Thriller Filming & Editing

We were asked to create a mini thriller, involving two people playing a card game. We used props such as: guns and cards.

The camera work could have been improved by using various different types of angles and shots. In our thriller our shots consisted of, close ups, mid shots and long shots. Some of the long shots did not work as well as wanted.

The editing of the filming was easy but quite time consuming. It made us realize how hard it is to sequence and position what shot you want with what. Our short film was quite vague therefore doesn't make that much sense.

Mise en scene is important because we couldn't find a good location that was suitable enough to film.

We tried to create an element of suspense by putting an extreme close up of the guns, of which the other character is unaware of the other person's possession of the gun. I think this created some sort of suspense in the thriller.

A successful part of our thriller is that we followed the 5 second shot before filming giving us time to cut the appropriate scene that we wanted.

I don't think we have used conventional thriller extracts as it was just a very basic filming of a card game.

I think that if our group work together, we can create a very successful and interesting thriller movie.