Thriller Opening Rough Cut and Thriller Shooting Experience

This is our rough cut for our thriller opening

Thriller Shooting experience

We arranged the date and location for our thriller that our group and our actors could attend, making sure we were organised so we could get straight into filming as soon as we were there.

During our filming, we used two cameras. One we used mainly for handheld capturing, and the other we put on a tripod for more steady framing of shots. This worked well as we needed to take less shots of one piece of action, and the continuity was spot on as it was filmed together.

Annabelle who was playing the protagonist started to get cold halfway through us filming her section where she is taped up on the floor, so we didn’t get as much footage as we would have hoped to. We overcame this problem, however, later on in the editing process by using closeups within the same shot to extend the action.

We came across the problem of clutter within the garage, but having a look at it we felt that it added to the mise en scene of a disused garage where the antagonist hides away.

During our filming, we thought of a wider range of camera angles to use than originally in our story board, such as the point of view shot of the protagonist looking down on the desk, which I achieved by standing on a chair and keeping the camera at a level angle directly above the able, also creating the effect of a close, ariel view.

Overall, our filming experince was successful, with no major problems to overcome, due to planning in advance and organisation.

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~ by joannehooton on March 15, 2010.