The Stabbing

10/02/10
We went to Surbiton to a location Anthony suggested, a narrow dark alleyway lit by street lamps, which we believed fit the atmosphere for Anthony's stabbing really well. During the filming process we used the new expensive camera for the first time which caused some difficulties. We got the camera out at first and it started snowing so we packed up and waited for an hour, then we unpacked it again and it started to snow again so we had to cover the camera and wait, eventually the snow went away and we could start. We tried to close off both ends of the alleyway so no one would get in the shot, and so that Anthony and his killers were alone making the atmosphere more tense. We believe that this would add to the fear of the scene. Also we tried to create a build up to the stabbing, getting closer and closer to anthony to try and create excitement for the audience.

We used another actor to play Anthony's murder, he was a black teenager, we used him because we found through researching other films such as AdULTHOOD and the news we felt that knife crime in London involved black people more then white people. We also used Youssef as the murderer to see who looked best. We tried to do a point of view shot of the murderer stabbing Anthony, but we found it difficult to do this and hold the camera steady.
We then tried to do an over the shoulder shot of another person as the murder with his hood up so that the audiance does not know who the murderer is, trying to keep the audience in suspense through out the rest of the film.