Friday 26 February 2010

Target Audience

Our chosen target audience;

The 12A rating is only used for films shown in cinemas. It is given to films that are best suited to those aged 12 or older. However, people younger than 12 may see a 12A so long as they are accompanied by an adult!

We decided to choose 12A rating because it suite our thriller plan as there will be no violence or indecency involved. but our thriller contains a mature theme so is not suitable for a younger audience. And Although there is hinted violence in our plan there will be none so still conforms to this rating

The Guidelines from the "BBFC";

Suitable for 12 years and over. No-one younger than 12 may see a ‘12A’ film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult. No-one younger than 12 may rent or buy a ‘12’ rated video or DVD. Responsibility for allowing under 12s to view lies with the accompanying or supervising adult.

Theme: Mature themes are acceptable, but their treament must be suitable for young teenagers.

Language: The use of strong language (eg 'f***') must be infrequent. Racist abuse is also of particular concern.

Nudity: Nudity is allowed, but in a sexual context it must be brief and discreet.

Sex: Sexual activity may be implied. Sex references may reflect what is likely to be familiar to most adolescents but should not go beyond what is suitable for them.

Violence: Violence must not dwell on detail. There should be no emphasis on injuries or blood. Sexual violence may only be implied or briefly and discreetly indicated.

Imitable techniques: Dangerous techniques (eg combat, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on imitable detail or appear pain or harm free. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

Horror: Sustained moderate threat and menace are permitted. Occasional gory moments only.

Drugs: Any misuse of drugs must be infrequent and should not be glamorised or instructional.

Discrimination: The film or DVD as a whole must not approve of language or behavior that would offend a person’s religion, colour, gender, sexuality or disability. Aggressive use of this type of language and behavior is unacceptable unless clearly not approved of.

Monday 22 February 2010

Evaluation of Feedback

The difficulties and faults in our ten second breakdown which the other groups have commented on i agree with. This is including that while reading through our blog is can become confusing. Although out intentions are good and we explored all conventions well, we were not consistent, so our opening sequence did not flow properly. Weather conditions may also be a diffictuly filming, capturing out footage in limited time. However the groups explained how we 'employed good techniques'. In order to improve our breakdown we need to be more clear on our plan. Although our idea was good and different to others, having a infulence from another film to aspire to in our film would give the audience a better visual image of our opening sequence. In addition adding screen grabs of images or parts of films to our blog, of characters will also help boost a grade.
Feedback form S1-24

Overall, a good blog; we would like to point out that the narrative is a bit jumpy. It doesn't seem to keep track; the part where, the female is running in the field jumps from the prior shot which has nothing to do with it.

Good ideas for the thriller though, we can tell that it meets the criteria for the genre.
Feed back from s1-22


for some sections no music is included, like section 41-50 seconds and some others. try to be thorough include similar points for each section.
you have employed a good technique whilst explaining your breakdown, but only in some parts. To spread this good quality over your whole piece of work, adding more in-depth detail and maybe adding some examples of other work which has influenced your work ideas and themes.
S1-22

Feedback from S1-23

The narrative doesn't seem to keep track, it caused a bit of confusion for us to read, maybe go over the blog and make sure you have put everything you wanted to.

Add more detail to what the music is going to be like, and how it fits in with the conventions of the film.

S1 19 Feedback

Your finalised ideas blog is very well detailed and its shows a many ideas and descriptions of what your planning to accomplish in your Opening Thriller sequence which makes your groups intentions clear.

There is nothing to improve on within this certain blog as it shows a good level of commitment to your work. Well done

feedback from S1 20

After reading through the finalised idea, we can tell that they have a very strong idea and have covered all aspects of it well. They have used a wide variety of shot types throughout the opening sequence and music to fit the atmopshere such as low volume music to show heavy breathing.
Problems may occur when they are filming outdoors as the noise from the wind will effect the sound quality.

