We planned to shoot our microdrama at Ben's house , a member of our group, and we planned to use up a whole day to shoot it, because as it was a microdrama it shouldn't of take as long as a normal film would and we already had most of it planned and ready so all that needed to do was shoot it.
We didn't have many problems organising the shoot as we just communicated over mobile networking and organised a time and place for the shoot. However straight away we encountered a few problems during the shooting. For example, our arrival scene was next to a busy road, even though there wasn't any dialogue at this point in the film we still wanted to get an extreme long shot which meant crossing over the road and waiting for no cars so we could get the house and the characters in the frame. Another problem we had was the lighting because some of the rooms in the house were dark so we attached a hand held torch to the camera, also we had the problem of natural lighting as it was getting dark sooner because we're in winter so we had to get all the day scenes filmed quickly before it got dark. Also we obviously couldn't get hold of real blood for the slasher scene so on the day we used our creativity skills and used a fake blood recipe to create some blood.
With assigning roles we all thought it was best to let George film most of the difficult scenes as he had the most experience with camera work, so this meant that as we were all involved in the acting we had to change it round so that George's character was killed first, and also at the start of the microdrama when all the characters but the killer were in shot we had the killer, Jake, to film it which worked well, we also had a tripod and a rode dead cat microphone to make it look better on the panning scene and stability also with the dead cat microphone it helped to not pick up any unwanted sound.
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