Filming: 21st January

On 21st Saturday our group got together to film our thriller. Before we started doing this however, we had to make sure the room was set up exactly how we wanted it. This including things like: lighting- making sure we could see the actress but have low key lighting at the same time, props- making sure we could use the handcuffs and deciding where abouts we could use them on the bed, costume- getting the dress ready to make sure it fits the stereotypical conventions and make up- to make sure the actress had life-like bruises and blood stains/cuts on her skin. This meant that we also had to take pictures of everything to make sure next time we filmed we got the continuity right.

When we started filming we took many shots of the opening scene to make sure we got it perfectly. This is because we either made the camera jumpy or made it pan too slow or fast. We found this happened to many of our other shots throughout the day so each time we had to repeat it to make sure it was good. Due to Charlie leaving early, we filmed her and Luke's parts separately- so we couldn't film them together.

When we put our videos onto the computer we found that most of our shots didn't look good as they were either too fast or too jumpy. This means that next time we film we have to make sure that we film accurately; we can see now that filming is a hard task so we must practise to enable good results.

Things to consider next time:

• getting mise-en-scene perfect to enable good continuity
• keeping shot steady and accurate