Permissions

As we are filming in my summerhouse, there wasn't anyone to get permission from, however just to be absolutely clear, I text my mum to make sure we could film on the given days we have decided on.

- Aimee

Risk Assessment

We have identified the risks of the shoot and who's responsibility it will be to reduce the risk of any potential accidents.

StoryBoard Animatic

This was an animatic version of the story board we created to test our titles, where they would appear and how many we used. It should be noted that these are not the actors, location, soundtrack or foley that we will be using for the final film. This was a test of titles, we have since created our final track which can be found on the blog.

Shot List

Family Room Shots First- 12th January

1- Close up of Aiden and Stevie
2- Aiden playing with toys
3- Aiden pulling himself up on the chair
4- Kate and Stevie
5- Kate playing with Aiden
6- Full family shot
7- Close up of Stevie smiling, happy

Derelict Building Shots- 12th (2pm-6pm) & 13th January

1- Ryan tied in chair
2- Close up of his face, look up, open eyes
3- Close up of his hands tied behind his back, struggling
4- Close up of ID badge on floor
5- Mid shot of ID badge on floor (Ryan's legs and chair visible)
6- Stevie standing over Ryan in chair
7- Mid shot of Stevie picking up ID badge
8- Close up of Stevie's hand picking up ID badge
9- Mid shot of Stevie pocketing the badge
10- Long shot Stevie visible in shadows walking out of shadows
11- Close up of Stevie's feet as he walks over to Ryan
12- Close up of gun being withdrawn from pocket
13- Shot of camera looking down the barrel of the gun
14- Close up of bullet being put in gun
15- Close up of cylinder spinning
16- Mid shot of cylinder spinning
17- close up of finger on the trigger
18- long shot of gun being held against ryan's head


All shots will be filmed at:

Holbon lodge
Valley Lane
Meopham
Kent
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Shooting Schedule

Locations: all shots are shot in the same location
                                           
                                                               Holbon Lodge
                                                                Valley Lane
                                                                  Meopham
                                                                     Kent
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We have started the day at 11am to allow travelling time, we will have everyone in costume, props ready, scenes set and camera ready to begin filming at this time. We will spend Friday night setting up the summer house, laying the carpet and hanging pictures and cloth on the walls to make it appear like a family home. We decided it would take longer to set up for the family home so this will be filmed first, there are only seven shots throughout the opening sequence using the family scene so we've anticipated only 3 hours to shoot useable footage for this. We also chose the Saturday for this purpose as Aiden, the child used, lives with his mum and goes home on Sunday's, and Kate will be using bus transport and the buses vary on Sunday's. From two PM on Saturday we will take the carpet away and strip the walls to create the derelict building effect, making sure the chair from the family shots is in exactly the same place for editing purposes and from 2 till 6pm we will shoot the hostage situation however we've anticipated needing the sunday to film this as well. We decided to film on the 12th and 13th as they are dates no one has conflicting issues with and it gives us longer to edit.

Call Sheet

This contains all the contact information needed for both the production company (lexicon films) and the actors we are using.

Soundtrack

When playing about on my piano I created a riff that would work perfectly as a soundtrack to our film. This is the experimental version, the real version will be recorded with the bass notes and higher notes over lapping.

- Aimee

Aimee showed me the soundtrack she created and I thought that it would be appropriate for our opening sequence as it creates a suspenseful atmosphere. It also ties in with the family scenes because the riff swaps between creepy and edgy to soft and happy.

- Hannah

Parity

On the set

The final product

StoryBoard

Test Shots and Recce

Production meetings

Week 4

Week Five

Asset and Costume List

Here is an asset list of the props and filming equipment that we need to complete our Thiller opening. There is also a rough list of what each actor needs to wear.

Questionable Intentions Timeline

This was the timeline we created for our opening sequence named 'Questionable Intentions' explaining what will be happening at what time, for how long, and what titles will be integrated into the sequence at what point. We have 19 titles altogether and all the times written down the side are in seconds.

Production and Distribution Company logos

This is the production company logo that we designed.

This was an experiment that we tried to get ideas for our distribution logo.

This was the final idea for the distribution company logo.

Vox Pops- Audience Expectations of a Thriller Film

For this task we interviewed six people between the ages of  16 and 25 and asked them what they expected from a thriller film and what their favourite thriller film was. Most people looked for an atmosphere from either suspense or fear and all looked for mystery. Some said they looked for twists which are quite essential to a thriller film and others said they look for a hero and villian. In the terms of thriller films this would be the protagonist and antagonist with some sense of right and wrong.

Iconic Thriller Film Directors

Aimee-Grace Miller as Chris Nolan

Hannah Costen as Quentin Tarantino

BBFC Research and Audience Research

BBFC Research and Examples on Prezi

This presentation was created by Aimee-Grace Miller and Hannah Costen to explain the different BBFC certifications and their criteria as well as giving examples. The final slides are audience expectations of the three thriller films Shutter Island, The Butterfly Effect and Se7en. We looked at the most common viewers and why we thought that the film attracted that gender and age range.

Match on Actions, Shot Reverse Shot, 180 Degree Rule

The following is a presentation we created to explain the media terminology of Match on Action, SHot Reverse Shot and 180 Degree Rule.
Match on Action was researched by Kate Offer
Shot Reverse shot was researched by Aimee-Grace Miller
180 Degree Rule was researched by Hannah Costen
We each took a topic, found diagrams and videos to explain how it is done, found out what it meant and then taught it to the others in our group.
Click here to veiw our presentation