First Filming Session/ My House

Today was our first filming session of our final piece. As it was a tuesday, it was only our 1hr 40mins lesson. We didnt have alot of time to shoot and had to do alot in a short period of time. Thats why we decided to do the scenes in My house first as they were indoors and we would come across less interuptions.

Our intial idea was to shoot Smith at his workplace in an office somewhere but then, we decided to change that and shoot him at his safe place, at his domain. We thought that if we had him doing everyday things that we all do, and is a norm, therefore when he gets this phone call and we find out his secret that he didn't want anyone to know, it will be more of a shock.

We were able to capture this by shooting him doing regular daily things for example shaving, getting dressed, making toast and a cup of tea.

We were able to take various shots of his doing his daily routine, as well as match cuts through the house including him reading the paper and watching television.

We also pre-planned to make some props. As we knew we only had a limited amount of time to produce and end product, we realised that we would not be able to physically or verbally tell the viewer the situation and who our character is.

Therefore we decided to look back at the 'show don't tell' meaning we made up fake certificates and 'top secret, confidential, classified' sheets of paper to lay them out around the house in inconspicuously. We also had in places various credit cards and passports, as well as a briefcase all this will challenge our audience minds as they will have to use the information and clues to infer the situation in order for them to deduce some what to who our charater is, as well as the genre before the he even receives the phone call.

This will excite our viewers, and give them a vicarious thrill in feeling a part of the film and from then on they should be hooked on to our plot. I believe we executed the filming very well and now as long as we can achieve the same in editing we should be able to get our point across and challenge our viewers rather than mouth feed them the story line, which should give us an edge in originality and creativity.