1. The initial first couple of days were solely us as a group sitting round a table discussing different possible idea’s for our short film. We came to the conclusion of doing the hybrid genre of a psychological thriller very quickly as all of our initial idea’s fell into to this category. As the lessons went on, we slowly came to and agreed on an idea, which we then storyboarded.
2. The next step in our project was one of research and blogging, the entire group has contributed numerous amounts of blog posts and have done their fair share of research, to help improve our knowledge of the genre of a short film. Our posts included the questions: What is a short film? What are the codes and conventions of a short film? What are the codes and conventions of a psychological thriller? Etc... Other posts were of our previous blogs from year 12 and several textual analyses of other short films, the short films we decided to analyse are “About a Girl” “Doodlebug” and “Doll House”.
3. The following task was the actual filming; we went to several different locations hunting out the appropriate setting for our film. In the end we situated at Shenfield Park as we decided this was a realistic setting that would fit our story. Other locations were Tom’s sister’s bedroom and a small dark out house in Justine’s garden. When arriving at the outhouse we had to completely re-arrange the room as there were DVD’s and a sofa in there. We then covered the floor and window in newspaper to darken the room, we stuck photos of our characters up on the wall and then we were finally ready to shoot. All the shooting went well and we achieved all the shoots we wanted. This will be described in more detail in our filming diary.
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