Shooting Schedule and location permission

Shooting schedule

This is our shooting schedule. From this we can use the table to go to the locations that we are shooting at and that we know when we are going to be shooting. Also from this we are able to decide where we are going to meet so that we can go as a team to the location. It also tells us what actor is going to be needed on that day so that there are no problems that are going to happen. The table shows us the date/time, shot numbers, location, actors, props\costume, crew, equipment and notes.

location permission 
This is a form that as a group that we have made which will give us permission to use the locations that we need to use.

Casting and character discription.

This is a prezi showing the what the main character Aidan is going to wear when he is at school and when he is left his home and going out to meet someone but then returns home because of what he has heard. when he is at school it shows that he is in smart but casual clothes and when he get home and gets changed he is dressed in Goth clothes as this is the type of person he wants to be.

script

Script

Between the two agents.

 FOREST WALK

          Aidan walking through the forest as in the background he
          walks past 2 men who are discussing a very important and
          dodgy happening

                              DAVE WILCOX
                    "What are we doing here? its all
                    wet and disgusting!"

                              STEVE ROMAN
                    "You don't wanna get found out do
                    you! Now listen.... 'He' is in my
                    house, he needs to be buried....
                    Alive to make our point."

                              DAVE WILCOX
                    "Wait! .... do you think that kid
                    has heard us?"

                              STEVE ROMAN
                    "No, nobody will listen to him
                    anyway, he's one of the mental
                    ones."

          RADIO SWITCHING ON

          Aidan walks up to the radio and switches it on, and on it is
          a radio broadcast of the news about a major person who has
          been abducted by unknown hooligans and they need any
          information that could help.

                              RADIO NEWS BROADCASTER
                    "...(manche)ster News, Breaking
                    news this afternoon we have just
                    heard reports from the police that
                    prince harry has been abducted by 2
                    renegaded anti-royalist campaigners
                    who are believed to be wealthy
                    members of the community.
                    if anybody has any information at
                    all on the matter go see your local
                    police chief. In oth(er news)...."
                   


This is a rough copy of what the actors are going to say. This is the only bit of speech that is said during the opening sequence from what they are going to say we want it to make the audience think and ask question. The questions that they might ask might be what will that plan be and what did they do to create the bodies, did they kill them or did they witness the death. also we have the section from the radio where the main character realises what the men were talking about.

Character costume

character costume

This shows us what costume that the main character will be wearing when he is at school he will be wearing smart clothing such as chinos and a T-shirt this shows the audience that he is at school and that he might take his education seriously and want to learn. The second part of the main characters costume is Gothic style clothing. This shows the audience that the main character has two types of personalities this can show that because he gets changed he is trying to hide his true self from everyone else.

props list.

Props and Costumes

Here we have a list of the props and the costumes that we are going to be using. This just explains what the prop is, where it will be used and where we will be getting it from.

The head phones are going to used at the section of the sequence where the main character Aidan is walking home from school and he is going to be listening to music as he is walking home by himself. We will be getting the head phones from me as i have black head phones which suit the personality of him which is that he is a Goth.

This is the pound coin that is going to be used at the end of the sequence where Aidan has just got home and he is thinking about what the men in suits have said and when the coin stops spinning that's when he realises what they were talking about. Where we shall be getting this coin from is a wallet which we will have on the day.

This is going to be the exercise book that Aidan is going to be using at the start. He will be doodling in his book at the end of the lesson and when the bell goes the book will get closed and the title of the film will appear. We will be getting this from the English department as they are the only ones who do blue A4 books with lines.

Animatic

This is our animatic. We have used the animatic so that we can have a rough idea on what our opening sequence may look when we film it. The reason that we have chosen to use the animatic is so that the sequence should look identically similar to it. For our titles we have got together as a group to choose what they should be, firstly we have chosen to call our production company “spine chiller Production”. We have chosen to do this because our genre is a thriller and we wanted a company which sounded like they helped out with thriller films, the font that we used for this is a spray paint effect and also that a stencil has been used. We have chosen the font to be like this because it creates the effect of mystery and secrecy as it look like font used on secret documents. For this type of font we have used for all other title to create the same mood. The next main title is the name of the film and the font that we have used for this has the look of scribbles inside the lettering, we chose this as we wanted this to portray the main character as if he knows something and just can’t get it out of his head so he mentally scribbles out the thing that he has on his mind.


