1ST DAY OF FILMING!- BEHIND THE SCENES

Today, Katy, Mae, Chloe and I all went to our local coffee shop to do the first part of our filming. This post will show you a sneak peak of our film, and what we got up to.

Here, we have Katy ( filming) and Mae ( acting). Here, we have Katy filming Mae on the phone to Tara. It took a while for us to get the correct angles, as our reflections where showing a lot in the windows of the coffee shop. We eventually got the correct angles we needed, in able to get a sufficient piece of filming.

LOCATION:

We decided that a coffee shop would be an ideal place to film part of our clip. Coffee shops are a local and busy area that the general public enjoy going to at all points in the day. Thriller films, always have a local/ busy place shown in the film, such as restaurants ( in the James bond films) and shopping malls. This is because it shows a sense of reality to the audience. It can make the film more relatable as people can relate to going to coffee shops, or well known places. We chose the coffee shop "Costa" to film where Tara is supposed to be meeting Ellie. We feel it was a good place, where our characters meet to catch up and have a coffee, until Ellie gets stood up, as Tara does not turn up. We also brought drinks from the shop, to emphasize the reasoning on Ellie being there. ( They were also a good treat to have while filming :) )

We used a tripod to hold the camera in place. The tri pod had many different functions so that we could move the camera around into the places that we wanted. It was light to carry around and easy to fix the camera into place. If we did not have the camera, then our footage would have been wobbly, and not straight and visual footage. We used a NIKON D3200. This camera had exceptional focal lengths, and allowed us to change these as well, to get good camera movement such as zooming and panning. The camera also had very good mega-pixels, which made the objects in focus look realistic on the camera. The sound was also good, but we can always edit the sound levels using adobe premiere.

MISE EN SCENE:

we wanted to focus a lot on our characters clothing. We didn't want her to look too extreme or over the top. Mae ( our character) was wearing a green, puffer jacket, jeans, and a black top, with a silver watch on. We wanted our character to appear innocent, and slightly vulnerable. This is because we wanted her to be relatable to the audience, and appear like an average, ordinary girl. We didn't want to use bright, vibrant clothes, as we wanted to keep the negative, mysterious effect that our genre has. ( thriller)The watch was also an important prop/ item of clothing to use. This is because we record a part where Ellie looks at her watch. This immediately shows the audience that she is waiting for someone and becoming slightly impatient. We thought this would be better than using her phone, as we have already included the phone a lot during this scene. We ensured that she had a bag, so that she appears like an ordinary women, holding her handbag.

TIMING WHEN FILMING:

We ensured we filmed around 14:30-3pm. We thought this was a good time to film as it was very quiet around our local town. This was good, as there was not too much background noise, so we could get a good clip. Also the lighting was good. As it is November, it gets dark a lot quicker. So there was a darkish, negative mood in the weather, which helps to emphasize our mysterious, thriller genre.

We will be editing our film using Adobe Premiere.