Filming the thriller

We have now had our first filming session of the making of the thriller, my group and I decided to use Candy's house as the main location to shoot the thriller as it was practical for everyone to be able to go to a location where we would not be disturbed and could shoot the necessary shots for our film. During this shoot we shot many scenes at Candy's house such as the establishing shot of the house where the intruder would be lurking around, the shot of the bath scene where Candy is running a bath and the shots of Candy looking at the illicit content.

This first shoot was very successful and the group managed to obtain a lot of footage that could be used in our final thriller, we spent about 3 hours filming at Candy's house until we had to return the camera and equipment back to the college. Candy’s house was a very good team decision that the group had made because when we were filming her throughout the scenes she looked very comfortable within her environment and this was portrayed in the footage which made it look real and not exaggerated.

As we had so much time to film we managed to get great shots of characters and props using the cameras tripod in many different ways that enabled us to shoot high-angle shots, low-angle-shots, medium and long shots. These shots would then be edited down into fewer shots and would look immense on screen. Next lesson we will return to Candy’s house to conduct more filming as we do not have enough footage so far too edit at the moment.