After an unsuccessful first day of filming we had to somehow find a new location for our thriller. We all had different ideas on where we could have our new location, we had the thought of going to a place called Regents House, which was used by a media group in the year previously. As this location was situated in Ongar, two members of our group (Dave and Taylor) went to th
e location to look if it was suitable for out filming. From their feedback we found out that the location itself wasn't practical because of the room that we was thinking of filming was a little bit to messed up, for example the walls were asbestos, which was a serious health risk to us if we did decide to film there.
On the day of the filming, we arrived at the location at around 5:00pm, this left us a short space to film in because of the change in sunlight at this time changed very quickly, and altogether we found that it changed more quickly then we first anticipated. We wanted to keep the same camera shots that we was previously going to use at the first location because this would keep things simple and would help us speed up the filming stages so hopefully we could of been finished before the lightning became to dark which would of ruined the continuity editing. The first hours worth of filming went great as all of our shots went too plan. One of the favourite shots that came together was the pan around the main character from one side to the other. We done this shot by holding the camera steady and walking around the character, at the time we didn't think that it would work, but when editing we found that it worked very well. Throughout the few hours of filming, we decided to try a few extra shots which were not initially on the storyboard, we done this because we thought that instead of finding that the shot we originally planned wasn't great when editing we could have a backup shot from a different angle which we could use instead. A problem that occured was when we tried a few of our panning shots we noticed when watching it back that it wasn't as smooth as we hoped to be on some of the shots, also when we did pan it made a noise which at the time we thought could ruin the shots. A good thing that went well was the mise en scene of the messed up location that we used, and also the clothes that our main character played by Taylor was wearing, this helped establish that our film was based around a thriller. Also another thing that went well was the fact that in the location we had used, there was a mirror on the wall. We used this to our advantage and created a new shot of the character played by Brad to reflect in the mirror, this created a good effect of Brads character creating mystery which is the idea we was looking for but as we got near the end of finishing our shots, we noticed when looking back on the camera's tape, that the lightning had changed a lot without us realising. At the time we decided to carry on filming because we didn't like the idea of coming back another day and shooting at least half the film again. So we carried on until the darkness had got so dark we realised it was inevitable that we would have to sort out another date to finish it. This was proven the next day when we looked back at the difference from the start of the filming towards the end so we decided that we would go back the day after during the day which would allow us to have plenty of time to film.
e location to look if it was suitable for out filming. From their feedback we found out that the location itself wasn't practical because of the room that we was thinking of filming was a little bit to messed up, for example the walls were asbestos, which was a serious health risk to us if we did decide to film there.At this point we had very little idea's on where about's we could film. When we done some research we had a spot of luck finding out that one of our friends owns a second house which isn't being used because of water damage. We decided that it would be a very good idea if we went to look at the location during one of our media lessons because the location was very close to the school and also our friend said that because of the water damage, a lot of the walls and floor looked damaged and messed up which ironically was perfect for us as this was the type of effect we was looking for. When we arrived at the house, we went inside to find that our friend was right, the location seemed like a suitable solution to the problems that we had faced previously. We found out even better news when went into the garden, we discovered that he owns a medium sized outhouse, which when we looked inside was perfect and even better then the location that we was going to use previously. So we decided to use this for the location for our 2 minute thriller.
On the day of the filming, we arrived at the location at around 5:00pm, this left us a short space to film in because of the change in sunlight at this time changed very quickly, and altogether we found that it changed more quickly then we first anticipated. We wanted to keep the same camera shots that we was previously going to use at the first location because this would keep things simple and would help us speed up the filming stages so hopefully we could of been finished before the lightning became to dark which would of ruined the continuity editing. The first hours worth of filming went great as all of our shots went too plan. One of the favourite shots that came together was the pan around the main character from one side to the other. We done this shot by holding the camera steady and walking around the character, at the time we didn't think that it would work, but when editing we found that it worked very well. Throughout the few hours of filming, we decided to try a few extra shots which were not initially on the storyboard, we done this because we thought that instead of finding that the shot we originally planned wasn't great when editing we could have a backup shot from a different angle which we could use instead. A problem that occured was when we tried a few of our panning shots we noticed when watching it back that it wasn't as smooth as we hoped to be on some of the shots, also when we did pan it made a noise which at the time we thought could ruin the shots. A good thing that went well was the mise en scene of the messed up location that we used, and also the clothes that our main character played by Taylor was wearing, this helped establish that our film was based around a thriller. Also another thing that went well was the fact that in the location we had used, there was a mirror on the wall. We used this to our advantage and created a new shot of the character played by Brad to reflect in the mirror, this created a good effect of Brads character creating mystery which is the idea we was looking for but as we got near the end of finishing our shots, we noticed when looking back on the camera's tape, that the lightning had changed a lot without us realising. At the time we decided to carry on filming because we didn't like the idea of coming back another day and shooting at least half the film again. So we carried on until the darkness had got so dark we realised it was inevitable that we would have to sort out another date to finish it. This was proven the next day when we looked back at the difference from the start of the filming towards the end so we decided that we would go back the day after during the day which would allow us to have plenty of time to film. Tom Winn
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