's garage with the lights off to give it a scary tone to it all. This scene took sooo many times to film because of trubble with the camera focusing and the lights would always turn off and on like crazy you have no clue, it was two the point we need all three of use including the extra (seb) to help out. This scene was hectic to film, but I fell in love with the final product.

    Next was the caution‑tape scene. Ethan and I covered the door upstairs in Madison’s house with tape and filmed it to make it feel like a real investigation like the movie "The Conjuring (2013)" when they filmed the scene of the Warrens investigate a home that becomes partially taped off as the case escalates. The looked that we were going for was that we watched to catch the audience's attention to the door as if a hidden clue was behind it kind of like a cliffhanger.

    One more thing I wanted to add was the photo Maddie printed out in her house with her printer, we were talking that we need more photos for when she opened up the files because the game came with photos of suspects we don't even have. Maddie started looking at pictures of burning houses and she gave me a couple of options, and I told her the one of the houses looks the best because we are filming in the house so that's the best option we could've ever done.

    The following scene that we filled was this number on the wrist “006” shot. We shot this in the living room area with our extra/ second masked man of the hollow to lay on the ground and we put on his wrist the numbers 006 like Eleven on the show called "Stranger things". This was a great idea because it will give audience a crazy mystery because it looks as if a body has been found so it gives a creepy vibe like what the heck just happen you know.

    After that, we got this shot of Ethan all the way at the end of the hallway. He kept his head down and then lifted it super slow, just to give that creepy “okay… why is he looking at me like that” vibe. We filmed it in that tiny walkway at Madison’s house, so the whole thing automatically looked dark and empty. It honestly feels like the moment where he finally shows up for real, like his first actual reveal.

    Now to the sidewalk symbol shot where Ethan gave an idea to make a symbol like a demonic symbol which was great butttttt. We did not any chalk whatsoever and that made us all fall into destress but the I was like "I mean we can just find a stone or rock outside, and it will work like chalk" and that's exactly what we did.

    The last shot was of me looking around for clues in Maddie's garage with the flashlight in the dark, but little did my character know that The Hollow man was right behind me watching me the whole time. This scene was also to leave the audience with a guess to want to watch more and see what ends up happening because the audience can see him behind me, but I cannot.