Narrative ideas - Ms H

Narrative ideas - Ms H

Group member ideas:

Kemal's narrative idea

• A woman hears a strange noise coming from a room in a house she just moved in to, and she see's a rocking chair rocking back and forth but it's self. and she gradually walks closer and closer to it, then it shows the front of the chair with no one sitting on it with the woman behind it, then it shows a point of view shot of her walking up to the chair but theres a hand on the arm rest. she gets closer and closer then the person on the chair jumps out, and the door shuts and locks.

• Advantage- This is a conventional thriller idea and has the potential to be a successful clip. We can make this clip like no other.
• Disadvantage- There wont be a lot going on in the scene, it will just be a very quick thrill and will not create that much of a tension amongst the audience.

Bryan's idea: A girl hears a noise down stairs she goes down stairs and then realizes the source is coming from the front if the house she walks out side to the end of the garden but a killer gets into the house when she leaves it. he then hides and she walks in. she goes up stairs and it says'your going to die' in the mirror she goes to bed really scared and the killer is under her bed.

• Advantage- Typical narrative of someone getting killed so the audience can identify the genre. It is easily followed and the audience wont get lost or confused with the narrative.
• Disadvantage- A killer coming into the victim's house is too predictable, and it is seen to much in thriller films..

My narrative idea:

A stalker follows an innocent woman down an alley way then kills and rapes her, the editing was going to be the key factor in making this idea a good thriller scene.

Final group narrative:

My groups final narrative is going to be a woman is followed home from the trains station coming back from work, and on her way he takes pictures of her, she thinks she is being followed at times but does not see anything, she gets home not thinking anything of it. The stalker has followed her all the way to her house. The atmosphere changes as soon as the door slams and the stalker who is also a killer and gets inside the womans house. Many abnormal things happen in the house which then results in the woman becoming vulnerable to the antagonist. the victim then becomes very scared and feels she is grave danger, she tries to escape from the house but all doors are locked and windows will not open. The Antagonist then reveals himself to the victim with a knife and chases her but not for long until he catches her and kills her leaving her hand on a window covered in blood slowly sliding down, leaving a red handprint on the window.

Planning - Editing Planning - Ms B

Planning: Editing Planning - Ms B

Editing is one of the vital aspects in the process of film production. In general, editing is done to provide coherence and continuity to a film. Editing is the part of post production of film making. The person who does editing is known as the editor. Good editing can make bad production look good and bad editing can turn a good production into bad. Through editing, shots are combined in accordance with the script to create finished movie. A shot must be short enough to fulfill the purpose.  Some of the conventional uses of editing in thrillers are slow motion, slow paced editing, & fast paced editing. These types of editing are used especially in Thrillers to create tension. Slow motion along with slow paced editing are used to build the scene up and emphasizes which creates suspense. On the other hand, fast paced editing is mainly used to create adrenaline and is used when something big is happening. 

Some of the conventional uses of editing in thrillers are:

Fast paced editing

fast paced editing is where a load of clips are shown really fastly which will create suspense amongst the audience.

Slow paced editing

Slow pace editing is when clips are put together at a slower pace and this is to create suspense. Slow pace editing is used so the audience can follow the plot of the thriller but it is also used to signal that something is going to happen.

Montage editing 

is the speed of editing, where shots are quickly just posed together to create excitement.

180 rule

imagine a hypothetcal line drawn between two or more actors. the camera must not shoot on the other side of the line and this is because it can confuse the audience and also the shooting will not be consistent.

Conclusion

By knowing all of these different types of different editing skills it will help me and my group make our thriller trailer more effective, and also create a thrill amongst the audience.

Planning: Character Representation- Ms H

Planning: Character Representation

The aim of a characters representation is to give the audience a idea of the films narrative by how the person in the role is expressed. the character representation can also build relationships between the audience and the characters. this is a very good concept because our antagonist will need to make the audience feel sorry for and also see the need to panic if something bad is going to happen to her.

we firstly have our antagonist who is Bryan
our antagonist will be represented as a 19 year old who has dropped out of school in a young age and also someone who is unemployed with plenty of time in his hand. we first experience bryan stalking Tanya (protagonist) in the background not so clear. Bryan starts all this because of his hate towards the world and his mum abandoning him at a young age has just put him in this state from a young age.

This has been the ideal background on my character because we need him to become this aggresive character that has had a lot of pain and wants to make the world live the same pain. we will make our character dress in black because he needs to be shown with dull colours which is the representation of him being evil.





Then we have our protagonist who is Tanya
Tanya will be known as a girl that is in the middle of her studies and who is aspiring to go to uni. she is a girl to herself and trys the best in life to achieve. Both her parents have successful workers which is often meant that she will be left at home alone. which all these factors conclude to her walking home for the last time after being stalked by a black dressed character (antagonist: bryan). My character representation for my protagonist is planned to be bright colours which represents innocence.

