Response to feedback

we agree with all of the soundtrack comments and will work on it and take help from what was said. however we disagree with the mise-en-scene comment because they meant it about the costumes and we wanted the costumes to use imagery.
to respond to the comments we will create a sound track with tension building in all of the parts said.
it is important to get feed back from your target audience when producing a film because we need to know what we did right to appeal to the audience and what could be changed.

Test Footage For Thriller

We filmed some test shots for our thriller. We didn't film in the location we are going to use in our thriller, but it is a Forest location.
When we film our real film opening we will not film the killers face otherwise it will give away the identity of him.

shot list

shot 1- establishing shot. a shot of the computer screen and keyboard. props- computer in computer room.

shot 2- medium shot. the girl from waist up sitting in a chair typing on the computer. props- computer in computer room. Actors- the girl.

shot 3- close up of the "antagonists" hands typing on the keyboard. you will also be able to see the screen as well.

shot 4- extreme close up of the computer screen with the words of the conversation.

shot 5- long shot of the bench that the girl will later meet the killer on.

shot 6- a long shot again of the girl and the bench.

shot 7- a long shot of the girl running away from the killer. it will also be a point of view shot from the killer.

shot 8- close up of the "antagonists" legs, seeing the "protagonist" running away. you will also be able to see his weapon (a baseball bat)

shot 9- medium shot of the girl in the forest, you can see the man in the distance.

shot 10- medium shot of the "antagonist" holding the baseball bat in a threatening way, also you will be able to see his top, which we have decided will have a shark on it to represent danger.

shot 11- the same as shot 9.

shot 12- same as shot 10.

shot 13- medium shot of girl fallen over in the mud with the antagonist in the background.

shot 14- same as shot 12.

shot 15- medium shot of the girl getting up off of the floor after she had fallen over.

shot 16- close up of the girls feet as she runs through the forest away from the "antagonist"

shot 17- extreme close up of the girls foot in the mud and the credits begin to appear.

shot 18- medium shot of the "protagonist" hiding behind the tree from the "antagonist". you can see the antagonist in the far background.

shot 19- medium shot of the girl hiding again but this time you cannot see the man in the distance.

shot 20- medium shot again of the girl peeping round the corner of the tree and you can see the mans feet behind a tree in the distance.

shot 21- again a medium shot but this time the killers hand is closer to her and on her shoulder grabbing her.

shot 22- another medium shot but the killers hands are round her as they grab her.

shot 23- close up of the killers hands around her mouth and the girl being pulled out of the screen by the killer and she disappears.

shot 24- a close up of the blood splattering across the tree.

Planning for filming!

Costume

Girl

Dressed in t-shirt and skinny jeans because she is just an average girl who we want the audience to relate to and therefore wear things normal girls her age would wear.

Man

Dark clothes, jeans, jumper with a shark on, this

shows he has a dark character.

Props

we'll need a Computer/keyboard for the beginning with the instant messaging sequence,also we'll need Fake blood to put on the trees at the end which will have to be chocolate sauce/ketchup or just fake blood from a shop. Also were gonna need a baseball bat for the man to hold to scare the audience.

Lighting-effect and

equipment?

We'll be using natural light that there is on the day, if the weather is bad we may not film so we dont damage the equipment. There for we wont need lighting equipment.

makeup/hair

The girl will have her make up and hair as any girl her age would have it so that this helps the audience to relate to her.

list of equipment

Computer

camera

tripod

baseball bat

times and dates you want to film including a back up plan.

10th February onwards (lessons frees)

back up plan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

locations (maps and photos suitability?)

Forest/field on long road

actors ( with images and suitability for character role)

Sam Wick/

Grace Mooney

Charlotte Baker

production roles - camera, actor, directors, producer, production co-ordinator etc. (provide definitions and assign roles to group members- suitability?)

Girl-Charlotte

Man- Sam/Grace

Olivia/Grace -Filming

test photos/ footage

analyses of thriller openings

Heat.

