Week 9 Group Consultation

During today’s group consultation we discussed several factors that have had major influence over our filming. As decided in last week’s meetings, we agreed that we would film tomorrow (Tuesday). On Tuesday last week we all thought this would run smoothly, however looking at the weather forecast of HAIL, we decided this really couldn’t be worse for us. More importantly upon reflection, Laura and Jackson (our editors) agreed that scrapping two characters and otherwise compromising our final outcome in order to do something that is “achievable” was stopping us from creating something more authentic and true to the script.

We have since discussed that Laura is able to source some male cast members who she knew in high school and did theatre with her, and she also suggested that we refer to the “Warrandyte Business & Community Network” on Facebook for people who post about all kinds of things, and we may find someone interested in helping us with filming. This is also very convenient as the people are all residents in the area.

In our meeting with Stayci, we discussed the process of writing a script then filming, and how we could look at this from the reverse angle – filming, then writing a script based on what we saw. For Jackson, it will be interesting to see the way we interpret his script – since he won’t be on set on the day we film, us four girls are in some ways, in charge of his baby. This conversation reminded me of the exercise we did earlier in the semester, where we took the scripts of the creative writing students and then filmed. More often than not, the result had a far different tone than what the writer had envisioned or intended.

We decided that a major intention as part of our filming was to capture what was written on paper, but also film some more dramatic shots. With sound playing as such a key element in the thriller genre, we believe that some silent shots, with non-diegetic soundtrack over the top will fit perfectly within the script itself. A key element to thriller trailers is to pose questions in the dialogue. Unrelated, short questions such as “Where are we” “How could he do this to us” type questions grab the audience’s attention and add suspense.