Filming

After much planning and story boarding our group finally filmed our thriller opening on Saturday the 8th of November, we spent around 2 hours trying to capture everything . After deciding that we want to create our thriller opening to be in black and white with the only colour showing being red, we knew that this would come from the editing process, but we needed to take extra care not to include anything red so that it would not show up and ruin the shot when we filter out all of the colour apart from red. This was quite a challenge and meant that we tried to be extra careful/ aware of the entire shot, not just the action we intended to film, but the background also. 


What went well

On the day we felt that certain elements of the filming process went really well. For example, we felt that our footage closely resembles the way that we envisaged it to and we followed the story board closely. We also felt that we communicated the theme/ era of our thriller opening effectively through the costumes and props that we used making it appear, in our minds to resemble the 1930/40s quite closely. Equally, many of the actual shots that we attempted, the aerial shot in particular which we thought would not perhaps come out as well as the more basic close - ups worked well and we feel look exactly how we had hoped. We were especially pleased with the way that our main character looked, and the effective use of the contrasting umbrellas. 

Even better if

Although many things went well and we were overall very happy with our footage there could have been some improvements. For example, we had some problems finding male actors and as a result we felt that their costumes did not look as authentic, although we will edit out the school badge visable in the editing process. Moreover, within some of the shots certain objects are visable such as bags and coats that don't fit with our genre and therefore a few shots are not usable as a result, in this case we may need to re film some shots or film an extra shot instead. However, on the whole we were very pleased with how the filming went and are now moving on to the editing process! 


Consent Form

This image shows the form we gave every person who was in our thriller to sign, acknowledging their consent for them to be in the thriller opening and for it to be shown to external sources.