Filming session

In this lesson we started to begin filming, as there was limited time we had to think of ideas quickly. Teddy thought of the Barbican centre as a filming location we went there and the buildings and the environment made the Barbican a great too place to film. We originally planned to film our thriller at any tube station we could find, however we had to change our plans because we did not obtain permission in time from Transport for London, it would take at least two weeks to receive an answer which could have been no. So we decided there was way too much risk without gain so we carried on.

The Barbican had much to focus on; it had a sophisticated look that we could incorporate into the thriller. In my opinion filming in the Barbican is far more beneficial to us than filming at the tube station there is more to interactive with. We finally decided who was going to do what for the project, I was going to be directing and holding the camera. Emre, Teddy and David were going to be the actors, Emre and Teddy making the briefcase swap and David is going to be waiting for Teddy to be vulnerable so he could steal Teddy’s briefcase for Emre.

The plot we originally made was still kept, three men feature in the opening and two are working together however one man is not aware of this nor does he ever see the third person. As we were filming we just decided to use all the time we had gathering different shots even if they seemed hard or nonsensical we wanted to use as much variety as possible. Although I do like filming at the Barbican there was one shot in particular we would miss, it was heavily reliant on the escalators so it was for this reason we were determined to make up for it.

We were close to finishing filming today, but we had run out of time so we had to travel back to college the only fear I have is that the snow and Ice will not last until Monday and we may have to start filming again. If this does happen I still believe we will finish filming as most of our shots do not feature ice or snow so it would be extra work but not a worst case scenario.