Filming

The Filming Process for Our Thriller


As you can see from our original script we met a wall in the filming process in the fact that the girl we had enlisted to play the victim's friend and film the point of view shots from the second camera became too ill meaning that the script and camera shots had to be changed to get around this problem.

Therefore during the flashback scene much of the filming was alternated between Stephen Smith and Katherine Smith in order to film as much footage as possible with the killer as the audience's focus. For the majority of the scene a handheld camera was used due to the fact that the plot line revolved around the murder being filmed and we wanted the footage to have the shaky quality of being handheld and also having the person move as they filmed. Another use for the handheld camera was the panning shot of Issac Alcock as he walked through the forest, creating noise for the victim to follow as here we did not want the camera to be completely steady.

(Katherine Smith filming the panning shot)

For the rest of the scene a tripod was used so that there was steady footage within the flashback scene, an example of this is the 360 degrees shot just before the murder which we wanted to keep smoother than the majority of our shots.

 (Stephen Smith preparing the camera for filming)

For the majority of the interior shots we used a tripod to hold the camera steady as unlike the flashback scene the plot line here did not revolve around someone filming their observations meaning there was less call for the footage to be possessed of a naturally shaky quality meaning that we wanted to hold the camera as still as possible.

Here is a list of the equipment we used

• Two cameras
• A tripod
• Two tapes
• Spare Batteries
• A Charger