Idea one sketches:

sketch one idea(sorry its upside down didnt know how to change it)

Location shots from google.

This is our location on google maps. as you can see the church is in an urban area, a little village. We liked the idea of having not a lot of people there as it feels more creepy as you don't know who he is there for. Our location was Morton Village near Bourne.
This shows the where abouts we was and the type of place it was and as you can see it was, creepy, damp, quite area, old fashions. And this fitted what we wanted in out thriller to make it more effective. Because the church was so big, this meant that we could take high angled shots to make it look like a big place. And also this was good because there was a lot of parts in morton where we would do outside shot of him walking to the church. This shot we got from Google maps show you what types of things we like about the church and what made ti effective for out thriller like, how big it is, the stain glass windows, the door how it was so different, and all the crosses to show the religion.

Voice over (Dialogue detail)

God, so Christians say, is three things. God is all powerful: meaning there is no limit to what he is capable of doing. God is all loving, he loves each and every creature on this earth equally with a compassion we cannot comprehend, and God is all knowing there is nothing in this universe that our god is not aware of.

However these statements in turn create a paradox. God can not be three things simultaneously, as if he were, evil and suffering would cease to exist. Yet it is apparent that evil and suffering would cease to exist. Yet it is apparent that evil and suffering do still exist in the world. Therefore god can surely be two of these things. Perhaps God is all knowing and all loving and ours is a God that simply doesn't have the power to eliminate evil. Is ours is a God with no power, is one worthy of our worship? Or perhaps God is all powerful and all loving and does make an honest effort at eliminating the suffering that plagues our world. Yet ours is a God that simply doesn't know about all the evils, yet if ours is a God oblivious to our pain, is he one worthy of our worship? And lastly consider this , our God is all powerful and all knowing. And maybe...just maybe...ours is a God that simply doesn't care?

So the question is... which world would you rather live in?

This is what we want to be saying over the top of out thriller. This i saying or a confession on for all the sins he has done. We decided to make it so they man would be saying as the film is playing so you got to know what its about. We are thinking for this dialogue that he would have a deep voice as we think it would be highly effective. It would sound more elderly. We wanted a mixed emotions in this dialogue saying hes evil hut also saying he is powerful and respected. The idea behind this would be that he want God to forgive him for his sins, but does he really believe what he has done is forgivable. Thats why he's questioning if he is really? And would you forgive him for his sins he has done?

Mood boards that have influences us.

 

Influences ideas on our thriller

The film "Smiley"-trailer

I liked the music in the films it kept you on the edge of you seat and made you want to watch it as you want to see who he is and what he does?
The music give it a tense feeling, i liked the way that in the clip it flashed back and used alot of fades to blacks to make it thrilling. How it had subtitles when it was playing though the clip. Showed some storey behind it but not to much.

"The Devil inside"

This film made us think about the idea of having a religious theme to is. Its interesting, and could lead to any story lines. And we though that using the religious theme that could been having a voice over when the film is playing.

Saying parts of the Bible, praying to the lord. How it showed symbols as it was playing showing signs of religious give it some tense feelings 

"The exorcism of Emily Rose"

This film give us some idea for our thriller as we like the idea again of a religious theme. Also like the idea in this film that is had the lords prey it is a story within a story.

I liked the idea of the voice over instead of music. so its you that's telling the story. 

Shooting schedule for the day

- We are planning to shoot our thriller on the 26th of November 2012.

- We plan to get the cameras and the tripod at 9:00 before school starts so we have everything.
Plan to meet Ben and Elliott at Morton church at half 9.

- We thought it would be best we we did the outside shots, setting the sense shot on the where about's the thriller is happening.

- We thought it would be good to use two cameras so we got twice the frames, so when we came to editing the thriller we could pick out the best frame to use.

Ben and Elliott shot with one camera.

Becky and Luke shot with the other.

- About 10:30 we would then go to the church and shoot some frames in their.

- We had to be out the church at 11 because their was a wake at the church so we had to leave then.

- As at 11 we got told their was a wake on we thought that we shot take some more shots of luke being in it making the thriller come together with some acting.

- At 1 we would then go back to the church to do some frame of luke being in the church and then telling the story. we are thinking this would take about 1 and a half hours as we needed to get the lighting and the shot were right and how we wanted them.

- During this time we would be making a script for the talk over in the thriller, something from the bible related to what was going on.

- About 3 ish we would film out side the church and get luke leaving it, get some shots of the church outside.

