Our Second group meeting in the christmas holidays and what still needs to be done:

In the last few days of the christmas holidays my group, group 4 arranged to meet up one last time to film the first scene in our thriller opening film sequence. We met up first thing in the morning and immediately got straight to work setting up the bedroom with blankets to block out the light, lighting, cushions and photographs, which are all significant items introducing the character to the film. Again, we set up the dolly and camcorder allowing it to record a 'behind the scenes' of Nimesh's bedroom and how we organised the props and placed them in the correct areas of the room.

In my opinion, the bedroom scene took the longest to film for the reason that we wanted the location and character to look as though they were being filmed late at night, when in reality it was actually 9:00am. However, by covering the windows efficently and blocking out all of the light, it helped us to use the various lamps to create low key lighting, without over using it. Additionally, the second hardest thing we had to do whilst filming the bedroom scene was to bear in mind that we had to use multiple camera shots and camera angles in order to create a sufficient opening sequence. Luckily, we used close ups, long shots, mid shots, pan shot, areial/birdseye view shot, tracking shot as well as using high angle and low angle shots. It took us a couple of hours to film the bedroom scene as we had to do many re-takes as certain shots looked out of place or the continuity did not flow well between scenes. Thankfully, after a hard's day work we finished filming our entire opening sequence, and now we were just excited to get back to school and start the editing process.

What we still need to do as a group, is that Khushel and myself have decided to edit the opening sequence and add in any transitions or effects that we believe are necessary to our film seqeuence, whilst Nimesh and Viraj are going to be creating the title sequences for our film. We'v decided that as a group were going to create the soundtrack together so that we can all make suggestions and decide what sounds best and what coincides well with the opening scene.