Changes and Alterations: Filming (Specifics)

We have had to change the location of our re-shoot as the location is now unavailable, this means that we wont have the scene with the protagonist walking down the stairs; as well as this we have had to change the actor who plays the protagonist as he's unavailable to film any longer so the plan is now to re-shoot everything. Although a nuisance, we will now be able to easily implement the changes we have made to the plan as well as being able to have a better idea of what we want after the first draft of our film. Additionally we have had to change two other actors, the dead man laying on the floor, and the child. The child will now be played by a young boy (Angelo) and there will be an interaction between him and the father as well as some dialogue from the child. We will also have a dog, thus to create a better sense of family and security in the home. 

Also after Imogen and Charlee's research into thriller dialogues including ones that where similar to our films ideas, we came together and had the idea that what we needed to write for Lucy. We decided that she needed to act more scared and have less direct dialogue with the antagonist. As well as this we have decided to added some violence to this scene and have the protagonist kicking Lucy and maybe throwing something at her. This will hopefully make the film more scary and realistic as well as adding a horror element. In our first draft we filmed the protagonists body and didn't show his face, we decided that this didn't really work so his face will now be shown and there will be an interaction between the father and son. 

Changes and Alterations: Filming

We showed the entirety our footage Mr Ford and he was happy with the majority of it and that we could use most of it in our final film, although there were parts of the footage that we felt we would want to go and re-shoot.

The section that we wanted to go out and re-shoot is the scene where the woman being tortured has just woken up and exchanges dialogue with the antagonist . We all agreed that the dialogue would need to be changing as it wasn't the type of dialogue that would be best suited for the type of thriller film we are trying to create. We've decided that Charlee and Imogen will go back and do some research on dialogue in thrillers which are similar to ours so that we can get ideas from this and then write a new script. 

At the moment this is the only part which we need to re film, however we may also need to re shoot the whole scene showing the people who have been tortured as the setting will change and so will the actors make-up  Therefore we may need to film this whole scene again so that the continuity is similar. This is something that will be decided in the near future.

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FILMING: Main shoot

Last Sunday we filmed our entire film excluding the opening shot which we went out and filmed on location a week or so ago. Myself, Charlee and Imogen were present but unfortunately Bethany couldn't make it so we were forced to make continue without her immediate input. 

I had visited the place where we were filming (Which was our friend Giles Westgarth's house) so I had an idea of where we would film and what the shots we would be like as we followed the plan on our storyboard. We would use the garage as the torture room as the space was great for what the film needed and the rough concrete nature of the room seemed great as part of our films mise-en-scene. There were parts of the room such as shelves that would need to be covered but this was no trouble as we had large dust sheets that would cover those areas and also were painted with blood.

We filmed the living room scene in a room upstairs, which was great as the door in the room opened up straight to a set of stairs that we would also be using in the scene. There wasn't much that we needed to change about the room to match our storyboard apart from moving a couple of pieces of furniture out of a couple of the shots that we needed to get. 

Our two captive actors (Lucy Wise and Jonathan Morris) were present and luckily for us Lucy is an amazing make up artist so she was able to give her self and Jonathan brilliant make up such as black eyes and cuts which looked great on film.

Were now in the stages of making our first edit so through this process we will decide if/what needs to be re shot and done again.