Conclusion

i have learnt that looking at how i need to represent my character has helped me decide on how my character will look. we have analysed in our group on how we want our character to be represented and how our characters should look in ever prospective. our character will enable the audience to realise what is going on and what the character should be representing.

 

 

 

 

Planning - Creating own storyboard - Ms B

Planning - Creating own storyboard- Ms Begum

before we started filming we used our knowledge on what a storyboard is and what it is and why and what it helps with. we knew that a storyboard will give us a rough idea on how our thriller film will look so we set to create our own story board. the story board helped us on a number of things such as the organiseation of the group and also what camera angles we will need to take.

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conclusion

creating a story board helped me and my group in many ways such as knowing how to take shots and being organised on what we are going to do and how we want that to happen. these all was the knowledge from before on our iconography knowledge and also on how a storyboard looks and what it is used for.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Pre Production Paperwork - Ms B

Pre Production Paperwork

A location reece form allows us to find where we are filming as a group and also helps us find our way to the filming area accurately. it gives accurate directions from our school where every member of our group is familiar with which will guide them easily.

The client release form is very important, it is a agreement amongst the people that participate that they will be at a certain location at a certain time agreed so there will be no exception for people not turning up. this will make everything more rapid and organised in our production group but must of all the best quality we can produce.

The production schedule is used to let the members that are taking part know when and where they will be shooting specific shots. Contact numbers are also used on the form for any problems or inquiries the cast have. It states whom is in charge of directing, editing, camera work, so that the cast know who they need to talk to. Production schedule is important as the cast need to know when and where they are filming as well as who is responsible for certain roles for any problems they may have.

The location release for is a document that shows we are legally taking footage and the right to be filming. the production members will take all responsibility to if there is any inflict or damage cause upon the usage of the area. Also this form allows to give a specific time and location where our filming events will take place.



The risk assesement is the summary showing the problems that could occur in the scene off filming. we will do this to make sure that all people acting and involved in the filming is safe while filming. This is important paper work as the safety of our team is vital

 

 

 

 

 

Planning: Production Roles- Ms H

Planning: Production Roles

we will have several roles within our group 

Location Manager 

As a group we decided that Bryan should be our location manager as he has a very good idea/knowledge on enfield and he has very good knowledge on where could be a good place to take our conventional thriller 

Camera operator

In my thriller i will be the camera operator because i feel that i will be the best person to work with the camera in our group. In addition as well as having  steady hand with the camera, i am aware of how the camera works and is able to get into different angles capture movement order to create an effective scene as i have a good knowlede of cinematography causing myself to have the best eye for the job.

Storyboard organiser

As a group we have decided that all of us should participate to create our storyboard as we believe that everyones idea should be contributed. by all of us contributing we will create a brainstorm and condense all our idea's into one story board that we are all happy with going by. so all our thoughts on how the thriller should be and the costumes of the character should be all of our contributions and displayed onto our storyboard as we all agree.

Sound technician

in our group we have decided that kemal will be dealing with sound operating because we feel as a group that he has the best knowledge on what sound should be used where and also he knows how to create a scary atmosphere with sound and create tension amongst the audience. Kemal is also familiar with the software to create soundtracks.

Opening Credits - Ms H

Opening credits

opening credits are shown at the beginning of a show and list the most important members of the production. They are usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show. Some opening credits are built around animation or production.

The purpose for opening credit is that it shows/points out the important people that are included in creating the film or production. it allows to spend a moment allowing the audience to know who created what feature of the film and also who ever played a part in the film. 

As well as showing/telling the audience who was involved in the production of the film, the opening credits is the beginning of the film which it gives some sort of background to the start of the film and a thrill to the audience. while showing the important names there is animations going on in the background, for example in the film se7en the opening credits have a man doing awkward things in the background such as knitting on a piece of paper and also cutting up pieces of paper that does not make sense which creates a thrill and tension amongst the audience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEq-4fua3lM






All of the actions within the sequence (book pages turning, making tea, drawings), are in a dull colour tonality. This is a plot giveaway to the audience; that the film is dark, and makes it seem more chilling, as the images used are quite provoking. Especially as he crosses out the eyes on the photograph of a little boy. The actions within the sequence become increasingly sinister looking, as only a pair of dirty hands are shown performing them. These hands imply to the audience that they belong to an odd, and most likely central character to the film; so the audience already feels like they understand this character, without being shown his face, or knowing his name. The actions are not shown in chronological order, and often 'double vision', and flicker across each other; however, the actions seem to focus around making something. All these factors just create confusion amongst the audience and fear in what is going to happen in the film.


Typography 

In traditional typography, text is composed to create a readable, coherent, and visually satisfying whole that works invisibly, without the awareness of the reader. Even distribution with a minimum of distractions and anomalies are aimed at producing clarity and transparency.

As we could see this is one type of typography where dark blue font has been used and the font has been placed in the centre of the screen. We also have a plain black background which makes the writing stand out.