#34 Discarded Pool Phone Call — Production

 This is the phone call in the drowning scene for the pool. We couldn’t make it long and towards the end of the call, Leanette had to be silent because that was where she had to die. The phone call was too long several times so we had to keep redoing it. The phone call is where the film introduces the actual main character of the rest of the movie that the film opening is connected to, Chloe.

First, as said in the video, they lacked urgency. They talked slow and without emotion. Also, they didn’t even have a script that was set in stone yet, practically free-styling it. Also, it was 58 seconds. Almost a whole minute. You can also hear Victoria in the background, so there’s an echo. Victoria was calling Leanette through Leanette’s phone and Leanette was picking up through my phone because of my ringtone (which we thought kinda sounded like an old phone, since in the pool scene, the phone is old), I was recording with Victoria’s phone. We also had to keep doing retakes because Leanette kept forgetting to put the phone on speaker. 

This one was long, 58 seconds, but some of it had to be cut out because it wasn’t Torsten of what I was going to use for editing. I still scrapped it though because even though it had to be cut, it was still too long and didn’t match with the pool scene itself. To get rid of Victoria’s echo in the back, she went back inside and went to the second floor for some reason. The phone call was free styled again, but we knew there had to be a portion where only Chloe would be talking where Britney would be drowning; it had to feel like an actual conversation after all.