Our Shooting Schedule

This schedule will help us get us organised, in terms of meeting in the right places, at the right time, knowing exactly what shots need to be filmed on that particular day.

Teacher Assessment of Research Draft

Peer Assessment of Planning

character description

Alice:

She's a young girl in her early 20's, she has a good social life and goes out with friends often. Unfortunately she doesn't have a very good family life as when she moved out to find her own place she never made an effort to see them, eventually they got further and further apart until finally she stopped seeing them completely. She tends to make the wrong decisions and gets herself into trouble a lot of the time.

'Dead man':

A young business man in his late 20's who's proud of what he's achieved in life. He has a good career and is very focussed on his goals. He has a great family life but not such a good social life. This is because he lacked confidence in speaking to people throughout his childhood, making it extremely hard for him to make any friends.

props, costumes and locations

Props:


Here are a few ideas of some of the props we could use in our opening sequence. They include an old beaten up mobile phone, an old Bible and fake blood. These props would be suitable to use for a thriller as they could all relate to our story and emphasise an atmosphere of mystery to the audience.


Costume:
The dead man on the floor is wearing a black suit with blood on his shirt. This will help convey mystery to the sequence as the audience will question why the man's wearing a suit.

The girl will be wearing ripped blue jeans with blood smeared on them. She will also be wearing a white shirt with small tears in them. The audience will now think why the girls clothes are ripped and have blood on them.

Locations:
We are going to film in the St Nicholas car park in Sutton. We think this will be a good location to film in as it would be effective at creating a mysterious atmosphere for the audience. The audience will then question the significance of this setting.

These are the locations we will be using in our opening sequence. The first scene is the ST Nicholas car park in Sutton. We have chosen this location as not only does it fit in with the theme of our sequence but also because of the lighting and atmosphere it give the audience. The next location is my house. The front door will be shown in one of the shots with Alice trying to open it. The next shots re of my bathroom. Once Alice goes into the house she then goes into the bathroom to try and wash the blood off her hands.

Possible Title Fonts

Using Dafont, i began searching for title fonts that would look suitable for our opening sequence.
The majority of fonts i collected look quite distorted, which relates to the idea of the main characters
memory failing. I decided while looking through that i would collect a numeber of fonts from the typewriter
section in Dafont, i did this because i wanted the fonts to have a professional look, and some of the fonts
under other sections look somewhat unprofessional, with the titles matching each genre in the typical fashion, which i thought was too much of a cliche, e.g. a blood dripping font used for a horror film.





As a group we have decided that we will show our titles over actual footage rather than
showing them over a black background, as the sequence is only two minutes long, meaning
the sequence would be incredibly dull using this method. Although this method is interesting
as it creates the atmosphere for a film, through the use of the soundtrack, and the colour anf font
of the titles. However we will extract certain crew member responsibilities and mention them in
our sequence.




We feel as if this method is more appropriate, as it is alot more interesting for the audience
and gives the audience an idea and a feel for the film. This will allow us to create a sense of mystery
while introducing certain characters from our film. Some of the titles previously selected could be used here
while the titles showing the cast and crew and appearing in different shots. The positioning if the titles are also something to be considered. Personally i think we should have the cast and crew members appearing in the
corner of the screen in a simple typewriter font.

Animatic - Storyboard

list of props, costumes and locations

Props:


Here are a few ideas of some of the props we could use in our opening sequence. They include an old beaten up mobile phone, an old Bible and fake blood. These props would be suitable to use for a thriller as they could all relate to our story and emphasise an atmosphere of mystery to the audience.


Costume:
The dead man on the floor is wearing a black suit with blood on his shirt. This will help convey mystery to the sequence as the audience will question why the man's wearing a suit.

The girl will be wearing ripped blue jeans with blood smeared on them. She will also be wearing a white shirt with small tears in them. The audience will now think why the girls clothes are ripped and have blood on them.

Locations:
We are going to film in the St Nicholas car park in Sutton. We think this will be a good location to film in as it would be effective at creating a mysterious atmosphere for the audience. The audience will then question the significance of this setting.

The lighting in this shot makes this an effective location for our opening sequence as it's dark and would be a typical setting for a thriller.

The Cast!

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I am the group director of camera shots, as-well as being the sound guy. I will be that main person behind the camera making sure everything is framed well and looks right for our genre. I am also working on the sounds and music to our film, researching and creating the music which will ultimately set the mood for our film.



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Chris Pattwell is one of our actors and also behind the choices for our costumes and any props we may use. Costumes are very important as they need to link in with our genre and work well with what is happening in the opening sequence.



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Grace Potton will be an actor in our film and also the overall editor. The editor is important for creating the final film and by making all the shots link and work together, she will have to make all the transitions work well in between our film so that they all flow continuously.

As a group we have all decided on the set of our film because we all have to be completely comfortable with where we are filming and the overall look to our opening sequence. Also we have all decided on the titles of our opening sequence and we still have to decided on the name of our film which will be a group decision.

Initial Planning

These videos show me drawing the illustrations in the story-board, matching the setting and the shot types shown in the shot list being created by chris.



This is a slideshow showing all the shots from our storyboard. This will help us know exactly what shots are needed for each scene, and how we should frame them.

Peer Asessment

shot list

These are the shots we will use. they include mid shots, close ups and over the shoulder shots. We have also included tracking and other camera movements.

Initital ideas for shots. Have now been altered