Start of our production

In order to help with the preliminary task and the main task, we have been watching and analyzing a variety of different thrillers, including 'Memento,' 'Pacific Heights,' 'Vertigo,' 'Rope' and 'The Usual Suspects.' We watched these pictures to get an understanding of the conventions of the Thriller genre from different points in time from different producers' perspectives. The conventions soon became apparent, as did the personal styles of each producer and/or director. We were then given the task of shooting the preliminary task, which was: Someone opens the door, walks across a room, sits down in a chair opposite another character and exchanges two sentences of conversation. To begin, we created a storyboard comprising of three shots. The purpose of the storyboard was to give us a clear idea of what we need to do. We then started preparing to film, i.e. getting actresses and creating the setting, and were pleased when we got it done in two lessons. The first day of shooting, we had difficulties with our organisation, such as forgetting the battery, however, we managed to shoot enough scenes to make up half of our preliminary task, therefore learning from our mistakes. We eventually made the preliminary task and edited it accordingly. This wasn't easy, especially in a group of three people in terms of organisation. We didn't use a tripod because our selected camera didn't have one, so we had to test our skills manually. It proved challenging and the picture was shaky but after a lot of preparation we managed to stabilise the picture as much as possible. We also tested our manual skills when focusing the lense, but we still realised that the task would have been a lot easier with a better-equipped camera.