Ways that our animatic could be improved could be by at the start of the sequence we are going to have ambient sound as he is in the end of his lesson and we are going to have people talking and then the school bell is going to go and then he will walk out of his class and get barged by the bully. Ways that we could do this by recording a section of the end of the lesson when the bell goes and put that over what we want at the start. Also another improvement that we could change could be the music for our sequence. This is because the music sounds and suits that action adventure genre as it is up beat and quick paced, we need music that is slow but intense which can relate to our genre a thriller.

story board

 In the first five shots the character is going to be in a lesson and doodling in his work book not paying any attention to what is going and when the bell goes he closes his book, leaves his class and a bully barges him as he walks past. he then gets home and we see the character getting in his Goth clothes and make up on and then walk down the stairs. from this story board we will know what we are going to be doing and where the camera is going to placed. an example of this is going to be in the first shot where the camera is going to be above him looking over his shoulder looking at what he is doing.

 

In these shots we see the character just leaving his house walk along his path and taking a path through a forest and then he comes across two men but pays no attention to them. at this point we do not see the boys face as we are hiding his identity but we do see the faces of the two men. we do this so that we can suggest the identity of some of the characters already. 

In these last shots the character has gone past the two men and he hears them talking about something bad, and he goes home with these words that he has heard going around in his head and he starts flipping and playing with a coin and when he drops the penny he figures out what they are going on about. this makes the audience think what is he going to about what he has heard and is it going to be something he is going to tackle alone or with a team.

Sound

This is the first clip of sound that we chose as a group and from this, listening to the clip while it is playing with the animatic we have decided that this sound does not go with the opening sequence. So as a group we have decided to change the sound to the one below.



As a group we decided to come to an agreement on this sound clip for our opening sequence. We have chosen this because we wanted a clip that sounds fast paced to have a certain effect on the audience. We wanted the effect on the audience to be on the edge of their seats and going to have to wonder what is going to happen in the whole of the film. Also we wanted the sound to be fasted paced as we are going to make the opening sequence fast paced so that it would make the audience keep watching the film and not loose interest.

shot list

In this shot that I drew it shows a long shot of the main character walking away from the two men in the suits. This shows that it is set in a forest and that the lighting is low key. At this point in the film the character is walking through the woods and comes across two men having a secret convocation which he just walks past as if not hearing it when he has. We wanted this shot to have the effect of isolation in the character so that the audience feel sympathy for this main character. Also we can tell that the shot is going to be set in the evening as the sky shows that it is dark and set just before night time.

In this shot that I drew it shows a close up of the main characters face but one side of it. As a group we have decided to this shot like this because in the film Aidan has just come back from school and he has gone to his room and gotten straight out of his school uniform and is putting his Goth clothes on and then his makeup. We wanted this shot to suggest to the audience that this boy wasn’t comfortable with what he was wearing and feels “normal” in Goth clothes but also he wants to be different by the makeup. Also it makes the audience ask why is he changing from what they would call normal to a Goth.

 

In this shot we can see that the main character Aidan has come out of his classroom and there is a bully who is waking in the opposite direction to him so that the bully has to walk past him. At this point the bully barges into Aidan, this suggests to the audience that Aidan is weak and cannot protect himself which makes the audience empathise with the character Aidan.

 

In this shot we can see that the main character is spinning a coin on his windowsill. In the sequence we have chosen to have Aidan spinning a coin and thinking about what the two men has said and when the coin has finished spinning and stops that is when he realises what they have been talking about. Also this makes the audience realise that the penny has dropped and that Aidan has figured out the problem that was being discussed by the two men.

 This long shot is of Aidan in his room. In this shot we can that he is lying in his room and thinking deeply about what the two men were saying. This can suggest to the audience that he might be worried about what e has heard and wondering if he is going to do anything about it.

