Our first group meeting in the christmas holidays:

A few days in to the christmas holidays Khushel, Viraj, Nimesh and myself agreed to meet up together and began filming our final shoot for our thriller opening film sequence. We started shooting bright and early sorting out the different props we needed in order to create the right setting/location for our scene. Whilst we were setting up the location with props, lighting and dark blankets to block out the light, we decided that it would be a good idea if we let the camera film whilst setting up the room so the audeince recieved an inside scoop into the 'behind the scenes' of our location, in this case Nimesh's bathroom and how Nimesh and myself worked together to film the death scene. Once everything had been set up and after completing a couple of practice shots, we were rearing to go.

We shot many 'reflection shots' of myself getting ready looking in the bathroom mirror before noticing Nimesh emerge in the doorway. We had to take quite a few shots of this scene as when we watched the clip back, we noticied that the camera emerged from the side of the shot. However, after a few takes we succeeded in filming the shot without the camera being seen. Khushel and Viraj (our directors) took different camera shots from different angles in the bathroom but still bearing in mind the '180 degree rule.' The one shot that took us quite a lot of time to film was the shot in the bathroom. This was where Nimesh span me around and threw me against the bathroom door suffocating me with a plastic bag. The main reason for this was because we wanted to make sure that I recieved enough oxygen and was able to breathe, without actually being suffocated! Additionally, we had some difficulties when Nimesh had to spin me around, hold me against the door, whilst pulling out the plastic bag from his pocket, all within seconds of the shot. When filming this shot we'd reach halfway and then the bag would get caught in Nimeshs pocket so we'd have to cut what we'd filmed so far and re-film the shot again. Thankfully, after a few practice shots we managed to get it just right so it looked realistic and fast paced.

We decided that after a full day's shoot we would arrange to meet up again to film the bedroom scene, towards the end of the christmas holidays.