Final Thriller: Process and Evaluation

February 4th 2009

In class today, we basically planned out the storyline and the different types of camera shots that will occur at different times. We also planned the costumes, me as the gangleader all dressed in black with black heels and sunglasses to portray the sexy look, aswell as Baska in a smart black suit and tie to convey the idea of a bodyguard. Dainii volunteered to be the victim, therefore she would be dressed in ordinary clothes. We discussed various locations for our thriller, the locations suggested were Southbank, City and Islington College and a restaurant basement which Baska knew the owner. Since the restaurant had certain oriental vibe to it, we decided to set up our shots based on the setting, working from the photographs Baska had taken of the place. We then decided to start filming in the next 3 hour media lesson which was on February 6th.

February 6th 2009

The first day of filming. We made our way from City and Islington College after lunch at 1.15, towards Bethnal Green were the restaurant was at. Once we got to the location, we set up the camera, starting with the shots of me and Baska walking down the stairs. In addition to the shots we have planned beforehand, we also experimented with different angles just in case they turned out more sucessful than the ones we have on the storyboard. We managed to finish filming the full scene where i address Dainii, however at certain times we needed to be more focused and stop laughing. In that scene, we also played around with the roles when I found it difficult to concentrate, therefore Dainii switched roles with Tahmina (who was working the camera).

February 10th 2009

In this lesson we focused on looking through the footage we filmed last week to see if there were any improvements we can make the next time we filmed. By looking through the footage, we noticed cetain shots were badly lit, shaky and out of focus. However many shots were useable therefore we decided to log and capture them. We managed to finish logging and capturing before the lesson ended so we decided to go to Chinatown, West End to film extra footage to set the portray the mise-en-scene. Whilst in Chinatown we filmed a variety of different scnese such as the market stalls and lanterns.


February 13th 2009

The second day of filming however since it was on a inset day we all had to meet up at 11 outside College. Me and Dainii were late which emeant less filming time aswell as Tahmina having to leave early. In this filming session we decided to film the whole scene over again however this time more focused than last time. It was sucessful and we finished on time apart from the fact that we never had the chance to film the close ups in the beginning of me stepping out off the car and entering the restaurant, nonetheless we can use the footage from Chinatown.

February 16th 2009

During half term, the college let us come in on one day to edit our thrillers, since Tahmina and Baska couldn't come, me and Dainii had to edit the film. However we only mand to log and capture the footage, this was because the equiptment had a few difficulties in recognising the iMac.

Febuary 24th 2009

In this lesson, we focused mainly on editing the clips into the opening. Keeping in mind the ideaof continuity and match shots, we sucessfully edited the first half of the thriller in the 1 1/2 hour lesson, however the next lesson was the deadline. Because we have limited time, we couldn't film the extra footage of me stepping out of the car, as a result had to edit the footage from Chinatown and footage from the restaurant to make it look like they were happening in the same place. Since we didnt have enough time, myself and Dainii had to sacrafice our own free time after college to finish editing the opening.

February 27th 2009

Thriller Deadline. We had a 3 hour lesson in which we managed to get alot done. Firstly we edited the video clip, then searched for suitable music to edit into our soundtrack.