- about 4 we would have got all the frames we want as we a two cameras to film on.

Costume plan

The costume plan we have was that the man  would wear fully black:

as we  thought it would be better effective like this. we only have one actor in our thriller so there is not many costumes in it but we have chosen to have him in fully black as we thought it would make him look smart, and make him plain looking. The actor in our thriller is luke doyly, and he play a many who is coffessing his sins on what he was do in the past.their will be a vioce over the film telling you a story and him praying and confessing to god.

Detail on the actor

Actor playing in our thriller is Luke Doyle- confession to the lord on his sins and wrong doings:

Luke Doyle played a man who was confessing his sins in a church. Begging for forgiveness, what's to know why he did it? And what he can to forget what he did. We picked Luke to play as our actor as we thought it would look better with someone who looked older them it just being a AS level thriller. We thought it would make it more thriller the older he was. We also chose him to play in the thriller as he as quite a defined face feature to make you want to look at his eyes. He's eyes seem to want to tell you more. Could make the audience believe what he is doing.

 Ideas two for out thriller!!

 The idea we have chosen to do was our prelimary idea were we had the idea of being kept hold, and noon knws where you are. where someone want you for something you dont have. information or some money. we liked the action thriller idea.

On this slide we made some notes and words on what we thought our thriller could be about. Using words give us some ideas on what we could do and shows you what kind of things we were thinking about doing.

On this slide is some films we thought linked together to work with the kind of thriller we was looking at doing. These films were an action packed thriller and they gave us some ideas on why the man could be wanted for something. we also like the tense feeling it gave you when you watched them and thats what want to do in our thriller.

•Good interrogation scenes

•Lots of gangs and violence

•All about crime

 Our plot was that someone was brought into a room with a bag over his head, the room would be plain with one light and chairs and desks. We wanted people to think why is he there? what has he done?

•Someone is brought into room with bag on head

•We don't know who It is

•People doing the interrogation are also unknown – makes viewer ask questions

•Who? Why? Who's bad/good?

•Maybe a flash back, quick cuts between past and present.

These were the kind of things we wanted in this idea for or thriller. 

Our location we was thinking about having for this triller idea was something like an abandoned house with these kind of features:

•Dark room

•Prison looking

•Locked doors

•Ware house

•Blank walls

•No windows

As we saw these kind of rooms in the films that made us think about doing our thriller like that. we though having a location like this would make it more thrilling, tense feeling, that would make the audience what to watch more.

The props and costumes would be really simple the costume would be smartly dressed suits to show that they are importance. They would be wearing black so its simple. The props we was thing about using was clearly a bag/sack and table and chair and a suitcase

Thriller locations, shots and inside of the church. Our likes and dislikes of the filming day.
















location shots: our location was at Morton church.
we thought this would be a good place to film as we though that inside was effective for a thriller as it had the meaning of respect, life and death. The shot you could make the thriller a religious one as it could have any meaning to it.

For the thriller we made the actor appear not to much as we wanted to make the audience think about who he was and what he has done to be like that?

We thought about what he should wear and we thought it was best to make him wear all back, dark coat, dark jeans. By wearing dark clothes, we thought it would make the character more mysterious.In most of the shots we got when shooting the thriller you don’t see his face, all you see is the back of him.

We wanted to get the same effect like No country for old men. Were you don’t get to see the actors face till you are well in to it. As we thought No country for old men did that really well.

We liked this shot in the church as we thought it showed religion. Shows you the lighting in the church. We liked the idea for our thriller opening to have 2 second shots of the flickering back from him walking to the church to build up the tension and to make you wonder where he is.

 

We liked the way that the church had no one in made the shot and the shooting more effective. we liked the idea that the church had a massive door and a small door as it make it more thriller when shooting. As the main actor (Luke) came in it looked like he wanted to pray or confess something. we liked the setting as the window from the church gave it light. The tinted windows was really effective as they had pictures of Christ and the windows changed the lighting.






We used this camera to shot as it had good focus and the quality of the shots would be a better quality. We also used another canon camera as we would have twice as much footage and we can compare which ones were better and pick the ones to go in our opening thriller.







i would say out thriller that we have shot would only be a 12 rating, as it does not show any killing or an violence in it. It is a Thrilling and a tense  thriller this is why i thought it would be a 12 rating.

Thriller Questionnare

Please answet these questionsin as much detail as possible, it will give us some good ideas for our Thriller production.