 In this shot we have a of the two men having the conversation. As we can see it is only a shot of their legs which can suggest to the audience that we have done this so that we can hide the identity of the two people so that the audience want to know who they are later on in the film.

film synopsis

For our genre of choice we have chosen a thriller. The main teenaged character of our film is going to be called Aidan, he is a typical goth who dresses black, doesn't talk to anyone and gets picked on while he is at school. Also there are two men in suits which the name of the characters are unknown in the film.

What happens is, in the beginning Aidan is finishing the last two minuets of the school day. He is going to be in a class where he is not paying any attention to what is being said and is sketching in his note pad. Once the bell goes he will be walking home and the route that he takes is going to be going through a woods. 

The setting of the film starts off at the end of the school day when the bell has just gone, then he will be taking his route home which is through the woods and this is where he sees the two men have the conversation. 

From this Aidan walks away but having heard certain parts of there conversation. The two men realise that he has Aidan has heard what they were talking about but he had gone out of sight for them to question him.

Aidan is sitting in his room going over the words that the two men were saying and decided to take matters into his own hands. At the end of the film he manages to stop what the men were planning but when he returns to school he acts like nothing ever happened and returns things to how they originally were.

VoxPops

 

We have chosen to do a VoxPop because it allows us to see what the audience would like to see in a thriller. From this we can decide what to put into our opening sequence just by the audience feedback. For the setting we have decided as a group to have it set in a woods at night as this is where the woods would be empty and no body will be around. Also we have decided to have the lighting as low key as this sets a mood of suspicion and wonder on the audience. From this audience feed back we are going to make the characters feel scared or confident this in turn will make the audience wonder what the film is going to be about. Also we will try to film it so that we can make the audience feel certain emotions such as confused, scared, worried.

Initial ideas

audience research task

Task 1- Audience research

 

In my group for this task and for our project is Casey Jenson, Jamie Oliver and Billy Casey. Three of the four people in our group Casey, Jamie and I each printed off ten copies each and gave them to ten people. The answer that we were looking was an age range of 16-24 for our opening sequence. We were looking for feedback on the genre of thriller. We asked our ten people mainly on what they think is in and related with a thriller. Two of the ten peoples results are shown below.

From these two results along with the rest of them. we got a rough idea of what we are going to do. We have decided that the type of theme that has a low key lighting which we will used to create an image to the audience which will make them want to watch the rest of the film if there was a whole film. Also we have learned from our audience feed back about what gender our main/ lead character should be. From this we will determine weather to choose a male or female. Also from our feed back we learnt how the audience like to watch there films and if they like to a British film or not. some evidence to back this up can be shown below.

Here you can see how the audience like to watch there films.
this tells us that some people like to watch the films mostly cinema and dvd. which can suggest some people like to watch it on a big screen or the small screen. 

Here we can see that it was exactly split in half when it came to liking a British out of the thirty questionnaires. this suggests that some people like to watch there films from either Britain or from another part of the world either because of the way that they are filmed or the type of atmosphere they create.

 

as you can see in this chart we can tell that there is an equal spread on what some people would like to mainly see in a thriller this helps us see what we can intergrade with our opening sequence. it makes it better as we are putting things in that the audience want to see in a thriller. 

this is telling how often the audience watch films. this can help us in a way which wants the reader to watch the film just from the opening which might make people who watch films sometimes make them watch them often.

 

Conventions of a thriller opening sequence

Conventions of a Thriller.


Some conventions of a thriller that are going to be used are a mysterious theme, specific camera angles such a long shots and close ups, makes the audience think, makes them ask specific questions, sound is specific (e.g. fast paced), low key lighting, to position the audience on a characters side, the costume is smart or casual, learn small parts about a character and editing is fast paced.

Firstly a mysterious theme. This is shown in most thrillers, an example of this could be the opening sequence to memento where the whole scene is played in reverse. This is mysterious because you wouldn't normally see a thriller start off in reverse. this can be linked to the audience think and also ask questions. it makes them do this because they want to know why it was filmed like that and if there was any reason why it was filmed like that. The director has done this to make the audience ask these questions and then in return want the reader to watch the film to find out why.  

