Shooting Practice: Horror Scene Recreation

This post contains a mini project that helped us learn how to shoot a cinematic scene. We did this as a group

Our teacher told us to find a scene from a movie in our genre to recreate. Our genre is horror, we chose Jennifer's Body (2009)

Storyboard:

Our replica:

Mise en scene 
Problem: We couldn't control the lighting as we were filming outside the classroom. The lighting for a horror movie especially for this one requires mostly low key lighting and since it was sunny today we didn't have access to that. 
Solution: Our teammates Max and Kenneth decided to adjust the video's lighting using the video editing apps to get the same feel as the clip from the movie. 
Next time: We will find a place with artificial lighting so we can easily control the lighting without much help from the video editing app to give it a more natural look instead of artificially increasing something. However, if this is not possible we will use the solution mentioned previously. 

Problem: In the first scene an actress looked at the camera. It's a subtle detail but our goal is so it would match perfectly to the scene we are trying to recreate. 
Solution: Our team tried to edit the video. However they couldn't fully fix that scene so we didn't find the right solution at that time. 
Next time:  we will rehearse and practice many times before we actually film the scenes. If not we can do multiple takes at the time and carefully look at the footage before deciding on another take. However, if all these repercussions fail then we can figure out how to edit it out. 

Sound 
Problem: We didn't have any problems with the sound as we use audio from the original clip which is very clear. 
Next time: I think we will continue doing this and for our upcoming project we will pre record the audio for the dialogue so we can get a clear sound. I also learned it's best not to record audio while we are recording a scene 

Behind-the-scenes: 

Reflection: It took several takes to get a good shot. We had problems remembering the script, actions, and camera angles. However we got the hang of it and got some decent shots.