1)How old are you? 5-18, 18-25, 25-35, 35+

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2)Are you male or female? Male or Female

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3) What is your Occupation?

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4) What genre of film do you prefer to watch?
Horror, thriller, romance, action, Sci-fi, and Documentary

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5) How many films do you watch in an average week? 0-1, 1-3, 3-5, 5-7, 7+

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6) Who is your favourite actor?

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7) Do you enjoy thriller films?

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8) What is your favourite all time film?

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9) Do you prefer a simple or complex storyline?

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10) What are you interests and hobbies?

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Preliminary Evaluation

What I felt was successful in our preliminary task was that added a wide range of shot types. We have shot it based on a thriller. We made it relevant to all type of age groups. We stayed in the 180 rule and made sure that there was some dialogue. We kept it fast paced so people can understand what was going on. I felt what went well was that we kept to the storyboard and it made sense. I felt that we kept the camera steady and was well focused. And the editing was successful.

The reason why it was successful was that we planned what shot would look good and would give it a thrilling effect. We made sure that we kept the camera steady by using a tripod; this helped us get the moving shots and still shots. I found that the editing was successful as we made everything continuity, it was a quick but effective opening. We added effects like fade to blacks, using the date and time effect at the time to make it look like a CCTV shot. We made sure that when we shot they was sat in the same place that everything was where it needed to be like we did on the storyboard.

They type of things that didn’t go to plan and that we had to over come was that some of our group was not here so we had to improvise and used other actors. We found it hard to do a high angle shot, as it was hard to get to. And we could have improved our editing by using more lighting and titles to make it more of an opening. And we would have made it so it had more colour. We would have used more props to make it more effective. The lighting as the main thing I would have improved, as it was not very good makes its effect of the sense a bit more inappropriate. The lighting didn’t give it the thrilling effect we wanted to this meant the opening was not very watchable.

The skill knowledge we have used is that we used iMovie to make it more realistic. We have added effects to make it flow better and make sense. We used the skills on iMovie to create the effects like the fade to blacks etc. we used the skills like keeping the camera steady. Also that we used different shot types like close ups, extreme close ups shots, pan shots. We did the 180 rules and used a match on action to create effect. Also used shot reverse shot as two people were talking. This will show the audience that there is a conversation going on. We got told how to is iMovie so we understood what we would do to improve the opening.

What I will do next time to improve would be to have different lighting, to make it more rephrase?  Also I would add more titles to show the audience what is going on, what the film is called, who is in it etc. the result of the lighting made it less effective. We could have used more props and ass more effect to iMovie. Also would have made it so we didn’t have to get people to be actors because people in the group were off. This only happened because people in the groups we not there when we was filming this was the course of that. 

 This was the final piece to our Preliminary task!!

No country for old men

 

 

The opening for no country for old men starts as still shots on landscapes. This is showing the audience that there is no one there. But there is s person speaking in the background telling a story. This is giving a sense of mystery as the audience doesn’t know where they are and what the story is about. There are no sounds apart from the sound of the man talking and sound of faint wind. This shows that there is not much going on. Make you want to know what’s going to happen next. The landscapes are extreme long shot; this shows where they are and what type of place they are at.( shot below)

In this frame there is two people and they are shadowed so you can’t see their faces. This shows that they don’t want you to know who they are at this point of time gives tension about not know who is who? The person who is telling a story stops and there is minimal talking at all. the shot is a point of view shot showing that they are getting into a police car, this shows that something has happened but we don’t know what. As they drive away in the police car, it shows the landscape that no one is about so how could someone get caught by the police? Shows how empty everywhere is.  Make the audience think that they must have just caught him doing something wrong because if they wasn’t there they would have never known as it’s so empty. Still you don’t know what’s happened and who is the hero or the villain.  (This does not have a screen shot)

The screen shot above clearly shows the differnces between the hero and the villian. The main focus is on the man holding the phone who seems to be sorting out where the man is going . at this point he is very vunrable, he dosent know what is going to happen next. But as you can see the man is the background is blurred and has a darker lighting this shows he is going to do something bad, and you still cant see what he looks like. Its still a mystary on what he looks like. He standing up which shows hes going to do something bad. This is a mid shot showing all the inportent bits to show the audience that he is vunrable and he is going to get hurt or killed by the man behind. (shot above)

 

In this frame it shows the attack on the police man. Show the struggle of the police man. He’s trying to get out, defend himself, but the amount of strength that he is putting in to killing this police man seems like he has done it before. He used what he had to kill him and that was hand cuffs. He made him struggle make the kill more painful. As you can see the lighting in the background is very dark making you focus on the people giving them more lightly. The is no sound people the sound of lost deep breath the sound of struggling. It switches camera action. It’s a low shot showing that they are on the floor.

