On Thursday we began our filming for our title sequence to a thriller, we arrived at our location in Radlett at about 4.45pm when we got to our location we had an option of 2 rooms to film in, one of them was more classic and old fashion than the other with stained glass lamp shade from the 1970's and a small fireplace with an antique style rug on the floor. The other was a more open room, more modern with grand furniture however yet again contained a fire place.

As a group, we decided that it was best to film in the first room because this was more of a scene we were trying to create set in history.

We also decided that due to the male actor not being able to attend the filming session on this particular day and that we had to film on this day because this was the only day we could do, we decided it was best to only film one scene where there is a shadow of the girl getting abused by the father on the wall. We had to have one of our group members to act in this scene as the face was not visible and this was the only way to get this scene done.

We were each assigned to roles, Nicky was filming, Rebecca was doing the lighting for the scene, Anneliese was doing the directing and i was doing the acting, playing the role of the father.

Throughout the duration of the filming, we found that the shadows on the wall were very hard to create due to the size of the room and the power of the light.

One main problem which we had was the amount of time we had to film, we all found that it took much longer than expected to set up the scene and all the lighting and furniture as we desired. All together this probably took the best part of 40 minutes and this wasted alot of time and left us with only 30 minutes to film.

Another problem we had was that we wanted to make the abusing look real but obviously we cannot due to the fact that we are using a 6 year old girl as the daughter. What we had to do was, once my hand was on the girls face, i had to push her head to the side, then in editing, we will make it look as if i am actually hitting her on the cheek because we will speed the scene up.

The shadows on the wall were very effective because it gave it a feel as if it was a flashback which is what we are trying to achieve. There were also many good points about the scene, such as the furniture was older furniture which helped us create the time period we were aiming for. The lighting was exactly what we wanted with the lamp shades being old style.

Hopefully, this week we are going to film on Tuesday and during this filming session, we intend to film the first scene where the father is laying dead on the floor and the girl is sitting there in front of him playing with her toys very innocently. For this we need to go and purchase some prosthetic blood. This is because the man will have to be lying in a pool of blood for this to make the scene more realistic otherwise the viewer may not know what is going on with a man laying there on the floor.