Friday 12 February 2010

Filming Tips

- Use a tripod so that shots are steady
- Use multiple takes as to eliminate any errors
- have a shot list so filming goes according to plan
- Use a variety of mixed shots
- back up plan for shots in case bad weather
- Don't carry weapons in public
- Be respectful to the public

Health & Safety;
- Be aware of your surroundings.
- Carry Longroad ID card to Show you are filming for a project in case someone has an issue with us filming
- Don't film in dangerous places likely to damage equipment or ourselves
- Don't use children in the film if so get permission

MAJOR PLAN

- We will start to film on the 23rd of Feb and we will pick the camera+tripod up at 4:10 along with our actors we will be using.
- We will begin filming in the college corridors and then to Histon for the majority of the film. This is not a public place in Histon so we will not need to worry about our dangerous prop.
- We will use natural lighting and a spotlight for part of it.
- We will use Jenny as she studies drama and would enjoy helping us out and would benefit her also. Jenny will be the main character, the vunrable girl and Adam as the spooky man.
- There is not a lengthy scrip so characters can learn script on site.
- Film crue will be Ruby and Adam.
- Ruby will provide the props
- If the weather is harsh then we will suspend filming due course.
- On our first day of filming we will attempt to complete most of our filming on that day, however we will look through what we have recorded and i expect we will have to take the camera out on another day too. possibley too re-capture parts which didn't work out as well as we thorght.
- we will try to utilise as many shot types as our script allows.

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Two minute breakdown

This is a list of our opening sequence broken down into a ten second description. We included about props, costume, location, dialogue and the storyline. This rough guide may not go exactly to the second once we have filmed but this is a good guideline to follow.

1-10; the first 5 seconds will begin a black screen and our ident will fade in, the music will begin a slow beat. The next few seconds will be the girl walking down the empty corridor, in everyday clothing, natural lighting from the windows near by shining in. At this time the atmosphere is beginning to kick in. For this shot our camera will be mounted on a tripod at long shot.
11-20; As the man appears behind the girl, a freeze frame of this scene will be shown, credits will appear and creep of the screen. As the girl turns, the man has vanished. While the freeze frame is on screen the music will be a sudden bass, giving impact on the action. This is all at long shot, however once the man has gone and the girl turns, it will be a close up of her face showing a reaction shot.

21-30; An image of a clean shiney knife will flash up at during our sequence, this prop will be a close up shot. As the girl continues to walk down the corridor, she gets paranoid, the atmosphere is heightened. She backs up against the wall, credits appearing during freeze frames. She slides down the wall in fear.

31-40; This next scene will begin of the girl jogging through a field, close up of her feet at first, her pass getting faster, beginning to run. The music becomes more intense and the beat increases. Camera angle will be a long shot to a medium. She will run past the camera. The soundtrack will stop and you will be able to hear her breath.

41-50; Flickering of the man appearing behind the girl yet again while the drama is happening. Flashes of the knife appear, and a photograph of the girl and man together, looking happy.

51-60;
The girl runs into the shed, a dark room she enters, using a match on action shot we will show her entering from the outside. Her up against the door scared. In the next few seconds the girl will be in the fettle position. Her make up ruined and hair messy, a close up of her eye, tears of blood dribbling down her face.

61-70;
while the girl is sitting in the spotlight suddenly a knife will appear in her hand she panics and jumps with shock. close up of knife and hand both covered in blood. using a spotlight will enhance in the intensity of the girls emotions.

71-80; A sudden clip of man walking towards camera closing in on the audience creating atmosphere. the guy will also be walking in an angry manor, looking straight at the camera. This shot goes into a close up of the guys face from a full body shot. The next scene is located in a grave yard, of the girl running....

81-90; as the girl runs past the camera, the man appears and begins to chase her. All you hear is heaving breathing and footsteps, rustling from the twigs snapping on the ground. It lighting will be dark showing depth to our opening sequence.

91-100; As the girl is running the man the man getting closer. The camera is handheld, wobbling about. the music is at a low volume as to emphasis the girls breathing and running

101-110;
The girl is cowering behind a grave stone. The man appears behind the girl, the opposite side of the gravestone, slowing walking up. The girl is muttering to herself, paniking, looking around feeling venerable.

