Location: Tolworth Warehouse - 15th February 2010

We spent the following week gathering up different ideas but with 2 story lines in mind we decided it would be best to go to the warehouse first to look at the building as a whole such as the different rooms, offices, the massive fridge with he automatic doors and etc. We also had check what was possible for us film within the space and what other props we would need. We thought this location was perfect forWe all met up on Saturday and got a lift down to the warehouse were we made a video diary as evidence and to give us an idea of the overall location. This was useful as we used the video diary and storyboards alongside each other to plan the opening sequence in as much detail for when we were ready to film. We experimented with some props that we brought and even dressed up in suits to gain better view of the overall genre convention, the idea that there are these men in suits suggests there's something going on, perhaps an illegal drug deal or a kidnapping? We wanted to leave the suspense with the audience.

Warehouse:










Hard at work!
Muhammed and Hedley were acting in the film while Iklas and Aliya directed using a personal video camera. Mohedene Masri was another actor who agreed to be in the film and come down to the warehouse to shoot a few scenes as we needed more variety within the cast. Muhammed wore a plain lack suit along with a mask to add to the idea that its secret and no one really knows what going on. We wanted to leave the rest to the audiences imagination and allow them to ask questions and wonder what is happening and why?












We went to the warehouse without any intentions to film scenes for our opening but we found a boiler room which we automatically thought would be perfect for the film so we started to get everything in place and began to experiment with close ups, over the shoulder shots and other camera angles but found that it wasn't recorded at such a great quality because it was hand held and not on a tripod. Once we finished recorded we went back to school the following day to look back at the footage we had. We noticed some minor mistakes such as i mentioned before, the camera was hand held and therefore shaky at times. Another error was that at one point we had left the night mode on, this left a really bad grainy effect on the video. From this we learnt that for future references when we might go to film again we have to take into consideration the mistakes we made to prevent them from happening again. Overall we believe it was a good learning process and gave us some insight into what to expect from the warehouse as a whole in order to improve for when we came to film the real opening.