Editing the First Draft

In our group we all realised that we needed to be more organised and plan our out time so that we had plenty of time to re shoot and make suitable changes if we aren't happy with how our thriller has turned out. We realised that after the second time of shooting we didn't have as much time as we would have liked to edit our thriller and make the changes which we wanted to. However we still tried to get as much done as possible. Our group spent a lot of time deciding on what to do regarding the transitions, we used a lot of quick cuts, as they are conventional of a thriller opening sequence. We also used a fade at the beginning between the gravestone and the establishing shot of the church. Also adding in the titles we decided on a font and how they will interact with the scene. After the group decided we uploaded our first draft onto Youtube then uploaded it onto our blogs.

Second Shooting

Because the first set of shots which we collected from Tutbery castle weren't as good as what we wanted them to be we decided to re-shoot to get better shots to add to our thriller. As Tutbery Castle is hard to get to regulary as it is a fair drive away from us, we had to think twice about shooting there and just changing our location totally. After brainstorming other places which we could use, where the storyboard could stay the same instead of having to make changes to the actual story as well as the location. We decided to go for Attenborough Church to re-shoot our thriller as it is local to us so it is easy to get to if we need to go back again in future.

New location

Even though we hoped to set our thriller at Tutbery castle as we thought the shots would be really effective, however because the shots didnt work, we decided to go for a local church, which although isn't the same as Tutbery would still collect some effective shots. As the church was locked we couldn't collect any inside shots from the church, this creates some problems as the mise en scene is obvious if set somewhere else than a church. The inside shots we did at Emma's house and we did birds eye view shots so we didn't get the background in so it wasnt obvious of where we were, and that we werent in a church.

Props

The props that we used included a candle, the matches which are next to it in the photo we will use to light the candle. The ouija board which is shown in our story board will be a quick flash shot with a glass running over it. There will also be a simliar shot for when the table tipping. The picture bottom left is the table that we will use for this. The final photo of the glass will be in numerous shots when they run over the ouija board and the table.