Filming Schedule Day 1 and 2

Marking Others Work

Marking "Remember me?"

First of all, at the very start of the thriller there is a sentence that states "What you had thought you had left behind is now catching up with you". The sentences English is bad and makes the audience have to read it over again in order to understand what it means. The font is quite childish and has no real connection to what would be used in the opening of a thriller, it seems unprofessional. When the text fades, we go to a shot of a house, the camera is shaking during this shot which doesn't look good. This could've been avoided by using a tripod in order to keep the camera still. "starring Sarah Walker" then appears when a different character is in the shot. This has a negative effect as the audience doesn't know which character Sarah is playing, this makes it harder for the audience to build a connection with that character. The costume of Chris James is way too casual for a villain, it doesn't match the character. When the villain is walking, there is a shot from above him looking down, this is quite uncommon and is unique. When the Phone receives a text, the writing is blurry and unclear. This makes it awkward for the audience to see what it is that has been sent. The flashback to 2003 is quite good. They have edited the colour to make the tape seem old, also the fact they have wrote "2003" at the bottom of every flash back intrigues the audience and makes them wonder what it is that happened that year. When the girl walks down the stairs, there is a blue light on the wooden railing, however when the camera angle changes, the lighting changes to normal light. When the girl then walks through into the next room, the villain is in a very visible position, however she doesn't notice him. This is quite unrealistic. After that, the camera moves from the bottom to the top of the villains body, then goes back down. When the camera reaches his face, a new clip is taken, however either the character or camera is not in the exact same position causing the camera to look like it jolts slightly. This looks unprofessional. I also thought that the music used in the thriller did not match what was happening in it. For example, when the shot changed from the girl reading a newspaper to the villain standing with a hammer, the music did not change in the slightest. This meant that there was no suspense or tension built. Finally, they used a lot of different camera angles, this is a good thing but most were quite close shots. This meant that it was hard for the audience to get a feel of the setting they were using. 

Music

Costumes

The costume designs that we had for our actors didn't change from our original pitch.

For the Stalker we had Jake dress in all black to show that he is a antagonist in the thriller, his costume consisted of a black Parka, Black skinny jeans and black blazers.

For the girl which is playing the victim was to dress as it was a normal day and she was out with her mates. She was dressed in Black ripped jeans, a grey jumper, with a red ribbon in her hair, wearing white converse. When She wakes up she is wearing all grey with a grey Yankees t-shirt, grey bottoms and grey socks still with the red bow in her hair.

For the little girl in the woods we used an old school uniform that was ripped up to show she had been dragged and the shirt has ripped with blood stains on it to show that the stalker had beaten her, this consisted of a white shirt with red all over it, a black skirt, black tights and black school shoes.

Little Girl Make Up

When doing the make up for the little girl we started by using talc on powder all over her face to create a pale effect to represent how she is lifeless and decayed. To create the dark bruises around her eyes we started by building up blue eye shadow on the top of her eyelid which made her eyes look bold. By then using a brown and black eye Shadow we covered the whole of her eye lid and smudged it down to her check bone which gave a dirty tired effect to represent how she hasn't slept. We finished by using the brown to create dirt effects over her face however only put the eye Shadow on her head so it wouldn't defeat the object of her being possessed.

Day 3

Day 3
Thorndon County Park
11:00 am

We needed to go back to the forest for the extra shots we had missed the first time we shot in the forest. Today we needed to shoot a shot of the stalker in the distance and gradually coming closer and closer and a shot of the stalker finally approaching the little girl and swinging a stick at the girl which would explain how she wakes up from her dream with a massive bruise on her neck. The stalker had to be carrying something heavy enough and big enough to knock down and leave a bruise on the girl, so for this part of filming we used a stick that was found on the day, as we had not really planned that part of the clip yet. It was only till we got back to school that we realised that the shots we took on Toms iphone 5s were all portrait and were useless, this is because Sir had asked us if we had filmed portrait or landscape.

Day 2
11:20AM
Tom's house - Doddinghurst.
Tom, Charlotte, Jake, Claudia

We arrived at Tom's house, unfortunately the weather was very bright and sunny, and for this part of our opening scene we needed it to be quite dark and a dim day because it was supposed to be 3:00am in the morning in our thriller. The natural light got in the way a bit from the window in the bathroom and bedroom so therefore we had to make it as dark as we possible could and use the light on the camera to enhance the characters facial features and movements. The hardest shot to film that day was the mirror angle shot and how the we had to film the character (Lily) washing her face and her bruise on her neck at an angle that we as filmer's couldn't be seen in the shot of the mirror. The continuity of the filming was very hard to perfect as we had to try to have Lily's hair in the exact same place as the last perfect shot or we would forget for her to lean down and suddenly her positioning would be completely different, therefore once we tried to accomplish many different shots and angles throughout this day of filming. After coming back to school and editing what we had we decided that most of the shots that were filmed are good but we need to get more good shots as we had some difficulty with the lighting in Tom's bathroom.