There is a slow establishing shot of the beginning. Sound effects of hospital environment were heightened, this makes it seem more intense and puts the viewer in the environment. Also the editing sped up when he entered the hospital.

No country for old men

No sound to begin with this makes it seem rural and isolated. The narrative is a police officer talking about quite personal things that have happened. There are simple establishing shots and different angles of the strangulation, it focuses on the faces and this builds tension. you can also hear the wind above anything in some shots which make the shots feel more rural and isolated also.

Carlitos way

This begins with a man being shot which is against the convention because this happens at the end. Also its filmed in black and white until he sees the 'paradise' poster which is in colour which emphasizes this is his dream.

Sin City

The Sin City music is very much like thriller music beacuse of the long bass and the diffrent sounds what make you feel intimadated.

Also the way the writing is in red gives the effect of blood. In our short film we are could to use red writing to give the effect of blood.

BrainSTORM!!!!!!!

Macro elements of our thriller:
to start with only have us three girls in our group, so if we do the story line we want to do we will have to not show the face of one of the characters.
for the narrative we have decided to base it on Hard Candy where a girl and man meet on an internet chat room. will we use this as our title sequence, with the writing on the screen. then they will meet up and we'll have them running through the forest. we have decided to only have 2 characters because we have 3 in our group and need to be able to film. so because we're all girls we will have to have one of us wearing lots of clothes and masculine things to make them look more like a man.
the atmosphere will be dark and uncertain because of the fact that it is a thriller. when we are in the forest it will be darker than out in the open because the trees will hide the light which will hel to set the scene.

our ident

we didn't have time to do some of the things we wanted to do for example we wanted to add sound to the bear and we wanted to get the bear to move around then shrink to place.

Secret Window

This move follows the rules of thriller.
The movie is filmed in such a way you don't no who done what or what is coming next this is a good concept of thriller

Subgenres

Genres commonly associated with film can be broken down into sub-genres. For example, films within the thriller genre can also be classed as a cross of two genres. For example:

- Supernatural thriller - eg Paranormal Activity
- Action thriller - eg The Fast And The Furious
- Romantic thriller - eg Fatal Attraction
- Crime thriller - eg Godfather
- Sci fi thriller - eg Star Trek

The genre of a film is not set in stone; films can be a hybrid of two or more genres. An example of this is Batman, a Action/Crime thriller.


Paranormal activity

Paranormal activity is a Supernatural thriller. The film contains many elements associated with a thriller, but also takes ideas from the supernatural genre, such as ghosts/spiritsthere are lots of little sub genres within the main genre of thriller. to start with there is the supernatural thriller where there is usually creatures that are not real involved. for an example of this sub genre there is paranormal activity. another sub genre is crime thriller which involves detectives, an example of a film which fits in this genre would be Seven. Sci Fi thriller would be Star trek. there is also drama thriller, action thriller and romantic thriller. the Sci Fi and action thrillers are now a lot easier to make because of the technology.

when it comes to deciding what we want to do for our thriller, we will have to take all of the sub genres into account and choose which one ours falls under.

Sound-

It starts silent and then the steady beat builds up to the main event. It creates tension because it represents a heartbeat.Then it stops and you hear a girl screams to show that she is scared. Then when it has a shot of the room you hear the music start again and the sound of liquid blasting out of somewhere. You hear a strange noise which creates a sense of superstition. Next a woman enters the room and screams to reinforce the horror.

Mise-en-scene-

Firstly he is on a bed and watching television, listening to music and wearing a football shirt which is a representation of the stereotypical teenage boy. the lighting is low because it is a small desk lamp- it shows that it is night time which helps set the scene because it is darker. also the fact that he is watching tele makes him unaware of what is going on.

then the creatures arms appear and pull the boy down through the bed. the blood then shoots through the bed which represents horror.

camera work

the camera work starts with zooming out to show that the boy is in his bed doing his activities. it then cuts to a mid shot of when the boy is pulled under.

Welcome

our group members-

Charlotte, Olivia and Graceeeeee :D