Planning & Filming

We started thinking of ideas for our thriller opening when the project was first assigned. However it took many weeks and different ideas until we all agreed on our final plot. In the end it took us two whole weeks to plan and sort out everything that was needed to make our film a success. Although we planned in school we also decided to all meet up outside of school and create a story board that would help our plot evolve along the way. We decided as a group from quite an early stage that we were going to film it in Lily’s house as hers was the most acceptable for our storyline. We worked on the story board for three hours, this helped us to develop our idea until we were happy with it.

In the process of planning we also had to decide on what props and equipment we were going to need. As we were going to film outside of the school premises we thought that using the school's equipment may be a bit awkward so I then offered for us to use my camera and tripod, which we did. On the first day of filming we decided to film up to when Lily enters the garage, we thought that this was a good place to stop as it was a specific part in the film that we would remember. On the second day of filming we filmed on from the point we stopped at, this was when myself and Lily were both in the garage. Towards the end of filming our film we knew that we had become a lot more accustomed to the equipment we were using and our storyline was kept on progressing. 

Though we had planned our plot to every tiny detail, the main thing that we forgot to focus on a lot was the lighting. We soon realised this whilst filming because some clips were darker than others on the camera which was clearly noticeable.  It also sowed up whilst we were editing that the lighting on some clips was a lot different in the darkness than others, this meant that we had to be careful on which clips we used so it didn't look silly.