On Wednesday, 25th January, we were on set filming our thriller which we had prepared for in advance. The first task we needed to achieve was making to go into our container so that when it came to filming, the girl wouldn’t be seen by the audience. The container was fairly big, therefore we had to find and make as many boxes as possible; we managed to acquire around sixty boxes which filled the container right up to the top. These boxes came in many different shapes and sizes, so we had to divide them up into piles; large, medium and small. Having done that, we then had to turn them inside out so we wouldn’t recognise the ‘tescos markings’ because it would seem more rational if the marks on the boxes were all the same, as they’re from the same company. After cutting the boxes, and turning them inside out so there were no marks, we stuck the sides back together by using duck tape. There was a slight issue when it came to the duck tape as we didn’t provide enough to start with because there were more boxes than we intended there to be. In the end, we solved the problem and asked nicely for a member of staff to collect some more duck tape from a local shop. Making these boxes and sorting them out into different sizes took us a long time, in fact almost all day because we had to stack them all up into the container as well which took a while.
We changed the story board last minute as we came up with a new idea in our thriller which was filming a man at a desk on a laptop searching laptops on ebay. This tells the audience that there must be laptops in those boxes in the container. The shot we used for this was a tracking shot because we wanted to see him on the laptop and see that he’s in a factory, and see the workers unloading the boxes all in one shot, which we managed to accomplish. Also by using a tracking shot, it helps build the suspense which was what we were planning on achieving. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to do the point of view shot from the girl’s perspective inside the container; nonetheless, we didn’t really feel the need to do it as we had taken plenty of other different, interesting shots from all different angles. However, we did decide to get inside the car and film a shot from the backseat’s perspective of the girl being dragged out the container, because we felt that created more of an ominous atmosphere, although we may or may not use it. We shot a close up of the car wheel and some of the door so when Adam, our actor, came out of the car, we could merely see his feet, which I thought created a mysterious effect as we don’t know who it is yet.
The effect we were going for in our shoot was thriller, and this relates to target audiences for thrillers because people will find that when the girl has been revealed once all the boxes have gone, she will give them all a fright as it’s unexpected and she is looking rather beaten up from perhaps where she previously was. Our target audience are people from around the age of eighteen up to the age of fifty-ish because most people of that age will have sympathy for this poor, drugged up girl who has been trapped in a container for over three days.
We had all day to set up because we didn’t start filming till the evening as we needed it to be dark in order to create a more thrilling, and spooky atmosphere. During the day, we decided to set up in the studio because it was slightly wet outside and we couldn’t afford the boxes to get wet as the marks which we spray painted on would have come off or smudged.
As the sky became darker, and we had prepared the set, nearly ready to start filming, we rounded up our actors and did their costumes and makeup. Finding costumes for our two box workers was easy because all they needed to wear were boiler suits and perhaps a hood to make them seem more frightening. Putting makeup on Izzy, who played the girl, was slightly more difficult because we didn’t want to overdo it and make her look like she has been abused or gang raped. So we decided to put on a few bruises here and there, and around her forearm so it suggests she’s been drugged with class A drugs such as heroin. We used fake blood to give a more realistic impression, because the girl may have hit her head on something hard when she was being taken, or it could have been someone else blood, or she could have been scratching herself vigorously till she bled. There are many reasons why we used fake blood and bruising.
For our lighting, we used a big over head light because we were filming in the dark and we wanted to be able to see all the different shadows as it created an ominous feel to it. Whenever a film has been filmed in the dark, it always seems to form more fear for the audience and this is because in the dark you can’t see what’s going on, or where you are. You feel isolated, vulnerable and weak in the dark, especially when you’re the victim in the film. However, if its pitch black, it will be impossible for the audience to see what’s happening, so we decided to use a big strong light, almost factory like because the scene is set in a factory where boxes are filled with laptops.
Overall, our shoot day was promising and as a group we worked really well together and all contributed to the sequence.
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