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2. Idea 1
A schoolboy is attached to a radiator in a warehouse type area. Over the
shoulder shot of the man who has done this. Changes after to the boy waking
up in his bed after some sort of dream. He will then get up and go to school.
On his way he starts to notice someone/something following him. The boy
starts to run away then the screen blanks out.
Possible names for the film
-The Following
-Beware
-The Watcher
3. Idea 2
A schoolboy is on his way to the shops when he notices a figure in an
alleyway nearby, he goes to check out what is going on then his vision
goes blurry and wakes up in a warehouse next to another man tied to a
bar.
Possible names for the
film
-Awakening
-Strange times
4. Idea 3
A boy goes out filming in the fields for a project. He starts to film when he realises
someone is around and becomes anxious. He then starts to walk away quickly
becoming into a jog. The man then appears behind the boy as he trips over with
the camera on the floor filming the man beating him up.
The next shot is of the boy with his own camera on the table filming the boy
unconscious lying on a warehouse floor.
Possible names for
the film
-Pre-recorded
- The Film
6. Crick location 1st potential idea.
This is going to be
our abandoned
warehouse.
We chose this location on the left because we know that it
is an available abandoned building. In this screenshot
however there is a car boot sale which will not be going
on when we film as we wont be filming on a Sunday when
it happens. This location will help us hit the thriller
conventions as the ally way in the corner were we will film
part of the film is a confined space and has bars in a
fence. There are loads of shadows which we can use to
hit the thriller convention.
The house below is definitely available because it is the
home of a member of our group. The abandoned building
is only a short walk down the round so it is very practical.
There are also bars down the banisters of this house
which we will film through. we might add in the before the
first shot the character washing his face with running
water from the tap to have more thriller conventions.
This is the
character’s house
where he wakes
up
7. This is the location is near Kingsthorpe
and is a bridge going across a stream.
This is where the character will wake up
tied to another man. In this location there
is bars along the bridge which follows a
thriller convention. However can be
unsafe and dangerous if someone fell in.
There is also a building hear which could
be used in the film.
This is the alleyway where the
character gets distracted down
and then loses vision and passes
out. This is a confined area and
there is a fence with cross linked
bars to make the film hit thriller
conventions
This is the shop
where the character
was originally going
to go until he gets
distracted
Kingsthorpe location 2nd
potential idea
We chose this location
as it is close to a
member off our groups
house so it is an easy
meet up point. The shop
and abandoned bridge
warehouse is also not
very far and is in walking
distance. The bridge
therefore is very
available for use.
8. I will film along this stretch where we
will film the main body of our opening
scene. This is where the character will
be attacked and the camera dropped.
This is a good location as it has several
shadows and running water down the
left hand side to hit the thriller
conventions. However as the stream is
in a ditch there is some health and
safety aspects to consider. For example
breaking an ankle if fell down ditch.
East Haddon location 3rd
potential idea
We chose this idea as it is around one of our
group member’s house. It also makes it easy
for us all to meet up and create the piece of
film with ease. The two locations are a
minute walk in between each other to make
it easy to walk from one to the other.
I will film here for the very start of the filming as it is
one of our group member’s house. This is useful as it
is a very easy place to access. It also it not very far at
all from the area that we will film the main body of our
opening scene. There are shadows round this area to
hit thriller conventions.
10. We chose potential idea three because we feel like it’s a challenge for us to
create a short two minute opening scene that has all the three techniques
we have learnt. Match on action, 180° rule and shot reverse shot. This will
be harder as we intend to have a mixture of film that is filmed from the
actual character filming himself and the standard shots from a fixed
camera. By mixing these together we can get a varied number of shot types
and camera angles. We will do this by editing the normal recording camera
symbols like power and a red circle to show that camera is recording. Using
the a camera that the character will be filming himself with will make the
audience concerned and wanting to see what is happening. This will enable
us to create a disorientated shot that the audience cant quite make out
what has happened. We will try to incorporate the typical thriller
conventions into our film for example running water, bars, shadows, being
chased and isolation. We use running water by using the brook next to the
location were we will film and the character washing his face at the start of
the filming. For the bars and shadows we can use the house stair way bars
and we can create shadows in the house as well. We can have shadows
from the trees in the location to create shadows depending the time of day
we film at, for example 4pm when the sun starts to go down. We will have
the character being chased and trapped to allow us to incorporate these
thriller conventions. During the filming we will mix the locations to have crick
location house and East Haddon's surrounding fields. We can mix these
together through the editing process, to make it look normal we will film
these two scenes about 30mins apart from each other to have continuity by
the time of day and weather etc.
11. I will film along this stretch
where we will film the main body
of our opening scene. This is
where the character will be
attacked and the camera
dropped.
I will film here for the very start
of the filming as it is one of our
group member’s house. This is
useful as it is a very easy
place to access. It also it not
very far at all from the area
that we will film the main body
of our opening scene.
We are
going to use
two
locations for
the filming
this house is
in crick and
the long thin
stretch is in
East
Haddon
Final location
15. Character 1 - Stuart Pierce
(Protagonist)
Acted by Connor Gerrard
16-18 Year old school boy
Interested in technology
Innocent
Very Independent
No close family
16. Character 2 No name
(Antagonist) Acted by
Jordan Townsend
People know very little about him
Although he is always seen
around in a black tracksuit
Looks very buff
Sneaky character
18. Props Secondary camera.
We will need a secondary camera
so that the actor can use this
camera when we film him
pretending to film himself. When
he is actually filming himself he
won’t need to use the secondary
camera.
Rope
We will use this to chain the
character to a object like a bar or a
radiator. The antagonist won’t be
carrying this round with him.
Hoodie
The hoodie will be lying on the
characters bed before he goes
out to film and he will take it
with him when he goes out to
film.
19. Costumes Main character’s costume
White T shirt, blue jeans, dark blue
hoodie and normal van’s shoes.
We will use these clothes because
it is the standard average cloths
that a teenager would wear. This
costume doesn't’t have a thriller
convention. this is because we
want him to look normal.
Antagonist’s costume
Black jumper, black shoes, dark
green moleskin jeans and a black
gas mask
This person will be wearing these
clothes because they make the
character follow some of the thriller
conventions. For example the gas
mask creates a sense of mystery
and uncertainty. The black clothes
show danger and make the
character someone you would
avoid and would’nt want to come
into contact with.
24. Thriller Genre Research
This table shows the
amount of films released in
a certain category. As you
can see thriller isn't the
most popular but still quite
popular due to the amount
of released films in that
genre. The most popular
film in thriller genre is called
Prisoners. I found this
information from the bfi
statistical year book.
25. Prisoners
From the genre Thriller research I found out that the film
named prisoners had a couple different genres along side the
main Thriller. Drama and Crime. We will use aspects of these
genres in our film as this film showed to be popular.
This film has bad things happen to the characters in it. We are
going to have this in our film to one of the characters.
The crime aspect will be heavy in this film as the main
character gets attacked and then kidnapped.
We will not have much if not any drama elements to our film
like prisoners does because even though its popular I think it
will take away the thriller aspects of the film as we only have 2
minutes to fill with media.