Planning

Genre: Thriller

Narrative:  

A girl is tied up in a chair in a dark room (light swinging overhead)                                                                                                                            

We hear a narrator speaking over the scene (non-diegetic)                                                                     

Then we hear a kettle boiling and it cuts to a breakfast scene                                                                          

The same girl is getting ready to leave  the house                                                                                                 

The girl then leaves and walks down a street

Script:                                                                                                                                                                      Narrator, “I always wanted to be a hero. Ever since I was little. Not a super hero like Wonderwoman or Catwoman, though there clothes are pretty cool. But someone that mattered, someone who had made a difference and left there mark in history. What I didn’t realise then was...........................................I would need a hero.”    

Roles of Group:                      

Adam Bennett = Sound                                        

Jess Palmer = Camera Shots                                                         

Laura Shackleton = Mise en Scene               

Joseph Elton = Editing

Shooting Schedule:                   

Tuesday 21^st February – Recording the monologue (double lesson)                               

Saturday 25^th February – Filming all shots (all day)                   

Monday 27^th February-Friday 2^nd March – Editing  (lessons, frees, lunch and after school)

Risk Assessment:               

1.Dark room , be careful when moving around.               

2.Moving in and out of buildings be careful of steps.                                                                         

3.Kitchen, be careful when using electrical appliances and boiling water, keep the camera away from water.                                                                                

4.Outside, be careful of vehicles when crossing the road, be prepared for weather-don’t get the camera wet, if icy or wet be careful of slippy surfaces.                       

5.High powered light, be wary of hot bulb. 

                                                                                                                                                                                          

Timeline

Here is the timeline for our planning stage (click to view bigger version)

     

Research

So for our research for our 2 minute opening sequence we looked at lots of different videos and were just looking at different genres. We especially liked this with the use of monologue over the top which started the film off and thought we could maybe create something with a monologue over the top.

Thriller-Action Genre Research

This type of genre seems to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Thriller films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, with similar characteristics and features.

Thrillers are often hybrids - there are lots of varieties of suspense-thrillers:

• action- or adventure- thrillers
• sci-fi thrillers (such as Alien (1979))
• crime-caper thrillers (such as The French Connection (1971))
• western-thrillers (such as  High Noon (1952))
• film-noir thrillers (such as  Double Indemnity (1944))
• even romantic comedy-thrillers (such as Safety Last (1923)

We then thought about openings to thrillers and how we could create our own opening we looked at a few and came up with a few different ideas which i will explain in the next post.

Change of idea

So after a lot of discussion we completely changed our idea as we had nowhere to film our second idea which was the warehouse.
Our new idea is somebody tied up to a chair, where we have the monologue over the top and then go back to that persons normal life and add the titles then

Our next task

Our next task is to create a 2 minute opening to any type of film we want so today we just though of ideas of what we could do. 

One idea was to create a sequence of a women going through the woods with flashes of someone after her.

Our second idea was someone dead on the floor in a warehouse/ or a car garage with police investigating, close up on different body parts where we would put the titles

Preliminary Video- Undetected

Yes we finally finished editing our preliminary and managed to come up with a name which took some time choosing, so here you go.

We managed to stick to the storyboard very well while doing this and we found that the piece of music we used is very effective in building up suspense. We edited the quick shots when the women (which is me) does the part where she is putting the memory stick and things to make it more effective.