Tuesday 13 December 2011
Saturday 10 December 2011
A few weeks ago my group decided on our story line. We decided that we were going to have a strong female character who will kill a male victim.
The film will start with the flash of a camera and you would find yourself in the 'red room', where the female antagonist will be publishing photos and hanging them up on the wall. To establish that the people in other pictures are dead, we will put a red cross through them so that it is easy to tell. We will then use a zoom to go through the picture to establish that the picture she just put up is of her new victim. Going through the picture will then put the audience in the room with tied up male. The male will look like he has just come from a night out, in a smart shirt and a tie. He will have tape over his mouth and will be tied up.
He will start to struggle, and then hear footsteps and the door open. He will freeze whilst the audience are put in the position where they can see the females feet walk into the room and stand in front of the male.
She will untie her hair, which would have been tied up before, and then walk towards him then bend down to be face to face with him. After this, she will go to grab his face as if to kiss him and he will move away, causing her to slap him. She will then whisper something into his ear and walk around him.
We are trying to regenerate some flashes into this, where she is doing something bad. This is something such as Picking up knifes, carving around his face with the knife, And the impossible task of stabbing him.
She will then brush his hair, and put his head back into place, then walk down the stairs and push open the door.
We are trying to think of something to do with his tie, but at the moment we are still unsure. Hopefully this will go to plan and we will be able to have this exactly how we need it to be.
The film will start with the flash of a camera and you would find yourself in the 'red room', where the female antagonist will be publishing photos and hanging them up on the wall. To establish that the people in other pictures are dead, we will put a red cross through them so that it is easy to tell. We will then use a zoom to go through the picture to establish that the picture she just put up is of her new victim. Going through the picture will then put the audience in the room with tied up male. The male will look like he has just come from a night out, in a smart shirt and a tie. He will have tape over his mouth and will be tied up.
He will start to struggle, and then hear footsteps and the door open. He will freeze whilst the audience are put in the position where they can see the females feet walk into the room and stand in front of the male.
She will untie her hair, which would have been tied up before, and then walk towards him then bend down to be face to face with him. After this, she will go to grab his face as if to kiss him and he will move away, causing her to slap him. She will then whisper something into his ear and walk around him.
We are trying to regenerate some flashes into this, where she is doing something bad. This is something such as Picking up knifes, carving around his face with the knife, And the impossible task of stabbing him.
She will then brush his hair, and put his head back into place, then walk down the stairs and push open the door.
We are trying to think of something to do with his tie, but at the moment we are still unsure. Hopefully this will go to plan and we will be able to have this exactly how we need it to be.
The importance of Storyboards
On Thursday, we discussed with Mr Ford what we needed to do in order for our planning to go well.
We found that as we were drawing our story board, certain things we wanted to be in it we had missed out and we therefore found we had to add them in.
We also found that we needed to think about how long we wanted each shot to be on the screen for, and how long we wanted to put our titles over the scene for.
Also, we needed to think about where we placed our titles to make them the most effective, and also to make sure that they were the same time amount apart so we could ease the audience into the film little by little.
I learnt that we couldn't just make things randomly and the thought process that goes into making each little part of the film is important. I learnt that films have a set time sequence for each shot because the director wants the audience to be eased into the film little by little, and this is what we need to do in our opening sequence.
We found that as we were drawing our story board, certain things we wanted to be in it we had missed out and we therefore found we had to add them in.
We also found that we needed to think about how long we wanted each shot to be on the screen for, and how long we wanted to put our titles over the scene for.
Also, we needed to think about where we placed our titles to make them the most effective, and also to make sure that they were the same time amount apart so we could ease the audience into the film little by little.
I learnt that we couldn't just make things randomly and the thought process that goes into making each little part of the film is important. I learnt that films have a set time sequence for each shot because the director wants the audience to be eased into the film little by little, and this is what we need to do in our opening sequence.
Wednesday 7 December 2011
Storyboard and Planning.
Storyboards and planning are an important part of creating a film because they allow you to visualize your film,which helps when it comes to cutting and editing. You can also know what you want to achieve on an overall time limit. Less time used means that its less time consuming and planning helps you to set out what you want to do, which shows that films made during post production would be more time consuming because your more likely to have to re-film and re-shoot, and it also wouldn't be as easy to cut.
I feel that once we have our storyboard done, that will be most of our planning done. This means we will be able to continue with filming and get things done during the lesson times.
The planning definitely helped me in all my decisions because I was able to find out new information and also know what my group and I needed to think about before we made any big decisions.
I feel that once we have our storyboard done, that will be most of our planning done. This means we will be able to continue with filming and get things done during the lesson times.
The planning definitely helped me in all my decisions because I was able to find out new information and also know what my group and I needed to think about before we made any big decisions.
We will need to cut up our storyboard and change it round in order for our film to come in the way we want it to. We have decided to have flashing sequences, and also have the end in a bright light, followed by titles. This is still being edited, and we therefore haven't been able to take pictures yet.
Thursday 1 December 2011
Our Male Character
Ben Kerridge is our male character. Our male character is going to look like he has come back from a night out. We want him to look older, and we will make sure that he's wearing something that will be easy to change.
- Suit, shirt, blazer, tie, trousers, belt
- Handkerchief
- Wallet - ID - Picture
Our Female Character
Alice, Avey and I were thinking up what we wanted our female character to be like whilst Rhiannon was finishing our story board. We decided we wanted to make our female character dominant and we wanted to make sure that she looked 'seductive'.
we decided on:
we decided on:
- Red dress
- red nail varnish
- lipstick - red
- black heels
- pearls/choker necklace / dangly earings
We think that these will give a sexy, seductive looks to the character.
Locations
We decided to shoot in rooms that were empty in order to give a good effect of our film. Most of our film is in school, and therefore it will be easy to film throughout the days and we can stay after school.
Printing room: Small room in media1 room.
We chose this as its quite small and we can play around with the lighting. Also, it has a weird sound inside it and this will sound good with the horror thriller film.
Torture room: Art emergency exit room.
Printing room: Small room in media1 room.
Torture room: Art emergency exit room.
We are using this room because it is white and empty. Also there are stairs in it which means that it will be easy to get a range of different shots, and this will be good for our film. We can also play around with lighting in here to get the effect that we need, as this will be effective in creating our horror thriller.
Props
We wanted to use a range of props in our title sequences. We needed a range of different things in order to do what we needed and create the effect that we wanted.
This is a list of the props which we think we may need:
This is a list of the props which we think we may need:
- Lights/Lamps
- Shiny red transparent paper, to stick over the lamps to create a red light, which will create an ambiance of our photo-developing room.
- Polaroid Camera
- Weapon device - Knife / Knives.
- Bag/Towel for knife
- Chair
- Gaffa Tape
- String for the line of pictures
- Rope - to tie the man/ male character which is the victim.
- lipstick
- jewellery
We think we need all of these in our film in order to create the right ambiance.
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