Filming has begun, and finally our thriller is genuinely on its way in a medium other than pencil and paper. It's nowhere near finished by any means, we got maybe about a third of all the footage we need on Monday, which was when we decided to get all the night shots sorted before we dare to figure out a convenient time for all three of us to shoot during the day. It wasn't entirely perfect - a few shots were too dark, too shaky, too... weird, etc, etc. But I was surprised at how much the shots that DID work worked.
It was a bit of a stroke of luck that the setting turned out as well as it did, as I had a fairly pessimistic idea that we'd get to this underpass that only George had seen before today and it would be somehow totally unsuited. But it actually turned out alright, except for maybe the fact that most of the shots of oneself mincing along less-than-coolly towards the underpass were so dark that you could barely tell what was happening, and turned out to be what I think were the worst shots attained during the brief shooting period. But apart from that it was swell - it had the brightly-lit Clockwork Orange quality that looked pretty sweet on camera.
However, shooting the sequence has made me realise that plotwise, the film is less than fantastic, since the murder involved in this location would never, ever work and turned out to be totally ridiculous and nonsensical. Why would you shoot a guy in the face in some brightly-lit and frequently-travelled pathway after standing around waiting in a balaclava and holding a gun outside for ages waiting for him to turn up? It doesn't make a great amount of sense, sure, but hey, we can work with it. I just hope people will get their heads around the rest of the plot - office worker by day, killer by night and such. Far-fetched doesn't even cover it.
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Fear not! - plenty of decent thrillers have far fetched plots. You guys have done well to capture some pretty atmospheric night shots. Good work all of you - and well done George for scouting the location (Will - you should have more faith in your comrades :) Now get cracking and capture the rest of your footage so you can get down to some serious editing where your work can really come to life.
Get your storyboards posted too..
I am quite sure your plot is the same as every other thriller ever filmed (only better..). The best thrillers dont make any sense until the very end -thats why its called a thriller. Stick with it Charley & Co, it may seem to be "nonsensical" at first but in the best sense of thriller, it will all come together at the end!!
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