The Filming of the Thriller

Firstly, we went to the location where we were shooting the thriller. We went to the park first and did some shots with the young girl on the swing. We decided to do a point of view shot from behind a bush as with thought this would give the effect that someone was watching the little girl while she was at the park. We then did some shots of the little girls feet while she was running, we thought that this would be a good effect as the audience would not know if the girl was running away from someone or she could just still be getting watched whilst she's playing at the park. We thought that this would add tension to the audience watching. After the park we did some close up shots of the little girls feet again running along a street, we again thought this would look as though she was running away from a stalker. We was going to have the little girl walking with her mum but with thought it would be more effective if the little girl was alone. The problems we had whilst shooting these parts were that we found it very difficult to follow the girl while she was swinging on the swing so it looked abit blury afterwards but we thought that this was a good effect. Next we went to the garage, we did an over the shoulder shot of the man looking at the pictures of all the children and then the last shot that we got to was of the girl on the swing at the park, we then zoomed the camera in on this picture so then the audience would get the impression that this whole film was going to be focused on this one little girl. We thought that it was really good that we had a picture of the girl at the park and then a shot of the girl at the park because it really shows that this man has been following her. The last shot we did was another over the shoulder shot of the man looking again in the book of the picture of the little girl and then he closes the book. We thought that this shot would be good as we thought this would be a good end to the opening sequence, with the man just closing the book. The problems that we had in the garage were that there was not much lighting as there were no windows so when we flimed the man it came out really dark. So we had to get a light and flash it over the man while he was looking at the book so then you could also see the pictures a lot more clearly. This was very difficlut as we didn't want to much light as we were trying to make this part of the opening sequence look a bit darker to show that he was the villian. We eventurly overcame the problem by putting a sheet in front of the light so not as much light came through and the lighting was just right.