Tuesday 23 February 2010

Roles played with in the group:

Director: Arron

Editor: Ruth/Josh/Ryan

Sound: Ryan

Actress: Ruth

Actor: Ryan

Director of Cinematography: Ruth

Cinematography 2nd Director: Arron

Costume designer: Josh

Location finder: Ryan



Image of our first draft of our script.






First draft of our script

Post for last lesson:

Last lesson we spent constructing our soundtrack that we will place over the majority of our opening thriller sequence. This is a first draft of our soundtrack that started off will one phone call that gradually was built up will more overlapping phone conversations of our help line.

We played around with tempo, pitch and volume.

Sound Track Editing




This image shows the progress we have made so far on our voice over sound track. We've edited all the phone conversations we needed and organized them as a rough test. It starts off as one conversation and building up one by one so its layered and hard to understand each one separately. At this point during the clip we haven't planned on adding any visual footage except from the opening credits.

Post for todays lesson:

Today we wrote the first draft to our script of the conversation between our two main characters Gemma and John.

We made a print screen and wrote about our music non-diegetic soundtrack that would be the main sound over the opening of our thriller film.

We finalized the props needed and spoke about whom we could ask to take part in our film. We had to think of people we knew that would be comfortable being filmed. A reasonable good actor that wasn't shy and most importantly didn't look like a little kid (teenager) We wanted our thriller opening sequence to look professional and not done using actors that clearly were from a college production - We took a image of our script to show our progress so far...



Friday 12 February 2010

After Half-term

We intend on finishing filming e.g. close ups, more voice overs, additional sound and begin editing!

15 Film Certification


15 –
Suitable only for 15 years
and over
No one younger than 15 may
see a ‘15’ film in a cinema.
No one younger than 15 may
rent or buy a ‘15’ rated
video work.

Discrimination
The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory
language or behaviour.

Drugs
Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not
promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily
accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example,
aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable.

Horror
Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic
or sexualised.
Imitable behaviour
Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and
self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be
copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

Language
There may be frequent use of strong language (for example,
‘fuck’). The strongest terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be
acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated
use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.

Nudity
Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without
strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a
non-sexual or educational context.

Sex
Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail.
There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour,
but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable
unless justified by context. Works whose primary purpose is
sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.
Theme
No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is
appropriate for 15 year olds.

Violence
Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction
of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to
be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also
unlikely to be acceptable.

There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence
but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and
have a strong contextual justification.

Friday 5 February 2010

What makes a Psychological thriller.

Psychological thriller is another type of thriller and is the 'type' that we will be using into our final. We wanted to incorporate elements of mystery, tension and drama into our final opening sequence. To create this we carefully choose our angle shots and camera shots too, by having quick, sharp editing this will create suspense.. which is perfect! Our suspense in this psychological thriller will come from the two characters preying on each others minds, this will be made more vivid with physical expressions and actions they preform on screen.

Generally, thrillers focus on plot over characters, and thus emphasize intense, physical action over the character's psyche. Psychological thrillers tend to reverse this formula to a certain degree, emphasizing the characters just as much, if not more so, than the plot.


Here is an example of a recent Psychological thriller....


The Story

John is a manic depressive, he is on his own with no family but is a very successful business man. Seeking help from a support/help line John finds himself phoning everyday and weirdly connecting to the same Call Lady (Gemma) on every occasion.
Each phone call brings them closer and closer together, so close that John's emotions and depression starts to have effects on Gemma's everyday life.
John gets emotionally attached to Gemma and when she decides that the phone relationship has got to far she plans to leave the helpline and find a new job.
John instantly hits rock bottom when realizing that Gemma has gone. He begins to think that their relationship needs to become more physical and sets about finding her...

Thursday 4 February 2010

Test Shots


This shows setting and background
















This shot is one that we will use in the opening
















Close up of phone IMPORTANT


















Other shot similar to the one above
















THE BENCH main location for opening

Shot list for opening sequence

Shot one: Black screen with credits
Shot two: Extreme close up
Shot three: Close up
Shot four: Extreme close up
Shot five: Extreme close up
Shot six: Extreme close up
Shot seven: Close up
Shot eight: Long Shot
Shot nine: Side long shot
Shot ten: extreme close up
Shot elven: Extreme close up
Shot twelve: Extreme close up
Shot thirteen: Close up
Shot fourteen: Extreme close up


Storyboard


















Tuesday 2 February 2010

Feedback from our class about our ideas

The feedback from our class on the whole was positive. They liked our general idea and thought they would easily work. They thought our story board was original and creative and were interested to see how we would present them into our thriller opening sequence. They gave us some new ideas as well: included having a non-diegetic sound seeping through our opening sequence. We told them we would use spilt screen throughout and would use quick, fast, editing shots which the class felt would look really good to watch. We then looked back at our general idea and developed and adapted it to these new positive feedbacks and ideas!

Micro Plainning

In our sequence we are thinking of using fragmented shots of certain features of our characters faces to leave questions and not to give anything anyway too soon.
At the start we have an idea to use non-diagetic sounds such as noises like birds, wind, footsteps then slowly switching into phone calls building up so eventually its a big layered sound track of calls which could all cut out and leave a single dialing tone. While this is happening the credit are rolling plus the logo of the production company will appear.
Some shots we thought could be interesting and effective are doing E.C.U of objects from each scene e.g close up of pencil pot. On the male character, your eye leads up the character starting from the foot panning up towards the rest of the body.