VLOG - Going through clips & Preparing Props

Filming - Shoot 1: Hannah's House

So today we started filming for our opening, we originally planned to begin filming yesterday, however Sibora was out of London, and couldn't make it in time so we started today. Sibora came over to Westferry to meet me, and then we went back to my house to collect the filming equipment and then headed off to Hannah's house. Below are some videos taken just before we left and on the way to Hannah's house. 

Here are some photos taken whilst in the house preparing to film.

Planning - Production Schedule

Planning - Influential Title Sequences

(coming soon)

Planning - PITCH

(coming soon)

Planning - Storyboard and Animatic

(coming soon)

Planning - Treatment

Our film exlores the psychological and physical limits of a young vulnerable girl. The story revolves mainly around Sibora, who is dumped my her boyfriend for another girl. However instead of being obsessed with her boyfriend, she is obsessed with his new girlfriend, Hannah for stealing her boyfriend. She becomes obsessed to a point she starts stalking Hannah, taking photos of her and following her every move. Sibora's room is filled with photos of Hannah, everything in her room is linked to Hannah in someway. She has been plotting to get rid of both Hannah and her ex-boyfriend. but she has never found the right time. 

Our opening will start off wth some sort of chase. Sibora finds out that Hannah is home alone, via Hannah's Facebook status update. Sibora takes this opportunity to go and kill Hannah. Their houses are are within walking distance away. Sibora finds her way inside Hannah's House and waits for her chance to kill Hannah. Whilst roaming around the empty house, Sibora accidentlys knocks something over, as a result Hannah realises she is not alone. Hannah grabs a golf club for self protection, She notices shadows hovering around the hall way, Sibora come chasing down the hall way with a knife. Hannah runs the other way to the other exit. And shuts the door behind her, with Sibora on the other side trying to open the door, Hannah uses the gold club to block the poor to prevent it from opening. Hannah opens the front door but instead she opens the other door at the same time which leads to the basement and she runs down there. Hannah then jumps straight into the pool and hides there. Sibora finally opened the door and thinking Hannah went out of the main exit she too went that way.

Planning - Costumes and Props

Costumes

Sibora will be wearing a white dress/blouse as this fits the image of a phycological patient , on the other hand Hannah will be wearing pyjamas as she will be at home.

Props

For the opening we will be using props such as; a golf club, a pen knife, laptops etc.

Planning - Target Audience

Thriller is a very popular gener. Those who watch it want to be entertained and thrilled. This is because with thrillers you are more likely to lose your self in the film. And interact with it. Thrillers get your hearts pumping, palms sweating. It relates to escapism and emotional release. So who would be more inclined to watch it? well our thriller opening targets 16-25 year olds. Research shows through samples , 75% of thriller audiences were students.  Both females and males.However attracting more males. The age group are those who seek emotional release and wanted to kept on suspense.

This is a profile of who would watch it. 

Frist person

Name: Tracy 

Age: 18

Occupation: A-level student/ Part time job-sales assassinate at river island 

Hobbies: Swimming, Clubbing, ice skating, thrill seeker for example bungee jumping

Lives: South london with her mum 

Personailty: Tracy is a bubbly person. Very sociable. She is the life of parties and loved by all friends ad family. 

Second person

Name: Daniel

Age:22 

Occupation:Club promoter

Hobbies: Girls, Clubbing

Lives: North london on his own 

Personailty: Daniel is a cheeky chappy. Irrisitable charming looks that girls hearts racing. A big time flirt but a mummies boy. 

Planning - Equipment

As well as the normal JVC Camcorder and Tripod. We will be using this Waterproof camera to film some parts of our opening as there will be a scene where Hannah jumps into the pool to hide from Sibora. This way we will be able to have match cuts as Hannah is jumping into the pool.

Planning - Location

We have decided to set the opening at Hannah's house, and my room, however most of it will be set at Hannah's House.

(coming soon)

Planning - Initial Ideas

After watching a little of The Roommate I was inspired by the plot. Instead of having someone obsessed with their roommate and driving away anyone who get in between them. A girl will be obsessed with her ex-boyfriends new girlfriend.

Practice: PRELIM - Final Product

Practice: PRELIM - Editing

As usual, we transferred all the clips from today onto our hard drive, opened Final Cut Pro and imported all the clips. It was a lot easier to edit this time as we're getting used to using it. We did consider putting in foley sound however, it was not necessary as it was loud enough in the clip, however for some clips we did have to raise the volume .

Putting the clips together.

Practice: PRELIM - Filming Process

Today for the first half of the lesson we filmed our Prelim, it took us just over an hour to prepare and film everything. We had the privilege to film in one of the studio rooms that are fully equipped with lighting.

The room/studio we was filming in.

HI!

Hannah and Sibora rehearsing their lines.

Our props, and the script.

Practice: PRELIM - Preparation, Planning, Storyboard and Animatic

This Prelim is a Match Cut Exercise we must complete before we prepare and film our actual opening.

Brief: Film the following sequence, making sure to use at least one Match Cut, an example of Shot/Reverse Shot and showing your understanding of the 180 Degree Rule (by not breaking it!).

"A Character opens a door, walks into a room, sits down opposite another character and they share a few line of dialogue"

We are to film our prelim exercise 'in the style of' one of the thrillers we have studied, so out of the following sub-genres; psychological, supernatural and action, we chose action. Although i'm not sure if you can tell it's an Action-thriller through the final video. 

The plot is; a women hires a hit-woman to kill her husband as he has bean cheating on her.

In the process of drawing the storyboard,

Script draft.

Storyboard

Animatic