Shooting day account

At the very beginning of the shooting day, which started at 9 o’clock, we, first of all, printed off last posters we needed, found all the props and brought them down to the location(corridor) to organize everything for the event. We also found all the people(actors) and told them when are they necessarily needed. we sticked the posters all over the walls, put the black curtain on the back of the corridor, and arranged the lighting. It started just as we were planning. 

Our locations were corridor and boys loo, that helped us to reflect men night club toilet and created the atmosphere of not the luxurious but the underground kind of club. 

We didn’t have loads of props, because we wanted the mise-en-scene to look as close to the real as possible: just a few glasses, bottles, rubbish, and posters on the walls and floor. Actors were wearing usual clothes that they would wear in the club, girls had their evening make up on. Intentionally, we didn’t make an accent on people, but only on the main character , eyes and facial expressions to show the audience paranoia/drug addiction of the main man. Important role in our thriller will play the music and sounds we are going to add during editing, because they are going to create tension. 

We tried to follow the storyboard as much as possible, but everything was actually going by itself, as soon as we started filming, ideas went out of us, and we changed almost every shot, just thinking about the conclusion we would like to receive after all. 

It wasn’t easy to work with so many people (we had 12 actors) but we tried our best to cope with all the process problems and get ourselves organized.  

Firstly, we’ve done the corridor bit, and after 3 o’clock approximately went to the loo, where we didn’t need to have all the people, but only 3.

Cast choice: Adam - main character, and our teacher fitted his role perfectly, as he was working with us through the whole process of inventing the story, from first ideas till the day of the shooting, he perfectly knew every detail about his character, that is why we choose him, because it wasn’t easy to manage to play it great without knowing what you have to do. We didn’t only need a good camera work and editing but also a good play of actors’ facial expressions. That is why every body in our piece has a legible face and eyes expressions. 

We didn’t have a lot of girls, as the actions take part near and in the boys loo. 

The most difficult part was to film Adam walking into the loo and seeing his reflection in the mirror, we hardly manage to film it with the least quantity of camera in the shot, so we will be able to crop it later on during the editing. 

Lighting: we didn’t start our shooting just from the very beginning of the school day because we had a lot of lighting to put in, so they will be looking suitable and not to overfilling the shot. We used UV lights, which we put on the floor and sticked on the walls because it it where they usually located in the night clubs, and also had few colorchanging lamps that are also very popular in clubs to create the atmosphere, however it was very difficult to mix FLO lights with UV lights because one FLO lights destroyed the effect of UV lights, whereas it wouldn’t have been enough light if we’d used only UVs. So, we’ve spend a lot of time setting all off them and changing almost in every shot we were doing. 

 However, we don’t have any dialogs in our extract(as it makes it more creepy) we are going to add sound effects and music that will help to make it look and sound more like thriller, so the audience will be intrigued and excited. We also filmed sound of the loo, that we are going to add while editing the thriller.

It was very difficult and time-consuming work, we’ve finished it at 5 o’clock , so we were working for 8 hours, and everybody who took part in our production were tired and done up, we nevertheless enjoyed it and had a very good experience, which is difficult to get into. So I’m proud of myself and all my group that we’ve managed and impossibly thankful for an enormous help to Luke, who suffered from our inexperience, opened for us the doors to the media sphere and explained and showed how it works.