Opening Scenaration - Miss Miller

The opening scene of our thriller is the following plot, a young girl is walking home on Halloween night after going out with her boyfriend, during this scene there will be only diegetic sound in the form of dialogue between the two characters. As she is making her way home she begins to feel as if someone is following her, there is no sound during this scene, just the sound of her walking. She recieves a text from her Mum asking when she will be home, she replies saying that she is nearly home and she will see her soon. At this point she enters the underground car park, this is where we first see the killer, who is in the background out of focus, when the killer makes a movement to go behind one of the car park pillars there is non diegetic sound, this is a sudden jumpy sound effect. Then the killer is fully visible to both the audience and the victim and we can see he has bad intentions as he is holidng a knife and wearing a mask. The victim is then in absolute shock and begins to run for her life this is when she is captured by the killer. The next part of our narrative shows the killer making his way down to an abandoned shed, there is a lot of low key lighting in this scene. We then filmed the victim slowly waking up and realising that she is being held hostage, this is when she begins to call for help. The killer then turns the lights on in this abandoned shed and it is then when the audience see that he has set up almost a murder scene, with dead bodys hanging from the ceiling and blood all over the floor. The killer then proceeds to taunt the victim by slowly walking around the room with a knife. Then he executes her and turns of the camera. The final shots we see is the outside of the shed and then the mask of the killer jumps infront of the screen.

There will be some elements that will make our opening scenaration better..

Shortening phone scene: The scene where the victim was texting her Mother and telling her when she will be home was quite long and took up a lot of our 2 minute time period. We felt this part was not as significant as others in our opening scenaration so we decided to shorten it. This will allow the opening sequence to increase in speed and intensity creating much more tension among the audience, this will therefore make it much more conventional.

Using out of focus shots: We plan on using a lot more out of focus shots in our opening sequence, these will be included when the killer is on screen. This will make our opening sequence much more conventional as a thriller as it creates an enigma as the audience aren't fully able to see the killer.

Filming schedule / Risk Assessment - Miss Georgiou

The purpose of the risk assessment task was to ensure that all members of the group would be safe while filming. To make sure of this we had to make sure any dangers that may occur during filming were dealt with, for example using knives in public and tripping on any leads. To avoid these hazards we came up with a prevention for each one.

We made a filming schedule, this was a rough copy of the timings when we planned to film. The filming schedule also included the location, what we was filming, and the equiptment we would be needing. This schedule was helpful as it allowed us to keep organised and we knew what we was doing on each day. Although we didnt entirely stick to the filming schedule it was still extremely helpful.

Description of hazard	Prevention of hazard
Trailing leads while filming	Use gaffer tape to secure leads
Using knives in public.	Take care about where we film.
Getting run over.	Be careful when crossing roads with equiptment.
Tripod falling over.	Make sure it is carefully balanced at all times.
Dropping the camera during handheld.	Make sure it is always straoped to your hand.

 

 

 

 

 

Shot	Date & time	Location	Content /Action	Shot type & Duration	Costume/ hair/ make up	Iconography	Personnel	Equipment
1	17.11.2013 5:00pm	Repton Park	Filming the large tower in order to set the scene.	Extreme long shot into a pan, for approx. 4 seconds.	None	None	Cameraman Location manager	Digital camera, Tripod, Street Lights.
2	17.11.2013 5:15pm	Repton Park	Filming the victim saying goodbye to her boyfriend after a night out on Halloween.	Long shot, approx. 5 seconds.	Girly outfit, Hair up.	Phone and Handbag.	Cameraman Location manager Actors	Digital camera, Tripod, Street lights.
3	17.11.2013 5:30pm	Repton Park	Filming the victim on her way home.	Mid shot, approx. 3 seconds.	Girly outfit, Hair up.	Phone and Hanbag.	Cameraman Location Manager Actor	Digital camera, Tripod.
4	17.11.2013 5:45pm	Repton Park	Filming girl texting her Mum when she will be home.	Close up, approx. 5 seconds.	None	Phone,	Cameraman Actor	Digital camera
5	17.11.2013 6:00pm	Repton Park, underground car park.	Filming girl walking and then mysterious figure appears.	Long shot approx. 5 seconds.	Girly outfit, hair up.	Phone, Handbag, Mask.	Cameraman Location manager Actors	Digital camera, tripod.
6	17.11.2013 6:15pm	Repton park underground car park.	Filming the antagonist walking towards the girl.	Over the shoulder shot approx. 5 seconds.	All black outfit.	Mask, Knife.	Cameraman Location manager Actors	Digital camera, Tripod.
7	17.11.2013 6:30pm	Repton park underground car park	Filming the girl looking shocked and scared.	Close up approx. 4 seconds	Hair up, make up on.	None.	Cameraman Location manager Actors	Digital camera, Tripod.
8	18.11.2013 5:00pm	Repton Park, field	Filming the girl running	POV, approx. 4 seconds.	None	Shoes.	Cameraman Actor	Digital camera.
9	18.11.2013 5:15pm	Repton Park field	Filming the girl being captured	POV approx. 2 seconds	None	None	Cameraman	Digital camera, bin bag.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

