Day 1:Filming

The time has come for us to finally begin filming our opening to a thriller film. It started off with a bit of chaos as Ali called me to tell me to buy fake blood, so I had to leave my house and go to the store to buy it costing me three pounds WHICH I STILL HAVEN'T BEEN REPAID!! Anyway after I had acquired the fake blood Shadei then texts me to bring an onion; seriously an onion. But the real problem wasn't these minor inconveniences it was the fact that I didn't have a clue where Ponders End the place where we were meant to be filming was. Obviously, this posed a problem but I overcame it with an ingenious idea which was to simply go on the internet, find a journey planner and use it to reach Ponders End. So I hopped into the car as I had decided to go with my Auntie who suddenly decided to turn this simple filming trip into a family outing and made me go to the launderette first before taking me to Tesco where I was scheduled to meet Ali whose dad's house was pretty close, as I sat waiting for Ali to arrive I received a call from Usman who wanted to verify whether we were wearing all black. Eventually Ali arrived and we made our way to the location we had done recon on which is basically the area outside Ali's dad's house. When I arrived Shadei, her boyfriend and her cousin were already there and all we had to do was wait for Usman who had just left his house to arrive. He came about 15 minutes later and then filming began!! The first shot we filmed was the shots of the three deranged men checking their bags of tools and then throwing it into the van, these shots were repeated several times to the point that I was getting bored but eventually we moved on to start filming Shadei's walking scene which I got to film finally, I did loads of different angles such as shots from the bushes, tracking shots and even shots which followed her feet exclusively. After I had performed this part of filming then I filmed Ali putting on his mask as he revved the engine; these shots were my favourite as it was quite unique and gave the viewer a different perspective, to me it looked like a Hollywood style shot although not as good. Then came the action scene, Ali and I decided the best way to grab Shadei was to put me in the van with the camera and then let me follow the deranged men as they grab Shadei. It took several tries to get this right but according to Mr Sim at least one of them worked which I am pleased with; this shot was the last ones we did as guess what? Just as we were getting on a roll, the camera died which was great just GREAT! So that cut short our first filming day and left us with some shots to do at a later date.