Evidence of Filming

I am screwing down the bolt on the jib so that it is secure and the right way round.

I am putting the first weight down on the jib, while supporting it.

I am securing the tripod to make sure that it is balanced and straight

I am putting the second weight on the jib.

I am lining up the high angle shot over the actor, to show what he is doing.

I am checking that the camera is above the action.

I am filming the action being done by the killer.

This is a continuity shot of the actor to make sure that when we film the next day we can make sure that everything he is wearing matches up.

I am recording and waiting for the car to come round. 

I am filming the car coming round.

I am filming the actor taking his keys out of the ignition.

This is me doing a tracking shot on the dolly of the man getting out of the car.

I am using the jib to take a high angle shot of the man locking his car and then walking to the front door.

I am filming from the inside of the house to get a different shot of the man opening the door from the outside.

Animatic

My animatic took me forever to draw out so in the end I just traced some of the storyboard pictures but it really helped me get a sense of what my final thriller opening would look like and an idea of the pace needed.  I didn't include any of the credits or title which would have been a better idea!

Storyboard

Creating the storyboard really gave me a sense of what the thriller could be like but there were a lot of shots here and I sensed that my opening will be too long if I used every single one, especially as I still need the credits.

Risk assessment

I used a real risk assessment form, from Riverside Studios.

Audience research

To do the audience research I used the i-Sight on my Macbook to record the answers. The people I asked were representative of males and females aged 15 to 50, which is the target audience for thrillers.

Most of the audience said they like thrillers but weren't sure on the difference between a thriller and a horror. They mostly all said that suspense and the plot were the most important parts of a thriller. The audience I interviewed would also rather watch it at home instead of the cinema, mainly out of embarrassment as no-one wants to scream (as they can be scary) in the middle of the cinema. The majority of the audience said that they had watched it with someone else, and the younger audience often watched them at a sleepover or when they were staying with another friend.

Death shots

These are the shots that I took to go in my thriller opening but I did have too many so I'll need to cut down on some of them. I want to indicate they have been moved by the killer so I need more than one location for each 'body' but some of the actors were used too many times and some didn't quite look dead enough! The photo of the dead bird may not be used but I made the most of coming across it as it could add further to unsettling the audience.