The First Day of Filming

Day 1 of Filming

Today we filmed the first part to our Thriller. We met up at my house as it was the ideal location for my group to meet as no one had to really travel far. It was very exciting to be able to get straight in to making our thriller. The first scene we did was just on my road and this is the scene where Sarah drops her phone. We did this scene three or four times because we wanted to get a variety of shots. We had to film quickly because we met up around 5:30pm and it was getting rapidly dark. As Sarah walked down the road we took lots of different shots and angles such as a P.O.V but we decided not to use it because the audience would not be able to see that Sarah drpped the phone. We also took a shot of the camera that was directly behind her, in front of her and above her so that the camera was looking down. Perhaps if we had used the shot of the camera looking down on her, it might have been more effective because when the camera is looking down on someone, it puts them in a position of inferiority and this could perhaps foreshadow that something bas might happn to her. After shooting this scene numerous times till we got it nearly to perfection we then progressed to my scene where I am the Stalker and I will be picking up Sarah's phone that she dropped. For this scene I was not sure what type of shot we could use for this scene. I was rather reluctant to use the same shots that we used for Sarah's scene where she drops the phone but having taken many differents shots and angles, I thought that that was the only appropriate shot I could have used. However having reflected and watched the film many times, I can see that a shot from behind me wouild have worked really well. By not seeing my face when I pick up Sarah's phone it creates a sense of ambiguity and a mysterious feel to the film. Then we had finished the scene and moved on into the scenes inside the house. The first scene in the house was the one where I called Sarah and offered for her to pick up her phone from my house. These scenes where done using the close shot. When we did this scene of our conversation, a problem occured. I said to Sarah 'meet me at oxlow lane in like 20 minutes' however after doing that scene Sarah had to go home because it was getting late. Our group did not realise that it was late so when I told her to meet me in 20 minutes we did not change this so when it came to editing the film on Final Cut Express we had to somehow change this and this is how we made the voice over.