111-120;
Build up of tense music he walks around the side of the side of the gravestone the girl spots him and begging even further with flashes of the knife appearing on screen then title of the thriller "Loose Control" then flash of the knife again but with blood



Monday 8 February 2010

'Panic room' anyalysis

PANIC ROOM analysis;

The opening sequence introduces credits against the surroundings of the city this makes the audience interested more compared to just plain credits. The credits are introduced with many different shot types, including a pan shot and tracking shot. The slow intense movements makes the film a more powerful opening coupled with the music which appears to be a funeral tune. Using low beats and a slow pace creating a moody atmosphere, giving you the feeling something bad is going to happen anytime. The lighting is natural but dull making it very atmospheric.

Friday 5 February 2010

Garageband

We are going to use garage band for our soundtrack of the film 'Loose Control'
Our soundtrack will build tension, these effects will add to the realism, along with our non-diagetic sound of screams, heavy breathing and nearby rustling from bushes.

Agonist and Protaganist Comparison

Six Feet Under Analysis



As i have never seen the opening sequence to six feet under before, it appears to be mysterious, coming across quite peaceful shown by the colors and slow panning camera movements. Judging by the beginning it doesn't seem to be a violent thriller, although imagery of dead people, hands letting go of one others. The scene going down the long corridor, going towards the light, suggests death. The film seems spooky, the set of credits are shown in a very ironic way as they are showing things associated with death, or even major symbols of death on what appears to be a possible 'normal' day.

The music seems like a soundtrack that would accupany a childrens film, on the hand it has sudden sounds which makes your heart jump. Its a happy tune but odd.

The credits are unusual as they pop up and appear on such things as a gravestone, or a funeral car. This makes it quite quirky. The style of credits accompany the clip well, and the images begin to give away the genre of the film throughout. The credits slide off the screen with the camera movements.

During the opening scenes you begin to put together links through the images, this shows how important music is to a film or programme.

Mise-en-scene in our film and examples

Props;
The props we will use will be the knife which flashes in between scenes and the spotlight. The knife will give away more of the storyline and help viewers understand.


Sets;
We will not use any sets as such but we will set up some lighting in the dark room.

Lighting;

We are using lighting such as a spotlight for the high angle fetal also we will use it to aid the effect of the man flashing in and out of the scene. Towards the end of our opening sequence, located in the grave yard, we will use natural lighting, we have decided to film this around dusk, giving a more spooky impact.

Costume and make-up;
The costume for our actors will be casual, however towards the end the girl's clothes will be slightly grubby, make-up down her face and hair ruffled.

Feekback from pitch

Various feedback and questions were queered;
Looking out for passers by and traffic is not an issue in our filming, however our location is a very deserted area and finding this is not to easy with out many interruptions, so planning is ensual.

We got told that using weaponry in our film was not permitted although it depends how you include this. Filming an 'attack' would not be allowed so we took advice from this and are just going to include flashes of a knife during our opening sequence, but at the end the knife will have fake blood dribbling off it.

Finding actors for our film is a dilemma as there is only two of us, so finding other members to use in our film is an important priority. The advice given was that we need to focus on finding actors soon as possible to help act in our film.

A few questions about mise-en-scene and sound was asked.
In conclusion i think that doing the presentation helped us think about smaller details and actually gave us more of an idea of what to include in our thriller film.

Tuesday 2 February 2010

'Why "Thrillers" Thrive' Review

Depending on how a story is portrayed with the characters, depends on if it is thriller or horror. In a thriller you feel more involved in the story, dragging you into the drama, a sense of reality. On the other hand a horror still gets you involved yet your more watching the action than living it. In the short story is describes at a theater it seems 'impersonal and detached from ourselves'.

Shot listings

The main shot types to be used are Close-ups, the reason for this is that close-up shots do not reveille the full picture and therefore create a mystery effect to the sequence. In addition it will show emotion on a high level and get you more involved in the clip.

the shot types to be used are;
Medium close-up,
Close-up,
Extreme close-up,
Long shot,
Mid shot,
Establishing shot,
Panning.

Monday 1 February 2010

Storyboard for Thriller


Our Storyboard
When it comes to filming our thriller project, having a storyboard will he a helpful rough guideline of our story to follow. The pictures represent the scene and camera angle. In every box there is a different location. As we use mostly all of the camera angles, i have written a quick sum up under the picture describing whats going on. Each box is roughly about 10 or so seconds. Our shot list includes the numbers of shots and better description.