Thriller- Version 1

Editing

We decided to all edit the thriller together so we all had an equal input, although we edited it together, Jonathon and I mainly worked on the cross cutting, and Zoran's main contribution was the input of the titles. The rest was a joint effort where we worked together. The software we used to edit our footage was Sony Vegas, however this software was not available on the school's computers, so we decided to bring Jonathon's laptop into college so we could upload the footage to it, and still work together.

After editing we realised we didn't really have any good shots for the last shot, they were all too shaky, and it was not obvious enough at the end that i was dead. So, we decided we would need to re shoot it with some fake blood, and try and film it a little sturdier.

Filming

We already decided to film out thriller at my house, as it suited the plot the best, although this location was the furthest out of the way, we were dedicated to making it of the best possible quality, so we didn't mind going out of the way to. However it was convenient as in by using my house it meant we could film at all at once, we had considered filming it in separate locations, however this would have been a lot of hassle.

Before we started filming there were several factors we made sure were right so we could work in the right conditions. One factor was the props and locations, we needed to make sure that we had the gun, the kettle and the mug at my house ready to use during shooting, otherwise it would cause more trouble and hassle than necessary. Me and jonathon both needed to make sure that we had the right costumes ready so when the weather was right we wouldn't have anything to sort out.

We wanted the weather to be quite sunny so as the outside scenes weren't to hard to shoot, and there would be enough light to make everything clear and visible. Although the inside shots didn't, as we could simply turn the light on, we wanted to shoot all of the shots together. This meant we had to be prepared and available so whenever we thought the conditions were suitable, Jonathon and Zoran were both on call to come straight to mine.

On the day when we decided these were all in order, they both came to mine. The whole time we had the storyboard with us, and beforehand we all studies for about 20 minutes, so that when we shot we knew the compositions and framings of everything, so we could make the film as accurate to our planning as possible. Because we were confident that what we had planned would show our abilities at there best, and would reflect the knowledge we had gained from our research, there was nothing we had to change beforehand.

We also had our risk assessments with us, so we didn't make mistakes. This was so none of us injured ourselves and we didn't break anything. I think, because we had these with us, everything when very smoothly and according to plan.

When we did start shooting, we shot all the outside shots first, because this meant if got dark as the evening went on we didn't have to stop. It wouldn't have had been a sensible choice to do it the other way round, because if it got dark we would have had to shoot the rest another day.

We shot every shot three or four times, to make sure we got them all to perfection. We wanted to make sure we had a large variety of shots to choose from when we came to editing so we could see what shots fitted together best, and what didn't.

After filming, which went well and positively, we decided there wasn't any changes needed to make to the storyboard. All the shots were ok so far, however we would have to wait until we edited it and see whether or not it was ok.