Filming Day Two: Tuesday 18th February

We decided to keep momentum going and film two days in a row. Upon arrival at Ryan's house at around 1300 we got straight into filming as the table and lighting was already set up from the previous day of filming. We started the day by filming the scene in which the killer carves the image of a child out of photo consisting of a mother and son. Using a 1930s razor Ray found in storage we filmed the close up scene which went very well. We then focused on filming the different scenes in which text credits are revealed by being written by the killer. The first credit was simply a close up of the killer writing on a piece of paper which he then crumbles up.

The next text credit shot is of the killer burning a sheet of paper on the candle. This scene was probably the most difficult to film and took three goes to do. The first time we attempted to burn the sheet of paper on the fire we actually put the candle out by pressing the paper to hard on it. The next go the paper took way to long to set a light and the writing was eligible in the shot. The third shot went very well with the paper burning quickly and credit on the paper being easy to read, we also got a close up shot of the flames the paper created which we plan on using for a transition in our film. The next three shots we took were all fairly away and quick. They included the killer dipping his pen in ink and writing Dear Diary in two different shots, one closer up than the other. We decided against two shots that were to hard to do properly. These included a close up of ink dripping of a pen which is swiftly turned round and the ink is caught. We tried this process fifteen times and were unable to get the right shot. The other scene we decided to get rid of was a panning shot of the entire room, however due to continuity and a television we were unable to remove from the background we decided against this scene. The final scene we filmed was one in which we left a pen on a diary page and let ink run down the page where text will later by added. This completed the filming of our thriller opening which was definitely a lot easier on the second day. Upon completion we looked at all the footage in case of continuity problems but we could find no severe ones.