Thriller Sequence

When we shot our Opening Sequence for the thriller (19.01.10) we first met up in the studio. We were there with Luke and Guy our Media teacher who were with us the whole time and watched and helped us with several things. Because of the fact that we were well organized it should have been easier and should have took less time to shoot the 2 Minutes. I would change basic things for example idea or location. Not because the idea it is not good but because of it's difficulty we made things harder for ourselves. The idea should have been planed more!
Another thing is the location. We separated the day into two sections the first one we shot in the studio and the other time in the library. So we had to build and set up the studio and lighting. This is very hard and it is easy to make mistakes.The reason why directors shoot their scenes in studios are because of the space and the lighting in our case there was both enough in the library so there was no logical reason why we shot in the studio. The library had very good light conditions and there was enough space to shoot our scene. I would suggest to shoot as much in location as possible to capture the atmosphere and to avoid silly mistakes!!!!

The reason why we used a library as a location because it represents information and our title sequence follows a woman that is looking for a murder. We used books like "Freud-The Mind" or "Law-Crime" this are books which could be used in a crime case by the police.
My job was to select the shots and to shoot them. I and Luke came together after every shot and talked about what could be done different to make it more effective we were aiming to compose a picture that would have a great impact on the audience. For example we used a very smooth tracking shoot of a close-up of our actress to create a smooth and calm mood. Elly was there to organize the props and to put everything in position which she did very well. We used things that are connected with research for example news papers, books or a laptop. Lukas was responsible for the sound and Leayer was the glue that hold us all together as her role as the producer.

We choose our actress because she looked like a normal teen age girl. She did her job very well and had a lot of patients which is required in the film business!


We worked well as a team but if I look back we all could have done something better to create a better atmosphere on the set. It was tensed because of organisational problems or because some people did more or less then other. Next time I would plan the shots before the actual shoot it is just helpful and more organized. I would have done more different shots for one "scene" the reason for that is so later in the editing suite we would have more choices and could be more selective, this improves the quality of the final picture. We tried to overcame problems like: wrong or not effective props. Because we integrated our Titles in the props they were really important sometimes the writing was to small so we had improvise. All in all we did well but still could have done better!