Thriller Video

FILMING THE THRILLER: TAKE ONE


After finally completeing our final shot plan we decided that we were ready so went off to film our thriller. The plan for the thriller changed every lesson but we finally decied on Michaels idea. An idea in which explores different types of camera shots while at the same time creates suspense, all of this without any sound effects. But of course we decided to also add sound effects to give the thriller greater suspense. Our location was in Ec1, Pembury a deserted area where hardly any cars pass by. This was decided as a reasonable place for the thriller as it's not in a obvious area of London but the postcode is going to reveal that it is set in London. Our main corps for the opening 20 seconds is Derick's car. The opening 20 seonds is going to be split proportionally in half of external and internal shots, so 10 seconds will aply for the internal shots and 10 seconds for the external shots. We went to film the opening 20 seconds and when we arrived at the place we realised that Dericks car wasn't washed and still dirty. As Dereck is playing the role of a detective we decided that a dirty car wasn't suitable but still went ahead with the shooting for practice. Mainly the external shots were focused on Detective Derick rolling into the scene with the car, the follow shot was a tilt of Derick coming out of the car which imiadetely signaled authority. The internal shots mainly focused on corps in which Detective Derick had inside the car, corps such as: a watch, car keys, detective badge etc. All of these corps showed that Dereck was a man of authority. The focus turned to filming outside of the car. We had several shots of Dereck walking out of his car and also a tilt of Deredck. The tilt also shows that Dereck is a man of authority. Furthermore, authority is also portrayed by the clothes in which Dereck is in. Smartly dressed, a shirt, shoes and trousers. After the filming we headed of to the editting room and wanted to finish the introduction of the clip. Here we came to a problem, the shots in which we had taken were inaffective as in nearly all the shots the reflection of me and Michael could be seen. As these were major mistakes we decided that on thursday we were going to film the opening scene again.