The first thing we did on our shooting day was to make sure Paula (our actress) knew how to use the sniper rifle. We then went to Cornhill. The very first thing wee had to film was Ted because he was only available from 9 till 11. We also helped Paula get dressed and do her hair makeup; it was essential because the character she was interpreting is a very classy and sexy killer.
We filmed it in Cornhill because it looks like a hotel. However it is a boarding house now so we had to take out most of the stuff in the room and change the bed sheets because they were pink and that did not correspond to the sort of room our character would be staying in. We also had to make sure that half of the room wasn’t in any of the shots because it looked too much like a boarding house room rather than a hotel room. Because of this we had to change the angle of other shots.We used several different types of shots; we used high angle shots to make her look mire powerful; but we decided not to use it because it made her look very strange. We used a point of view shot from her to Ted to show that she is going to shoot him. However we didn’t film that shot from the window in her room because you couldn’t see the car park from it. We did many handheld shots because they looked more interesting and allowed us more liberty with the camera then if we were only using it on the tripod. They were also the only way for us to take some shots from he window where we see her putting down the hand gun and aiming with the sniper. We also did an incredible amount of close ups to show what she is doing, how she is setting up the gun... We also had to set go-pros on Ted’s car to film it while he was driving.After that we concentrated on Filming Paula. We wanted her to look rely sexy, professional, powerful and dangerous so that the film would attract people aged from 16 to 20 year olds. We did this by using low angle shots of her setting up the gun (to make her look more powerful and dangerous), Slow motion shots (to make her look sexier) and close-ups of her hands setting up the gun to show that she really knows what she is doing. We decided to try and film some of the moments in slow motion that day, it was possibly the best idea we could have ever had as it adds a lot to the scene. We also wanted to film a shot of her shooting out of the window but the window was to high up to film it from outside so we had to film her aiming on the bed as if it was the windowsill, making sure that the back of the room wasn’t in focus.
We wanted our character to look like a cross between “Hannah”, “Salt” and a Bond girl.
We had originally chosen to have Paula ware a skirt and high heeled shoos but we finally decided that black fitted trousers would be better because it makes her look more professional but kept the heels. We chose black as a dominant colour because it looks mysterious; however we chose a delicate black see-trough silk blouse with white butterflies because this makes her look more feminine and sexy. We also chose to have her with red lipstick and red nails to signify that she is a “femme fatale” All her cloths were straight of the catwalk because we wanted her to look extremely glamorous. She is in contrast with the mail character that we wanted to look like a grungy policeman. They are binary opposites as he is graceful and he is chewing gum to show that he isn’t very sophisticated.
We chose Paula for the “femme fatale” (Catherina) because she is very beautiful and looked perfect with the sniper in her hands. She also has amazing facial expressions that are at the same time very sexy and dangerous. She would appeal both to a female and mail audience aged from 16 to 20s. We chose Ted for the man she is trying to shoot because he looks like an important businessman or politician. We chose Simon for the policeman because he is very different from Paula (he has brown hair she is blond, she has blue eyes he has brown eyes) and because we saw him in an opening sequence of a thriller from last year and he was rely good in it.
The lighting in the room where we filmed in was very warm and orange. We wanted the lighting to be very cold and bright so we used high lightingcovered by a blue plastic film to cool the lighting down (blue is the complementary colour for orange so it annulled the orange of the light). This worked extremely well and if I could go back I would definitely not change this
We didn’t use any sound because we are going to add it during editing.
As a team we worked rely well together as a team. We discussed the mise en scene together and how we were going to film the thriller. There was a big debate about if we should film the thriller in slow motion or not; in the end we tried it and realised that it was amazing so we kept it. We also discussed a lot about the mise-en-scene; what sort of hair due Paula should have, if she should have it up or down. We also discussed if Simon should wear a tie and decided it would fit better with his character if he only wore a shirt. We decided beforehand what shots we were going to do but on the shoot day we still all came up with new interesting shots for it. We weren’t sure of what ending would be best, to have Paula or Simon die at the end or to have a blackout and just here a gunshot so we filmed different endings. I personally think that the black out is the best option, as it would leave the audience in suspense. All the elements of our thriller opening sequence were carefully studied by all of us to create as much suspense as possible and respond to the demands of the thriller genre.
I am very happy with the result of our shooting day. Everything went very smoothly, we got all the shots done on time. I couldn’t say what went best on the shooting day because everything was so amazing. Probably what was the most fun to film were the slow motion scenes and the scene where Simon enters the room. So many of the shots are good that I don’t know how will be abele to choose them when we get to editing.
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