Some pictures from our shoot

It was pretty cramped filming in the cellar, as you can see, but somehow we managed to get 5 people, a MASSIVE tripod, and a BOOM POLE in!

This was a clever thing we did - taking screen snapshots so we could reset the scene if we needed to re-shoot. And we actually used this picture when had to re-shoot all of King's lines because we found out we weren't allowed to use the F word!

(Kingsley Ben-Adir - left, Rick Allen - right)

The two killers, looking eerily happy...


The whole cast and crew enjoying toasted bagels and coffee. It's how things work in the film business....

What we still need to shoot

• typing on the screen for both King and Amelia
• shot of forum
• King's lines from all the different angles
• King retrieving the print out
• the two men leaving together
• Re-shoot Amelia's OTS shot of her typing as it was on blogger and not our forum

That's all I can think of at the moment..

Progress report

Just thought I'd say how I think things are going at the moment.

Mostly GOOD. The footage we have at the moment will be very useful because we have filmed the same lines from about 8 different angles, and in our editing time, we have split it into groups of the same lines, which will make it really easy when it comes to editing and choosing which shots to use. Also, Mrs Thrasher said we had "masses of potential to be amazing" which is good!

We had a bit of a panic on Wednesday concerning our male actors. Originally, Holly and Amelia had volunteered to use their dads as the murderers, but after we wrote the script, neither of them wanted to use their dads because the script was "too creepy". Plus, it is Amelia's dad's 50th birthday on Saturday, one of our shoot days, and she was uncomfortable with his character perving on her character (even though it wouldn't be shown in the action, just implied to happen later). So we were stuck, two days before our shoot, with no male actors.

I asked my dad if he would do it, and he said "OK, if I have to", so now we had 1 male actor, but one more still to find. We were going to try and ask some of our guy friends, however they are all 16/17 and we wanted men because it will look more professional and make more sense if the murderers are older than their victims. Then my mum had the GENIUS idea of texting the son of a really good friend of ours, who is studying acting at "Guildhall School Of Music And Drama", one of the most prestigious of its kind. AND he looks PERFECT for the role. So I texted him, not expecting him to say yes, but he did! So we now have our two male actors, both available for Saturday, and all is good!

So now I'm really eager for Saturday's shoot as I think we are going to get some fantastic footage.

Death Toll For Internet Teen Suicides Hits 17

After the body of a teenage girl was found hanging in the woods of a Welsh village last Tuesday, media attention is once again focused on the only thing seeming to link the suicides together -- the Internet. When the body of Jenna Parry was found, it marked the 17th young suicide in just over a year near the town of Bridgend, South Wales (pictured, above). Though no evidence has been found of a suicide pact (or any sort of "cult" responsible for the series of deaths), nearly all of the victims used a social networking Web site -- similar to MySpace and the like -- called Bebo, that's popular with young British children. The string of deaths began with Dale Crole, an 18-year-old who hanged himself at an abandoned warehouse on Jan. 5, 2007. His friend David Dilling, 19, took police to the scene. Then, just a few weeks later, Dilling died the same way. A week later the boys' friend Thomas Davies, 20, hanged himself in a local park. And so it has continued. The Internet has been a recurring theme in the hangings. Most (possibly all) of the victims were members of Bebo, and many of them posted messages on the public memorial pages of those who preceded them in suicide."I'm sure they all knew each other," Ferdinand, 14, who lives near Parry's house, told Newsweek. "I knew six of them myself. I've been on some of their personal pages on Bebo, and they were talking about 'I don't think I can cope with it,' and 'I'm going to end it.' I didn't think they'd really do it." As we reported earlier this year, it's believed by some that the friends were all trying to gain notoriety with their own memorial pages. Sad to say, but the Internet has long been a breeding ground for group suicides -- just three years ago, an Oregon man was arrested for organizing a mass suicide pact -- but this is the first time that such trends have hit the social-networking space. Given that Facebook employees seem to have the ability to see whose profiles you've looked at, or keep personal profiles after they're deleted, it would follow that at least this lack of privacy would help catch potential suicides in their tracks before anything tragic occurs.

This news story shows that our plot is believable and current (using internet and social networking sites).