How Our Shooting Went

 To begin with, we designed our credits in a different way to which we had researched into. We discussed the colours we could use and decided that big bold RED text would look effective against a white background. It is the colour associated with danger and illustrates the bloodshed which will occur during the opening of our thriller. We chose to hand write the credits to make it symbolise the chaotic atmosphere the opening displays but still use the idea of  the psycho characters hands flicking through the bible showing the credits of "OUTCAST PRODUCTIONS" with out names and candidate numbers. However, when we looked back at the credits, it didn't reflect upon the atmospheric idea we wanted to create, but looked messy and unprofessional. Realising this, we knew that we would need to redo our credits at a later date to determine a more professional look. This will be done with the ideas we first thought of using bold BLACK text against a white background with the religious illustrations occurring in the bible throughout the flashes of credits.

 We managed to stick to our plan and do each scene at a fast rate and finish the filming within one day. We had two breaks through out the day, one break was in the morning as the bitterly cold weather was becoming too much to stand outside in for hours. We went inside Henry's, looked over everything we had already filmed and discovered some of the footage was unsatisfactory and so after a warm drink we filmed some of our footage again as we were by this time much more familiar with the camera settings.

 On the night before filming, I sat and looked at You tube clips to fully understand each camera shot and how they work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laU2MI6X48I&feature=related

 When editing our thriller opening, we discovered that our storyline included too much footage. When adding all of the blackouts and detail which the opening needed to ensure it made sense properly whilst still looking effective, the time of the opening was well over 3 and a half minutes. The task set for us was to make an opening, being 2 minutes approx. This made us have to cut down the editing by almost half. We decided that our story line was too complicated and took a long time to get across to the audience causing the editing to be less conventional and have no techniques.We wanted too include one shot repetitively, to show the main focus of the opening and left us feeling unhappy with it. I said to the group it would work better if the religious man, innocent girl, and drug dealer were completely unconnected. This meant taking out the argument scene between Kingston and I and the relationship scene where Henry lingered in the background watching and planning his new move to kidnap me. By reducing this right down and showing Kingston and I to not know each other, also put much more focus on the main character and the reasons as to why he is so obsessed with the girl. It also allowed us to show lots of the bible, which would be very important to the character, demanding the audience to see just how religious he is.

When shooting our thriller opening, we found it challenging to act in such cold conditions for a long period of time. During the longest scene, I needed to act unconscious leaving Henry to drag me to the car and put me in. This took a long time to film as it was hard to drag me for that amount of time without me slipping and when filming something as serious as this scene with people you know it was hard to remain in character and not breaking out into laughter. When Henry put me into the car, we experienced a minor injury by him hitting my head on the door frame. Due to the cold weather making the pain much more intense, I took a five minute break to apply pressure onto it to try to reduce the pain. After this it was very hard to play a character who needed to remain lifeless due to the challenge of disconnecting my body from my brain to stop myself from worsening the injury. However, it was of great importance to try to remain as much in character as possible to keep our thriller opening looking realistic.