Account of shooting day/locations requirements/cast/pre-production

In the morning Elly and me went to the Studio quite early and started setting a lot of the set. We got books out of the library, we got a table other props and tried to set everything up as good as possible. Then Leaya arrived and brought her laptop with which we had a bit trouble because google in which we wanted to incooperate a title suggested "written by Leaya Hatzakis" because we pressed "enter" once before. We could solve that problem relatively quickly though. Trina, our actress, went with Elly and changed and put her make-up on for our shoot. At some point we all were in the studio and started building the floor. Because we obviously wanted to have a old wooden looking floor similar to one in a typical library.

No one had a particular role in our group as Director, Editor, Lightman, Cameraman or anything. Everyone planned everything and organised the things we needed to. All of us got the opportunity to shoot some scenes and everyone also was writing a shotlist, checking the shot, rearranging the set etc.

1. Trina walks into the set and slams her books into the table. This was a close up shot, of where her books were slammed onto the table. Our first title would be placed in this shot.

2. Trina then moves the books to the side, and opens the bottom book and takes some paper and a pen. This is a mid shot, and we took this shot 3 times.

3. A close up of Trina's eyes reading, and we took this shot 2 times.

4. An over the shoulder shot of Trina writting her name on the top of a piece of paper.

5. Extreme close-up of Trina writting her name (this is our actress title) We took 2 takes of this shot, but at different zooms.

6. Tracking shot using a spider-dolly, (breaking the 180 degree rule) of Trina opening a book, then holding an iPod, then typing on Google. This shot contains 3 titles, on the library card when she opens the book, (Director of Photography), On the iPod screen, (Original Score By..), and Typed on Google, (Written By..) We took this shot 5 times, as it was a hard shot to get perfect, but by the 5th shot we got it right.

7. Extreme close-up of Google screen, With Leaya Hatzakis being written.

8. Over the shoulder shot, Highlighting Edited By Elly Sams.

9. A Tracking shot around her face, close-up.The next shots were taken in the library

10. A shot behind a book shelf, of Trina taking out books, and revealing her when the books are taken out.

11. A very low, tracking close-up of her feet walking.

12. A close-up of a book on the photo copier, being used.

We had to change our location because we shot in the studio (CONTROL ->controlled lighting, controlled baackground noises, enough space etc.) first, due to the fact the library was in use for other students who had to take their exams in the morning, and went into the library (original setting, more authentic) in the end of the day because we needed to have a proper background for the wideshots we took in the library. But this caused a few problems with continuity. So I would stay in the same location next time I'm shooting a thriller opening sequence.

What worked pretty well was the incorparation of our titles. p.e. Typing into GOOGLE, writing a name on top of a sheet, higlighting in a text, having a title on a iPod, using a Library Card to incorparate a title etc.

Trina had glasses, high-heels, a white blouse and red lipstick as outfit. This should establish the typical but hot looking librarian/researching/studying woman. All the books we chose had something to do with crime or the psyche of the human which we thought relates to resaerching about a serial killer. All the newspaper showed that Trina was researching in the past. But the audience shouldn't forget that we are still in the present which is the reason why we had a MacBook and an iPod on the table. All these props were provided by ourselves.

We chose Trina as an actress because she has long hair is not blonde because we thought that would establish a bit more intellect and cleverness rather than having the stereotype of the dumb blonde one in our video. Unfortunately, we had to experience that Trina was very calm and settled and not really stressef or frustated which was actually what we had in mind. We hope that we can change this atmosphere later in editing by putting some music in the opening sequence.

Of course we set some lighting up to ensure that the environment looks natural which worked out pretty well I think.

We recorded synchronised sound on the day and some of the sound effects are going to be enhanced with sounds from special effect banks to draw more significants to them.

What did not work out was working as a group because someone became extremely big headed and tried to take over the control of everything. I t seemed like this person wanted to shoot on it's own and not with the others together.