We left school at 9:30A.M. so that we could get as much day light as possible. We drove to Leapale carpark in Guilford which is where we decided we were going to film. We started the day by choosing which side of the carpark we were going to film, we decided in the end that we were going to use a side with a nice cityscape and a few hilly roads in the background as we thought it would give a better effect for the thriller. We then started to practice lines with the main actor, this is where we decided to give her a new line, we decided to make her look more mentally unstable we would give her a line totally unrepresentative line of what was happening in the scene, the line was ‘we leapt and we landed into the fresh fallen snow’ we thought that in the full movie there should be a flashback to the true meaning of this line and maybe it would be a line from a book that her mother read to her when she was a child. We practiced movements and filmed a couple of the shots of our main character as on our shoot there were also three other groups filming their thrillers, and our main male actor was in one of the other thrillers as well, this meant that we would have to film all the shots without him in it until he finished, so our female leads shots were filmed. We also did a few establishing shots, we were told that to do an effective establishing shot we should focus on something obscure and distinctive and for our genre conventions, something
out of the ordinary.
We left at midday for lunch, we went into the town, and got some food and then returned. After we went for lunch we practiced for another hour and then our actors were ready, we got all the cars into a sort of police blockade and put a fuzz light onto of one of the cars to make it look more police like, the police officers all had guns except for one that was using a phone to report what was happening. We filmed static for most of the shoot, however, towards the end we decided to try out some handheld shots of the police, these shots looked more action based and fitted in better with the genre conventions for the thriller genre. We were also given access to a makeup artist that did the maker up for the person that our female actor stabbed, it looked realistic and even though the actor was freezing cold, he did a good job of acting like he was bleeding out on the floor.
The shoot was successful as we got all of the shots we needed plus more, the actors were brilliant and even though there was a lot of waiting around, they didn’t complain and gave good performances and we think that the footage will turn out nicely. The other groups that were filming let us use some of their actors as police officers as well and they did a good job, and the close ups we got of them looked really nice. There was a few problems as well. For example, the day was freezing cold, and this caused the actors to shiver quite a lot in some of the shots, this meant that we had to retake quite a lot. However, overall the shoot day was a success, now all that is left to do is to edit it together, which we should be able to do sometime after half-term.
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