Wednesday 3rd March - filming

Today we booked out the cameras so we could take them out of school. We travelled to my house, where we had planned to film this part of the thriller. We took the storyboard with us so that we knew which scenes we needed to shoot and how we were going to shoot them. Charlotte then started to film. We began filming on the street that lead up to the house, this went well and I as we had the right lighting and Shaun worked well with us as sometimes cars went by and it was hard for me and Charlotte to film it. We then moved up the drive to film Shaun coming up the other way. This was really good as the setting was perfect and we used the camera well to get the right parts of the trees in like it is shown on our storyboard. I then filmed Shaun going into the house; this was quite simple as the lighting was good as it had changed as we moved up the drive, making it look darker as we went inside. We then filmed inside. Charlotte then positioned the camera inside the house, on the stairs; this was a bit tricky as the tripod did not fit on the stairs. However, she managed to film Shaun walking in the door well by holding the camera still.

We then travelled to another house, where we had planned to film Natasha, as the old woman. This went well. We set up the large light in the correct place and began to film. I shot Tasha in a long shot from the end of the room, rocking in a rocking chair. The camera panned upwards slowly viewing the character from the feet upwards. This gave the audience the feel of the character. Shaun then filmed Tasha close up. We tried to create the effect of a hand held, unsteady atmosphere. This would make the audience feel as though there was a sense of worry and tension.