Secondly specific camera angles are used, mainly long shots and close ups. Examples of this is in memento where they use a lot of close ups and extreme close ups. They do this so that they can make the audience think about certain shots and makes them think. A shot in memento is a ex-close up of blood dripping up the wall, this makes the audience think about why did they put it in revers and why is it going up the wall instead of dripping down.




 

Also in thrillers they uses low key lighting. Examples of this are in memento and sixth sense. In the sixth sense the director has used low key lighting to show that the place that she is in is a dark and mysterious place. they do this because they want the audience to emphasise with the character that is in this situation where it looks uncomfortable to escape from and to also look horrible and dark to stay in whish is the same in memento.

this shot in sixth sense shows that the place that she is in looks uncomfortable and dark to be in.

They also want to put the audience in with the action as if they were part of the film. They would do this by the scenes that they put together which either makes the audience want to feel like they want to help and be on the side of the protagonist or the director would want the audience to watch over the shoulder of the antagonist which can suggest that the main character of the film.

In a thriller opening they hint and slowly introduce the characters. This allows the audience to have their first impressions of the characters and decide which side they would be on, the protagonists or the antagonist. An example of this could be from memento where we get two characters. This can make the audience decide which side to be on as seen in the clip below.

Project Research.

Example 1.

Horror/Thriller

Insidious

 

Cinematography

In the opening sequence of insidious the cinematography is used well. An example of this is where the camera is upside down to start off with then turns the right way up as it goes in to the next shot. This makes the audience have the effect and atmosphere of being light and floating as the camera is smooth when it is turning the right way up. also it may get the audience to ask the question why was it filmed like that as the director hay want to portray a certain image.

Camera upside down.

Camera right way up.



 

Sound

in the clip sound is used to create an effect for the audience. in the clip the sound track has a creepy and eerie tone. this makes the audience feel 'what is going to happen?' and this tone can suggest to the audience that there is going to be something bad that is about to happen. also we can tell that it is the same frequency of sound which drones on but at different pitches, which can suggest that something might be coming and that something wont be very good.

 

 

editing

In the clip it uses editing to have an effect on the audience. An example of this is the titles in red at the beginning. The effect that it has on the audience is mystery and spooky. We can tell this as the audience because the text has a red smoke coming away from the letters, this could be suggesting that the film might be about ghosts as it looks like it is being represented as a soul leaving the body.

As we can see the red smoke is leaving the letters.

 

 

Mise-en-scene

In the in the clip it uses Mise-en-scene to create and effect on the audience. An example of this is the setting, from the first section we can tell that it is going to be set in a house but might be specifically a boys bedroom. This then makes the audience wonder if the film is going to be set about this boy in his room, also they ask the question 'who is this boy' and 'what type of background does he have.

Secondly in the picture above, there is low key lighting. This shot make the room look sinister and evil as there are a lot of shadows around the boy positioned in the centre of the shot.

 

 

 

 

Example 2.

 

Thriller

 

Sweeny Todd.

 

Cinematography

In the clip cinematography is used to create an effect on the audience. An example of this is an establishing shot of roof tops. This gives a general idea to the audience what the location of the film is and also it shows the weather at that moment in time which is dark and rainy. This suggests to the audience that the mood and atmosphere of this film is going to be a dark and mysterious film, but because of the weather it can if the effect of mundane which can hint it might have a gloomy and miserable theme.

 

Sound

In the clip it uses sound to create an effect for the audience. For example, the sound track for the star of the opening sequence starts off at a low pitch which is of an organ. as the part of the clip progresses the organ which the audience hear start to go up in pitch but the previous pitch is still playing. This creates the effect of being anxious and alert on the audience. This is because it makes them think what is going to happen next and does it have any relation to what is going to happen.

Editing
In the clip, it uses editing to create an effect on the audience. An example where this is shown is where there is a pull focus. It has done this to maybe show the audience the difference between the two characters, where one knows his way around and on who is new to where they are going.

before- focus on character in front .

after- front character walks away and it pull focuses to character behind.

