Reflections on the filming process

The research we did before we started any filming was an important part of the process. It taught us more about the thriller genre and its sub genres so we could decide what sub genre we wanted to use. From our research we liked the idea of doing a Film Noir. The research we did into this was important because it taught us the typical codes and conventions that Film Noir use so that we could use them in our own work.

From the research we started the planning process. We made mind maps to help organise our ideas and lay them out in a way so we could see our ideas and review them to decide which idea was the best to use. We chose the cinema idea from our mind map to use as the narrative for our opening however, the narrative changed a lot throughout the process to suit our settings we had and our characters so we didn't stick to the original idea, it had to be adapted. Storyboarding was important because it helped us to lay out the sequence of our opening in detail however, we didn't make our storyboard very detailed which meant we had to redo it a couple of times so we had a more detailed plan to refer to when we were filming. During the filming process we didn't refer to our storyboard much to help us which probably slowed us down when filming as we didn't stick to a set plan, we hadn't organised the shots we were going to use so we were making up what we were doing more on the spot instead of referring to a detailed storyboard. We also practised shot we could use, which we had learnt are conventions of film noir like the dutch tilt, so we could try to include them in our opening to make it look effective.