Shooting our Thriller Opening.

On the day of shooting our thriller, we all agreed to meet at a reasonable time of 11.00am at an easy place so we could get some practice shots in before filming the actual thing. It also gave us time to walk to our location. As we all live pretty near each other no one had any trouble in getting to the location in time.

Before we left we made sure we had all the camera equipment, props and costumes that we needed as we wouldn't have time to walk back. When we arrived at the location we had a look around and started discussing where the camera would be best placed and how much space was needed for our acting. We also had to make sure we didn't break the 180' rule in filming. As we wanted our thriller to be filmed in dark we had plenty of time to run through the position of the camera, the acting roles making sure we got everything perfect, ready for the real thing. Before we started filming i we made little dents in the ground, this showed me and Hayley were the cameras would be standing each time.

This also gave us a rough idea in how long it would take the film, making sure we had extra footage for backup. As we had our story board with us, we had the clear shots in which we needed to use and how they would look on camera. We also used our shooting script which gave us guidance through filming. With extra time we had it gave us the chance to change shots, or add shots as we could see how effective they would look. We took some pictures to show the location and how the actors looked through filming.

These pictures are our practice shots just to show where the killer could stand. It also gave us a chance to show how he could stand and how he appears to the audience. We decided to take these images in the daylight so we had a better look at what the audience would be seeing.

These shots were took while filming, just to show how the darkness makes the film more scary and a thriller genre. The white mask really shows up in the dark when close up. The only problem  is in the first picture, the mask could be easily missed as he only pops out for a second. We tried to resolve this problem by zooming in and editing the picture but it didn't really make much difference. But we thought this made it better because it made to audience think twice about whether they saw something or not. 

When Jack stood in the corner of the abandoned farm, i thought it provided more tension for the film, and having just the right amount of light which made the mask stand out.