Thriller Shooting Experience

Preperation: When preparing to film our thriller we had to firstly discuss what we were going to where, where we were going to film the location of getting ready together, and when we could actually film it together.

We decided to film at my house and we sorted out the days when we were all free and got straight to filming the scene!

We did make the mistake of not writing a script together which affected our performance as sometimes we overlapped eachother as we spoke and did not know what to say. We had to film the ‘getting ready scene’ again because of this mistake as we felt it didnt quite flow as easily as it should. We used our initiative and wrote a script for the second time. This improved our performance dramatically as we were stronger in our vocals and timing of speech.

Outfits: We all decided to wear dresses as this is what most girls wear when going on a night out with her other girlfriends. We didn’t wear many accessories as sometimes if too many bangles are worn they can make clashing noises which would be overheard by the camerarecorder and disrupt our script. For the second time that we filmed this scene we all chose to wear different outfits as last time when we were filming the ‘graveyard scene’ it was really cold and we felt rushed to shoot the scene as we were so cold! It is seen in the ‘getting ready’ scene that I grab a coat.

Filming: Because our first draft of the ‘getting ready’ scene was too long, we decided not to film ourselves getting ready infront of the mirror,(putting on our makeup), for that long as it was just a waste of video time and if we needed more time for our film this time then we would use more video from the ‘grave yard’. We will also write a script for the ‘grave yard’ scene as this will make it flow easily.

We had numerous different cameramen on the first day of filming. These were: Rob Strover, Faith Adamson, Tim Rogers and myself.  Seeing as Rob was not in the first scene, he filmed us at the opening of the graveyard scene lying on the floor.  This then changes to Faith’s own perspective which she then filmed as her own point of view.  Most of the shots when she is being filmed or the camera is over my shoulder are being filmed by myself.  The flashback of the hobo is filmed by Tim Rogers.

By using these different people to film, it produces different camera angles and a variety of contrasting shots.  On our first day of shooting, we filmed at St. Andrews Church in Hornchurch on a Sunday morning.  We found this setting good, as it was quiet and far from busy.  The only problem with this was that because it was a Sunday morning, there were a few people from the church who were walking where we were filming, also the church has a bell that rings at a certain time,  so we had to avoid these both.  We could have either done it on a different day or made it a little bit later.

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