Filming

Filming

After choosing all our locations,actors and props we began to plan out what we will film first and how we could use a range of different shots to put into our film, to see which ones would look the best overall. Our short film is based on the genre of horror-thriller as we liked the ideas that we had for this genre.

Whilst filming we took photo's showing our group using the equipment as well as photos of the actors that we used in our short film, dressed up in their casual costumes and their horror type make-up.

Whilst filming we all took turns so that we would have an equal advantage for our group, we each shot different scenes and put in ideas to change the way something was shot if we needed to, we came up with a filming schedule so we each had the same amount of filming time, although we had to change some parts of our filming schedule when we realised that people who were meant to be filming were infact in the scene, so some peoples schedule times were swapped so it would be more convenient .

Mon 27^Th Feb – Filming first 8 scenes

· Katie M – Scenes 1 – 5

· Lauren G – Scenes 6 & 7

· Katie M – Scene 8

Wed 29^Th Feb – Filming scenes 9 – 15

· Charlotte T – Scenes 9 – 13

· Lauren G – Scene 14

· Charlotte T – Scene 15

Thurs 1^st March – Filming scenes 16 – 24

· Charlotte H – Scenes 16 – 20

· Katie M or Charlotte T – Scenes 21 – 23

· Charlotte H – 24

This is the filming schedule that we based our group filming on.

When filming and looking through some of the shots that we had already filmed and completed we came up with a few problems as we were filming over a 3 day period we realised that the lighting was different in some of the scenes, so we had to try and compromise that and either re-shoot some scenes or edit them to look the same as some of the other scenes. This took a lot of our time up and we had to rush our first edit, although we still got good marks in it we all thought that we could do much better for the second and Final edit, but instead of re-filming anything we editied the lighting and added in some forms and conventions that would appeal more to our audience, making our final edit for the opening sequence much better.

For some of the research we did before filming we wanted to see what our audience liked in a thriller film and we sent out a question to 30 people and 25 people replied with their answers and suggestions. Here are the answers from the 25 people in a tally chart style. We used this information throughout filming and preparation so that we could aim for our target audience to enjoy the opening sequence.

Questionnaire response

1) How old are you?

15-18 ||||||||||||

19-24 ||||

25-30 |||

31-40 ||||

Other ||

2) What is your favourite type of Thriller?

Horror-Thriller |||||||||

Psychological Thriller ||||

Sci-fi Thriller ||||||

Action/Adventure Thriller |||

Conspiracy Thriller |

Spy Thriller ||

Other        

3) What is your favourite part of a Thriller movie?

The Fear and tension generated ||||||

The Story ||||||

The Characters |||||||

The opening sequence ||||||

Other

4)What do you think is the most important part of a thriller?

The opening scene ||||||||

The Characters |||||||

The Story ||||||

The Ending ||||

Other

5) At which point in the introduction do you think the title of the film should be displayed?

Right at the start |||||||||

During the credits ||||||||

Right at the end   ||||||||

6) What in the opening scene would make you want to continue watching the film?

The majority of people that answered said that the tension and fear given throughout the opening sequence would want the to continue on watching the film and also some people said that the story and the characters that are introduced in the first two minutes are interesting and would make them want to see what happens throughout the rest of the film.