Production Day 1

As shown in the video, this was day one of shooting our thriller and it began with the bedroom scene establishing Sean Williams as our protagonist/recluse who storms out of his room following abuse from his antagonist, Ollie. We arrived at our location, which was Zack's house at 2pm and we began to set up the scene. In the video you will see us putting up posters and placing action figures and other such items around the room and everything is deliberately placed to establish Sean as your typical teenager/nerd without becoming too stereotypical and this is why we made sure not to cover the wall in posters because we felt it would ruin the message we were trying to give off. Sean clearly enjoys his video games as indicated by the desk and this suggests his lack of social skills.

In terms of the filming, this went relatively smoothly. Essentially we kept to our storyboard in terms of what we wanted each shot to show but on the day we filmed several different shots with each of us coming up with different, creative ways of filming the same shot and this is good because it gives us options in post-production. More specifically, I filmed the opening sequence of the establisment of the bedroom and Sean storming out of his room. For another one of the shots, I needed Zack to help me rack focus because with the camera, it is extremely hard to film and pull focus at the same time which is why had a focus puller. Unfortunately, we only had 2 hours to film with Elliot so we didn't get as much done as we wanted, but in the time we had, we did a good job.