Filming Day One: Monday 17th February

Over half term on Monday 17th February we did our first day of filming for our As Media Studies Thriller Opening. In the previous two terms we had filmed an a remake of the 'Reservoir Dogs' opening as well as a preliminary task where we were instructed to incorporate many shots we were unfamiliar with. Therefore this was not our first attempt at filming, but it was out first unsupervised and most important project. I arrived at Ryan's house at around 1300 and we began to set up for the work ahead. We had previously set up the lights therefore the arrangement out set was the first task.

Within our thriller opening the whole scene is set around a table where a psychopath manipulates a diary. We decided to scatter old newspaper around the table in order to make the murderer look more demented and also so that we could spill ink around the table without ruining it. We then set up all the different props around the table and took pictures of them in order to make sure we kept continuity for later filming. We scattered many pictures of children around the table as well taired up pieces of paper the killer had written on and discarded. Our actor Ray Still had to wash his hands in dirt as his only preparation for the filming.

With the set and our actor finally ready we started to film our movie. The first two scenes we filmed were relatively easy and were done pretty quickly. As they consisted of simply lighting a match, and then lighting a candle from two seperatr angles. We then moved on to the filming of our top down scenes within our opening. This particular shot occurs many different times throughout the intro of our opening therefore we decided to film a few of the top downs not in chronological order to help continuity. These scenes took considerably longer to film as the actor at times had problems with the speed in which the actions had to take place. However we got the shots and were able to keep very good continuity. We then moved on to the scene in which we punctured through the killers diary. Again this scene proved problematic due to the thickness of the diary paper. Therefore we had to remake a whole in order to make the movement more smooth and less force. Using the macro lense we moved on to filming some close ups of the diary being opening and a side on shot of the killer flicking through the book and stopping at

a random page. This was another scene that proved to be problematic to film. We used rack zoom within this scene and we were unable to use a tripod due as the diary was on the table and it was a close up. Therefore whilst trying to use the rack zoom the camera shook a lot which meant we had to refilm the scene a lot to make sure the end product was still and not shaky. We filmed a few more stills of pictures of the child that he cuts up and then we finished for the day, a bit more than halfway through filming.