Before the shooting day Kit, Louis and I made sure that we planned who was bringing each of our mise-en-scene and also we made sure that all of our actors knew what they needed to bring/wear and what they will need to do.

We decided to split up our filming, so that we all did an equal amount of filming. Kit started off the filming day by shooting the entrance scene into the castle, while this was happening Louis and I decided to go around the castle to find the locations we needed for each of the shots.

After Kit had finished the entrance sequence I was next to film. The section I had to film was the first half the detectives looking around the castle and where they decided to split up. I also filmed some of the flashbacks of the girl running away from the doctor.

While I was filming some of these shots we decided that Louis was going to go off at the same time to film end sequence of our thriller, this is because at the start of the filming day we took our time doing the filming, so we chose to use are time more wisely and do multiple filming at the same time, to make sure that we got all of the shots we needed for our thriller.

Some highpoints from our filming day:

• We knew what we had to do to create all the shots we wanted
• We managed to stick to our shot list
• We managed to find all the locations needed for each shoot
• We managed to not break the 180 degree rule
• We managed to get all the props and costumes needed for each of the shots

Some lowpoints from our filming day:

• We had to rush some of our shots as we were running out of time
• We couldn’t get multiples of some of the shots as time was running out
• Some of the shots done in the room were bad quality as we had forgotten about the lighting so the shots were dark
• For the beginning of the filming we only had one camera so some of our team mates and actors were waiting around

Targets for the future:

• To be quicker with some of our shoots so that we didn’t need to rush some of the ending shots
• To shoot multiples of each shot
• To make sure that no one is waiting around and that everyone making the most of the time
• To make sure that the lighting is consider for each of the shots

Below is my Facebook profile which I had to create based upon someone I thought would be our target audience for our thriller film, this person fell into one of the core audiences, 16 to 24 year old men. I created this  to allow me to see what type of things our target audience is into to make sure  the thriller will appeal to them correctly. It will also come in handy when it comes to marketing and advertising my thriller, as it will make sure that it is aimed at the right sort of audience.

Below is my document for our groups risk assessment. This is a very useful document as it highlights all of the dangerous things that may occur when filming, and also what we could potentially do to avoid these risks.

Below is a link to our group production meeting agenda. This will be used to tell us which props and costumes everyone should be bringing in, which helps keeps us organised and splits up the jobs that need to be done.

Below is our group shot list to tell us in detail each shot that we will need to take and in which order. This will help us when it comes to filming day because we won’t have to be thinking off what shot we need to do next, and it will also make sure that we are including all the different shots that we need to.

Below is my groups storyboard for our thriller. In this storyboard you can see the different camera angles that we plan to use and also the timings we would like are shots to be. We have also written about the different dialogue,sound and camera movement we wish to incorporate into our thriller.

Click on the pictures below to see the storyboards in full.

Below is a link to our groups extended step outline document. This will help us when creating our storyboard and shot list for our opening thriller sequence, as it is a plan on how we would like our script to be, and also includes some of the different editing that we would like to include.

Click on the document below to see it in full.

Our task for this week was for everyone in our group to create a moodboard of our initially ideas for our thriller. The moodboards included, pictures of our filming location (Castle Cornet), different camera shots that could be used, costume ideas and prop ideas.

Click on each of pictures to see the moodboard in full.

My initially ideas for our thriller was to create a sequence where the antagonist was following/chasing after the protagonist, through the dark passageways of the castle and to have POV shots of this happening.

Kit’s idea was to have the castle set as an old abandoned hospital, and to have a doctor who wears a medieval mask so that it would hide his identity, chase a young female  and murder her using old surgical tools and a mixture of different types of medicine.

Louis’s idea was that there would be two detectives investigating a murder at the castle and while the detectives were examining the clues, there would be flashbacks, which lead up to reveal of the murderer, who turns out to be one of the detectives.

After looking at each of the different moodboards, we decided to try and merge some of the ideas from each of them as we thought that the hospital theme would be a good idea, as it would allow us to use a range of mise-en-scene. But then we also liked the idea of the two detectives investigating a crime, which then could lead to flashbacks of the crime which we could use a chase scene in.

In order to understand what different things needed to go into a thriller film, we had to identify different narrative codes that occur in most thrillers from previous students work. I did this to see which of the different narrative codes where successful and worked well, and which didn’t. In order to help me plan out my thriller.

Click on the picture to see it in full.

I created a video montage, to help practise my editing and filming skills in preparation for the making of our thrillers.

The first step I took in creating my montage was creating a storyboard. This is very useful as it will help me when it comes to filming my montage so I know exactly what shots I needed to film. Once that was done I filmed the shots I needed for my montage, which I then used Premier Pro to edit them together as well as adding in sound.

Click on the storyboard to see the document in full

Strengths 

• Jump cuts were used when the shots of Monica hit the pieces of paper onto her the shots of her wearing that particular item
• I made sure to film each shot more than once
• A pan was used when Monica was walking to the table
• The 180 degree rule wasn’t broken

Weaknesses

• Some of the shots I filmed at the end were rushed as I spent too long filming the first couple of shots
• Some of the shots I filmed couldn’t be used as in some cases I forgot to tell  Monica to put hand back in the right place and to use the same hand that it was in before putting the item of clothing on, as otherwise the jump shot wouldn’t work