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MONDAY: 08/09/14

For the first day of our film production the group and i compiled our thoughts and ideas on what makes a great thriller movie. One of the ideas is that genres and emotions such as fear and suspense is what gives ‘Thriller’ it’s excitement. Some argue that ‘thriller’ is more of a sub-genre rather than a film genre, a controversial debate which inspired our film idea. To produce a horror based movie introduction with a ‘thrilling’ theme.

TUESDAY: 09/09/14

On the second day. We brainstormed our ideas, and began creating our production list; which involves detailing about our venue and casting. As a part of my group works in that department a partner and I decided to write up the plot (including character names and their personality). Also taking in consideration the setting the character’s must be in to stimulate the ‘thriller’ excitement and genre.

THURSDAY: 11/09/14

On the last day of our planning, our group decided to set up all the props and equipment we needed, including certain apparels; also making sure our venue is safe to film on with no obstruction (weather etc.). Finalizing our plot and character dialogues was our next move, understanding where the story is heading, and what intentions we hope to create to engage the audience. Being assigned to our camera number and memory card we started to film early. After arriving at our setting to fictionalize our film intro we found out that the memory card was full, and therefore weren't able to film. Due to the lack of time we had left, we decided instead to go through the script, and film another time where appropriate.

FRIDAY: 12/09/14

This was our final shooting day, with minimal time to shoot our film, we recorded as soon as possible. Luckily everything was set according to plan and no mistakes occurred during our filming time. We went back to class as soon as we can, and started the editing process. During this process we came across many issues with the editing programmes which lagged time. This happened many times throughout the period, although certain arrangements with the videos, and cutting the unnecessary scenes from our filming were made there wasn't enough time to complete, and thus we have to finish bits of it at home, in preparation for next week, in which we have to prepare for exhibition. 

FRIDAY: 19/09/14

Today was exhibition day. Struggling to put through our movie file to a shared document, we had to do the conversion process once more. Running out of time to go through our film, checking whether the audio and edits are in place, we decided to leave that step. In the last moments of our lesson time, the group and i panicked as we had no movie to display. When the conversion was completed, it was only then did we find out that the movie couldn't be found anywhere in the school's shared documents. Fortunately our teacher decided to spare us more time by letting the other groups go first in displaying their films. During this time, thankfully our video was recovered from the documents, and from there our film was exhibited. We were given a sheet of paper that was boxed and labelled in terms of the 'oscar's awards' to mock-up the film awards ceremony. We had to nominate the other groups and decide which of the awards category did they achieve (for example 'best picture') giving a reason why.