Real Location Recce

Due to not being able to film on the location of our original set near Greenwich station in an unexpected dangerous construction site, we resulted to looking around locations nearer to our own homes.

We decided to go into Dartford town centre and came across the Gala Bingo Hall located on Spital Street, Dartford. Due to the Bingo Hall being shut down and bought by Net Church, we were able to contact the Church and ask for permission to film in the cellar and basement of the newly bought building. This fit our theme and plan for our Thriller film even better than our original location which was really important for us to match. We went down to the basement and cellar for our recce and we noticed it was primal, dirty, dark and frightening - which is significant for the set and design of where our hostage is going to be temporarily held. Another positive for us was that the whole building was being reconstructed apart from the basement, meaning we had no disruption for the filming of our recce and our actual filming. 

This is the outside view of where we filmed our location recce and also where we shall be filming our Thriller film 'The Sacrificial Lamb'.

Original Location Recce

We visited the location of our original planned location recce... but an unexpected occurrence happened - the building construction site was active and rather hazardous as there was at least 3 large drills, cranes and also wet muddy floor on the whole of the site. This immediately put us in the position of not being able to use to site for protection and safety of our equipment, cast and production team. The risk assessment influenced our decision of abandoning this location. 

Script

This is the short exchange of dialogue which will occur in our thriller opening sequence between the female assassin and the male victim.

We had to cut down the length of our script as we realised that we had too much dialogue for an opening scene; we reminded ourselves that it was the opening scene and that too much couldn't be revealed as we need to grab the audience's attention by increasing the enigma codes but minimising what is revealed in the 3 minute opening sequence.

Test Run

 Needs to be uploaded & edited (trimmed & sound effects) with description 

Shot List

This is our shot list. It shows each shot (in the correct order) that needs to filmed to create our desired thriller opening sequence. The shot list will help make sure we shoot all the shots and will help use to shoot them correctly as initially planned. As we are now more prepared with this shot list, it should enable things to run smoothly on the days of filming and allow them to be shot easily and quickly without any hesitation or incorrect filming. 

Production Schedule

This is our production schedule for our planned Thriller opening scene. The '/' are the days which we must exclude due to some of our actors or production team not being able to make the date. However, the blank dates are the days which we can all make so that filming can go ahead. As the production crew, we must arrange dates of which all the cast and crew can do so that we can be organised with timing and dates ahead. 

We have the Christmas half term to complete our filming and also 2 weeks after this deadline so that errors can be edited and re-filmed if necessary.

Assets List

We have created an asset list in a mind map format to show everything that we will need on the days when we are filming. The list will ensure that when the day of the filming arrives we will be fully prepared and not forget any important piece of equipment or props.

We have separated our assets into 4 groups; Equipment (which us as a production team need to bring), Props (which we as a production team needs to bring), Female Actor's Props (which our female actor Jasmine Wrapson needs to bring) and Male Actor's Props (which our male actor Shivam Patel needs to bring).