Mise-en-scene
In the clip it uses Mise-en-scene to create and effect for the audience. Firstly the make up and facial expressions used for the main character gives the audience to think of there first impressions of him. This is shown when we get a close up of the main characters face. The first impressions that the audience might suggest is that he looks miserable and that he might not of slept for days on end. we can see this by the dark shade around his eyes, this can also hint to the audience that he might have a dark/ evil personality.

 

Locations where i might film.

Thriller

 

 I have chosen these three locations for a thriller style opening as the locations in the three pictures look abandoned dirty trapper and evil. This is shown in the pictures by the two pictures of the fences which if shot at the right angle can give the audience the feeling of being trapped and confined and the final picture can give the audience the feeling of being vulnerable and alone which can give ideas of being abducted or attacked.


romantic comedy

 

The three pictures that I have chosen for Rom Com have a lot of meaning. for example the sunset has the connotation of love which can link back to the romantic theme. The picture of the field can link to rom com where a couple might meet and just and have some time to them selves which an also be the same for the park where they would meet then go out.


Action adventure

The action adventure pictures that I have chosen can show many things. The shot where the camera is on the floor is of a long path way. This can be used for an on foot chase scene and the picture of the busy road can be used to show someone escaping from a chase. The picture of the residential area could be a form of meeting place or a final area where a final battle may take place.

Titles that need to be included.

Titles that need to be included.

 

In an opening sequence the first thing that comes up which is important is the titles. This tells us the different jobs/roles that the different people had when creating that film and what actors and actresses are involved.

 

The first thing that you need to include is the distribution company logo. From this we can tell what company has distributed the film. some examples of where this is shown is in the film "The Sixth Sense", "Brick" and "Memento". But all distribution companies are not going to be the same for all films, there would be a different company for other types of films. Some examples of different distribution companies are:



Focus features

Hollywood Pictures
 

production company

The next part would be the production company loge and for this it shows you who had produced the film. It is the same as the distribution company where it isn't the same company used for every film, they would have different ones depending on the type of film that is shown.

Examples may be:

• Thriller
• Horror
• Comedy
• Family
• Sci-fi



This is one example of a production company
that is used in "The Sixth Sense"

 

Title of distribution company

This title just explains that the film has been distributed and being presented by tat company. An example of how it is shown is it will have the distribution company then presents.

As shown above this is from the "The Sixth Sense".
This shows the production company presenting the



Title of production team.

This is the next title in line to be shown. In this shot they will have a list of names that have been there to produce the film. It will be set out with the names then production, which shows that that certain amount of people had a part in the production of that film.

This shot shows that three people were involved with
the production of The Sixth Sense.

Main actor/actress
The next shot would be the main actor or actress in the film. This actor or actress would normally be a well known actor/ actress. An example of this would be from The Sixth Sense where the main character is Bruce Willis.
 



This actor is well known for many films


Title of film
the next shot of this would be the title of the film this just tells the audience what the is called. the shots that come after this are other main characters where the more important ones are near the beginning and the least important roles at the end.

Other main characters/casting by
Then you would see the casting list in this it will show you who is casting the roles for the different characters. This is shown after the main actor and title as they are not as important that the main character.

costume designer
 next you would have the costume designer this role is to decide what the character is going to wear as what they wear need to be specific to their character.

music by
The next shot would be music by, this tells you the creator of the music which is played through out the film. next you would see is edited by , his tells the audience that the editing was done by that certain person.

Editing by
This person is in charge of putting all of the cuts and all the different types of editing terminology such as fades, filters etc...

Production designer
this person is in charge of finding the props which are going to be used in the film, also they are in charge of finding suitable locations for the film which will always have a link to what the scene is about.

Director of photography
this person is in charge of setting up the camera for the perfect shot. this shows that the camera needs to be placed to portray the prefect shot to set a perfect effect on the audience to make them ask questions.

 

the titles come in this order importance this is because they want the audience to know the well known actors/actress first and then the other people involved who are important but not well known as the main actors/actresses.