Filming Evaluation

The filming of our thriller opening went well, the location was perfect for the opening and worked really well for the story, there were also parts of the location we had no planned to film in that when we got there found looked really good for the story as well as the main location, such as the area of land that we used for the flash back, which was a small walk from the church but showing the church in the background helped us to link the flashback to the church much more than we had originally planned to do.

The actor that we had worked well for the part, he played it well and suited what we needed him to do. I also this that the costumes worn suited our 1960's theme.

Some problems that we came across when filming were:

• The weather- We found that the icy and snowy conditions were quite difficult to film in as we had not planned for them, we found it hard to stand the camera at a steady angle in the snow, and also because of the snow it was difficult to get to some parts of the church that would have been good to film in and it was also quite difficult to film some of the running shots as, because of the ice it was hard to get the speed that we needed for the running shots. 

• Battery Life- Another problem that we had was the battery life on the camera, at the beginning of the day it was fully charged but with all the shots we took the battery ran out quite quickly and so we found it hard to get some extra shots from different angles of some of the different scenes. 

• Organisation- We also had some problems with actors, some of the people that we had planned to act in our opening, on the day couldn't do it and so we had to find actors that could step in. This worked out well for us in the end, but we could have been more organised in making sure that all the actors could come on the day. 

Over all I think that the filming went really well and we got a good number of shots. The location working really well for us, and our group worked really well together each putting in our own opinions in how we thought each shot could be improved.

I also during the filming went around taking some photos of the location, inside and outside of the church of the landscape and some of the graves and stain glass windows, these photos turned out well and we are planning on working them into our thriller opening. Flashing them in as it plays through to create a more interesting and tension building effect.