Reflection on our filming process

Before our filming process we had to research the thriller genres. It taught us about the different thriller conventions and it's sub genres. We looked into detail to sub genres, as a group we decided to look into film noir thrillers, we liked the the concept to a film noir thriller as it is shot in black and white, we had to research its conventions, camera angles, shots, lighting and more. The research stage is important because it gathers our information together and we can adapt it making it better.

After our research stage, we started our planning process. There were many difficulties to this stage, this is because as a group we all had to decide what our storyline was going to be, we changed our storyboard numerous of times, however we eventually all agreed to one. Our planning process included mind mapping, spider diagrams and storyboarding. Our original ideas was originally filmed at a cinema as our narrative for our opening however we didn't stick to this plan as the narrative changed a lot throughout the process to suit our setting. Storyboarding was important, by planning each shot before hand, we can understand what we are aiming to achieve and have something to build on, also we wrote on the back of each shot what camera angles and shots we were going to use so we wouldn't forget to film them, whether the angles should be a upwards angles or a downward angle,whether the actors she be positioned in a close-up, medium or long shot. However we planned out the storyboard quite well we didn't use it much as it slowed down our filming process, we were making up what we were doing more than looking at the storyboard.