Filming: Day 1

On the first day of filming we didn’t in fact do any filming as setting up and preparing Ryan’s shed ready for filming took longer than we had originally expected. We began making the shed ready for filming by covering everything up with dust sheets to conceal all the items in the shed such as, a television, fridge, sofa, which were all irrelevant to our thriller and also to create a degree of mystery as we wanted the audience to speculate what was hiding beneath the dust sheets. We commenced by cutting out text such as, jealousy, killer, murder, from magazines and newspapers which we then laid onto a table beside photographs of random people which was going to be one of the shots we took. The last thing we accomplished on the first day of filming was adjusting the lighting as we had unexpectedly discovered that the lighting in the shed was far too bright for our thriller as the only light source consisted of 4 light bulbs, as a result we came up with the solution to remove 3 bulbs leaving the remaining 1 to light our thriller. However there was another problem, the individual light bulb gave the camera footage an orange glare from the orange walls, which was not the type of lighting we intended to use. Subsequently we pinned a sheet of newspaper on the ceiling in front of the light to act as a filter, significantly reducing the orange glare (we have taken a picture of this as proof). We had ended the day with the settings and props completed, ready for filming next lesson.