costumes

For the dead person which is grace i thought she would be wearing ripped, bloody cloths because she is dead and been murdered.

Costumes

For andrea the mysterious women i thought she would wear a rain coat and smart shoes and jeans

costumes

For the investigator outfit i thought he would wear long black coat and and black trousers and a smart pair of shoes. So he is dressed all in black so he looks mysterious.

Costumes

For the women walking though the park i thought that she would wear:

Permission letter

We had to send a letter out the coucil to ask if we could if in there area.

Research

The last couple of posts are research I have done in my own time to research thriller opening and title sequences. This has helped me because I understand and can see what makes a good thriller and what aspects working well and how I can apply them when trying to film and editing me and my groups film.

Salt

Mise-en-scene:

Costumes- prison uniforms, ripped clothes, suits, dress, army uniform

Props- rope is used for hand cuffs

Location- North Korea, in a prison

Camera angles:

Shots- Close ups and medium shots

Editing:

Titles- White capital writing was use for salt, and the background used was the film.

Sounds:

Music-  Slow peaceful music with a big ending to it.

Gone in Sixty Seconds

Mise-en-scene:

Costumes- None

Props-  Pocket watch, a car

Location- America

Camera angles:

Shots- close ups

Editing:

Titles- The writing was in capital letters and was filled with yellow and the outline was red, the background was the title sequence building into the film.

Sounds:

Music-  Fast up beating music was used to create an atmosphere for the start of the film.

The Tourist

Mise-en-scene: 

Costumes-  Suits, coats, dress, waiters uniform, delivery guy uniform

Props- Phones, drinking cups, using computers, waiters tray, newspaper, letter

Location- Paris, France, on the streets, restaurant and a van

Camera angles:

Shots-  Close ups, long shots, hight shots

Editing:

Titles- Small titles where used with white writing having the film as the background

Sounds:

Music-  A fast beating tune was being played during the title sequence.

Hitman

Mise-en-scene:

Costumes-   T-shirts, trousers, white costumes

Props- tattoo pen

Location-White bright room, swimming pool, gym, outside in snow, operation room

Camera angles:

The shots that are used in this scene’s are close ups and mid shots.

Editing:

Titles-  White capital letters was used on a black background

Sounds:

Music-  Slow music was being played with deep singing to build up suspense.

Props list

These are the prop's we are going to use in our sequence

Equipment list

These are what i thought we might need when filming our opening sequence.

Story Board

I have drawn out step by step of what order our filming should go in and wrote the camera shots we are going to us:

Production logo's

 Last night I have come up with some ideas of what our logo can look like for our production company.  I thought because our group is called gas group we could use gas fire in our logo.

Locations

Here are a couple of images I got off of Google maps to show what the area is like around our filming location and also where it is going to bed held and set.

Here some street names so you know where it’s being filmed:

Here is a bird’s eye view of the field and there area around it:

This one is the walk way down to the field we are going to use:

Mood board

This is a mood board I have done for our film 'The Ending'.

Emergency contacts

Andrea has done the some emergency numbers we might need for when we are filming just incase something might go wrong.

Story line

Here is the order in which the scene's are going to take place during the filiming, and the shots we are going to use.
Also these are the titles that will be appearing while the filiming in shown and what order they are going to be shown in.

Story boards

1.       A close up of the women walking (Danica)

2.       Long shot of the women walking her dog

3.       Close up of the dog sniffing

4.       Over the shoulder of the dead body  seeing the dog running to the body

5.       Close up of dead body (grace)

6.       Mid shot of women running over (hearing women scream and panic)

7.       Close up of the women calling 999 and of the phone

8.       Looking at the dead body while you hear the women talking on the phone

9.       Extreme close up of bloody hand

10.   Over shoulder shot of the women in black (Andrea) looking and the women and the dog and the body

11.    Andrea walks off in front of the camera

12.   Close up of the dead body then goes straight into the title

These are what is going to appear when you see the opening sequence:

1.        

2.       Production company name

3.       Producer name

4.       Actors names

5.       Sound

6.       Directors + editing

7.       Actors names

8.        

9.        

10.    

11.   Camera

12.   Titles

These are the names going in to the sequence:

·         Production company name: Gas productions

·         Producer name: Warner brothers

·         Sound: Kevin Ladley

·         Camera: Danica Ebers and Georgina Ladley

·         Directors and editing:  Andrea Nicholls

·         Actors names:

1.       Georgina Ladley

2.       Grace ladley

3.       Andrea Nicholls

4.       Gordon Fladley

5.       Sophie males

Dexter remake

When it came to filming the Dexter remake us as a group found it harder than we all thought it would. If you watch the really Dexter sequence you notice that there are a lot of close ups in it, so when we filmed it we found it hard because we did not use a tri-pod. The shots that were close to the something flat were alright because we just placed the camera on it and filmed from there but higher close ups was harder. When coming to edit it I found it hard to cut out the background notices so when you listen to the sequence you can hear what people are saying and other noises around. We took it in turns to film parts because we all needed to get use to the camera. Some of the parts that were in the actually sequence we didn’t film because we were not available to get these objects so we either missed them out or improvised.