 

 

 

Production Roles - Miss Miller

It is important that people are allocated specific roles in films, this is so that everyone is aware what role they have in the creation of a film. The different roles we would expect to see in the creation of a film are, producers, directors, music producers, editors, actors etc. This allows people to work better in their specialised role and also means that not one person is having to do all the work; instead they are able to concentrate on one aspect of the film and make that as best as they can. 

To decide which role each member of our group was going to have we had to look at what each of us was good at. Joe had previous experience using garage band, this meant that he was most suited to creating the soundtrack for our opening sequence, therefore he was appointed head of sound. This means that he is responsible for creating anything sound related in our opening sequence, such as the soundtrack, sound effects etc. This will make it easier when it comes to adding the sound to our filming as we know who to go to if we have any ideas related to the sound aspect of the opening sequence. 

Joe was also appointed as the director of the overall project, this was decided as we felt that he was most organised and could therefore lead the team much more efficiently. This means that Joes job is to oversee the whole project and make sure everything is running correctly. It is also Joes job to change anything if he thinks it does not look right, for example if one shot does not go as planned on the storyboard, it will be down to Joe to modify this. The fact that we know we have one director will make it easier for the other members of the group as we know who has the final call on all decisions and they can therefore make any big decisions that we may come across during filming.

The role of director of photography was handed to me, this was decided as I was the most experienced in the group when it came to handling a camera. This experience would allow me to decide which type of shots are best for certain scenes. My responsibilities in this role are everything to do with the camera, for example I would decide what type of shot we would use, the duration of the shot etc. This makes it easier for Joe and Reggie to voice their opinions about what types of shots they think we should use, but I have the final say.

The role of editing director was given to Reggie, however there was also a large input from Joe in this role. This was decided as both Reggie and Joe are very good with the Apple software and would therefore be the most suited to editing our opening sequence. In this role Reggie was required to edit all the shots that we would be using in our opening sequence, this included, altering the brightness, cutting the length of shots and adding fades and swipes for example. This is one of the most important roles in our project as it is what we felt would entice the audience the most. The fact that we had two people working on the editing was helpful as it meant they could both contribute ideas to the overall editing of the opening sequence.

The role of actors in our opening sequence was another important aspect. It was vital that we had a female victim, therefore we got Cara Gaffney to act out that role. We also had two other actors, the boyfriend (Joe Smith) and the antagonist (Myself). The role of the actors in our opening sequence was to follow the directions that the director gave to them. It was important that out actors nailed their role as they are what the audience are creating their relationships with, therefore it was vital that they depicted the emotions that was expected of them for example Cara had to portray fear and a sense of inferiority. Having these actors made it easier for us as it meant that we could work with them individually in order to make them act in the way which we wanted. 

Overall each person in our group did very well in the role which they was allocated, we all did our jobs properly. Assigning each person a role in our team was very important as it allowed each member of the group to work on the area in which the specialise in. The only problem we had was when it came to  the role of who would be naming the film, we was split on three different titles, The Rejected, The Different and Phobia. Each member of the group thought their title was the best and we could not come to a joint decision.