How we organised ourselves and what we did

Before we filmed our thriller, we didn't know much about filming, we only knew the basics of shots and editing. So we knew as a group we had to make sure we were organised so we managed to stay ontop of things.
In order to organise ourselves for filming our thriller, we set out a list of what we needed(including props and equipment) for our shoot. All we were given for our shooting was a hd camera and a tripod, the rest we had to organise for ourselves. We knew we only had a certain amount of time to complete shooting our thriller so we tried to make a start straight away.
To play our teenage girl for our Thriller, we managed to find an actress from our school(Tia Simon- Campbell). She gave up her free time to come to our location and shoot for the day which was much appreciated. We thgen also managed to find Josh's dad to play our teenage girl's father.
When we managed to find our actors, we then had to look for a suitable location in the Croydon area close to our school so everyone will be able to make it. We managed to find a location to shoot our thriller which was at a house in Surrey because our main idea was for the film to be shot inside in a normal family home. During filming, we had to make sure that the filming was done witin a certain amount of time because our thriller idea is that the daylight is dusk, so we had to make sure our shooting outside was completed befor it got dark outside. We chose the daylight to be dusk because it gives the audience a more dark thriller feeling and this would make opur film seem more interesting than broad daylight. Not many other thrillers are shot when outside is completely bright, there is always a slight shade. Before filming, we had to make sure we had the correct props for our thriller. We had sto make sure for certain that we had the pictures of random teenage girls because it was going to be in the shot. So a few days before shooting our thriller, we walked around school asking for girls permission if we could take a photo of them for our thriller, then the pictures would be threw away afterwards. We also had to make sure that the father was dressed smart(suit and tie) like he has just got home from work. The teenage daughter also had to make sure she was wearing normal clothes that she would wear when shes in the house.

Ashley