Shooting

Once we had decided that we were going to base our thriller in the boiler room and had completed our story board we began to shoot our thriller. When choosing which shots to make in the boiler room, we always wanted to make sure that the victims vunerability was constant throughout, whether it be a long shot of the whole room or an
extreme close up off her face.

When shooting the scene at the end our thriller we wanted to have a quick shot of the victim once she had been murdered. After shooting our other scenes in the boiler room we decided to search the school grounds for a place to take this shot. We found a hole that had already been dug in the ground due to building work on the school site and decided to get a shot of Paige (playing the victim) laying inside the hole. It worked well as the hole looked like a partly dug grave, a good place for the body to be hid in.

We also took shots of Paige laying front down on a flower patch but we thought that this looked too typical for a thriller and we wanted something quirky and original for our last shot.

We then moved onto the playground where we came up with the idea of having a shot of Paige in the middle of a target painted on the floor. Not only does this symbolise the fact that she is a target of murder but also represents her vunerability, as these sorts of details are featured on a playground to attract children.

We made other shots of Paige in various positions such as laying amongst a net we found on the playground, on a bag of sand in a building site setting, underneath a tree, amongst bushes and on a mound of grass and mud.

Out of all these shots we found that the one of Paige face down in the mud was the most sucessful and decided to use this in our thriller.

Mollie Duncan