What I have learnt from filming this is that we need to get props ready before we start filming, we should use a tri-pod.

Things I need to learn are, how to editing the sound out of the sequence.

 

School trip to the BMI

We had the opportunity to go to the British Film Institute in London. We went there to meet guess speakers and watch opening sequences of different film. We got advice on what to do and what not to do when making our own thriller.
We got told to take this things in consideration when filming our openings:
- Genre
- Narrative
- Character
- Atmosphere
- Setting
A website we looked at was http://www.artofthetitle.com/. They title sequences we watched were: catch me if you can, Nepolian Dynamite, Dawn of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs the world. They each had interesting ways of presenting the titles.

One of our guess speakers was Dexter Fletcher, he talked about how to make a successful film because he had just finished directing his own film.

One of our other guess speakers told us that we shouldn’t use these things in our opening because they have been used before and get used regularly

- Saw: victim tied up
- Scream: hooded stalker follows victim
- Waking up: clean teeth, brushing your hair, leave house
- Se7en: killer stabs Polaroid pictures
- Lock Stock: gangsters play cards
- Flashback or flash-forwards

Risk Assessment

Yesterday in class Andrea did a risk assessment for our area we are filming in, we need this so we know what we need to look out for and what we can do to stop our self from getting hurt.

Preparation for filming

Today in class we gave each other task to do in order to prepare for our filming which will be taking place on the 22nd December.

Mood board: Andrea

Logo: Georgina

Test shots: Georgina

Costumes: Danica

Story board: Georgina

AS set list: Danica

Shot list: Andrea

Risk assessment: Danica

Permission: Danica
Title Remake Filming - Georgina
Editing - Andrea, DanicaIndividual Brainstorm - One each
Group Pitch - One each, using my final idea
Mood board - One Each
Script - Together
Recces(photos) - Andrea
Costume Design - Georgina
Animatic 2 mins - Danica

Parity Remake - Storyboard and Timeline

The other day Danica, Andrea and I met up and filmed our remake of Parity. We filmed it the the toilet at our school. I was the filmier, I tend to tilt the camera when shooting some of my shot because i think that it make the images look better and it is a better angle to use but as you will notice in the film i could not turn the camera back round so it is straight. So next time i film i will make sure i keep the camera the right was up and still.
Here is the story board:

The Parity remake:

Group meeting

Yesterday me and my group met up at my house and we filmed our remake of the Dexter sequence. It took 2 hour's to film the sketch.

Crime thriller film

Today in class we got split into to certain groups and we had to research different things, i got what makes a good Crime thriller film that appeals to a 18-25 year old audience, if you look at danica's blog she had to do An espionage/political thriller appeal to 18-25 year old male audience and andrea has on her blog, A psychological thriller appeals to 15-25 year old female audience.

I did a mind map/brain storm to do my research: 

Splice

Today in class we looked at the opening title sequence of Splice. We did a time line of when the titles appear in the title opening and how they are shown on the screen.

Evaluation of our Preliminary task

Write up of our preliminary task '6 ways to kill your husband'

When looking at our preliminary task, when the whole thing was completed. I thought we completed it really well, we managed to complete the brief quite well. The only bit we needed to work on a bit more was our camera angles for example the 180 degree rule.
Some of our conversations didn't flow but thats something we also need to work on. We used shot reverse shots and match on action on our opening which worked very well.

Story Board+ Script: 6th October 2011

Today in our lesson we had to take photos for our story board that goes towards our preliminary.
This is our story board, we made a couple of mistakes when taking the photo because this was our first time photographing a story board.
In shots 2+3 we took the photos from to far away and need to crop them down when shooting an also use a different angle in shot 2.
Also in shots 6+7+8 we jumped from photo to photo and it didn't look very continuos, so next time we are going to need to put some more shot in between the photo.
Sophie was our camera operator, Andrea was the police women and also our lights director.
Story board

1. Policewomen walking into room
2. Lara sitting in the dark room 
3. Policewomen sitting down
4. Lara and police women talking
5. Policewomen gets out the photos
6. Both lara and policewomen look at photos
7. lara looks at 1 one
8. both talk about the deaths in depth
9. Man walks in, policewomen walks out
10. Man gives piece of paper to lara
11. Man walks out
12. Lara looks at the paper and walks out with piece of paper in hand.

Look at sophies blog for our final preliminary film: http://sophiedaniels-media.blogspot.com