Location, Time & Organisation

As a group, we have decided that our entire thriller will take place in Ryan’s shed. There are many advantages for this, one of them is that previous media students have used weapons such as a knife in their thriller in public areas, which when being waved around from someone else’s point of view can mistakenly come across as a crime to those who are unaware and so they will call the police to investigate and not only will this waste the polices time but also the students as they will have some explaining to do. So by us using a knife in our thriller in a concealed space prevents any interruptions or false assumptions meaning we can get on with our work without having to worry about any disturbances of this nature. Another advantage is that because Ryan’s shed has not finished being decorated, it gives it a grimy appearance which will benefit us as we are filming a thriller and want the setting to be as grisly as possible. A third advantage is that the shed is a fairly small space which means if there were any lighting problems for example, too much or too little light then solving the problem would be manageable as we wouldn’t have to worry about dealing with a huge deal of space.


The picture above represents the layout of our filming location from a bird’s eye view. The extra rectangle near the top left corner corresponds to us filming from the outside. The N/A area was not used and the picture and key pretty much sums up what we had to work with.

Time:
We are planning on starting and finishing our filming, ready to edit within 2 double lessons. On the first double lesson we are hoping to organize Ryan's shed and begin our filming and then finish off any outstanding shots in the next double lesson. The reason why we have given ourselves only 2 double lessons to organise and film is because our thriller is going to take place in a very confined space, which means to film our thriller we only have to move the camera about in a small area which we should be able to quickly film what we need. However if we do need extra time to film then that is what we shall do.

Organisation:
Ryan will be the only individual appearing in our thriller, whilst Mitch will be the camera man doing the filming, leaving myself and Mike taking care of the lighting, fitting and removing the props and adding any constructive suggestions during the filming process. We are not intending on using any additional pupils in any process of our thriller.