 

Showing the face and the straight angle that give it more tension. This is a shot level shows all the action. Shows angry and tension between two people. Its shows more drama in this shot, because two people are fighting. This scene also shows that the police man is struggling for breath and is getting frustrated with this man because he is red in the face and his hand grip is very tight which shows more anger throughout this scene. They also tried to show more tension by this man’s facial expressions because by having emotion on their face it adds more tension and is more interesting to watch. So therefore draws the audience in. They stand out whilst there fighting as well which is very important as there are no distractions in the background of the scene making them the main attention and gives a better effect of angry emotions.

 

(Sink shot )

This shot is showing that the murderer of the police man is not fazed by his actions because he’s not in shock he’s just calmly washing his hands it also shows that he can just wash away his wrong doings this shows he doesn’t care and he’s very heartless towards other people, this could show that his background is bad like where he is from. It gives the idea to people that are watching it that he has done it before. He’s not bothered that the police man has hurt him because the police man isn’t alive anymore so he’s happy he’s gone. It also shows how much strength he had to use in this scene because of the cuts from the handcuffs. The show s darkness as there is very dim lighting this adds a better effect to his wrong doings and shows how bad he has acted. The shot is a bird’s eye view; it doesn’t show any facial emotions it’s just shows tension in his hands. It makes the audience look down on him as he has done something wrong the audience are more confused as to why he has killed the police man. It is like the man is playing a game that he can just end but it will always haunt him of what he has done.

Task plan



For this piece of work we have been ask to make a thriller opening which will be 60 seconds, we are expected to do the following:

character opening doors

crossing the room.

sitting down in the chair opposite another character.

Then characters exchanging brief dialogue.

we are ment to use a Match on action, shot/reverse/shot and the 180 rule.

match shot action

Match shot action is an editing technique for continuity. This is editing in which shot cuts to another shot. It is an action shot of the subject in the first shot. This creates the impression of a sence of continuity.

180 degree rule

The 180° rule is a filming guideline that participants in a scene should have the same left-right relationship to each other, with filming only taking place within the 180° angle in which this is maintained in a conversation.

Purpose of the Prelim

To put your learning in to practise- camrea work / editing

To learn how to shoot effective digital video and editing using iMovie.

To apply the rules of continuity editing

To experiment/ to also be creative.

We have to work in a group of 4 max

we have to do a storyboards 25 sketches of shots we are going to do for the opening of the thriller. we aim to make it a minute long and to add all the camera work to show our development.

 we have made it as a man who wants his "gear" he has taken a man and has a bag over his head not knowing why he has been taken. We are wanting to make it action, and thrilling at the same time.
In this prelim i will be working with ben, elliott and myself. we will be then useing iMovie to edit our openings, to improve it and to show that we can use iMovie. This Prelim should be down by the end off half term.

How does Welles create an air of mystery in citizen Kane?

 

In the thriller film citizen Kane Welles uses the technique of having a fade to black at very beginning of the movie he made the gates of the start of the film symbol something like a prison, being trapped, this give me the theory that that it’s a bad place that no one can come in or out. He did a close up of the gate and paned up to make it looks like it’s moving up. But using a fade to black, this is good as it changes where they are this is making it more tense and making the audience confused on where they are? He also uses a close up to the man’s face. This is not showing the audience what he looks like only the more important parts. He saying “Rosebud” is an extreme close up. An extreme close up of his lips saying the word. He says it in a very quiet as it makes it more dramatic. In the film the man drops the snow globe, by the man dropping the snow globe; this shows the lady walk in and shows her refection. It’s an extreme close-up on the globe. At the start of the movie you never see the nurses face, them doing this give it a sense of mystery. There is no conversation in the opening only music and single word talking. This shows the audience what’s happening without convocation. Not knowing what the man died of make the audience think what did he die of? Welles also keeps going to window shot showing that this might be his room, makes the people think what is this window symbolising? I think it could mean that it’s his window to his room,.

Welles makes the audience think why did he die? What was wrong with him? He make the audience think that but doing close up shots of the man and the nurse. Still not letting them know who they are and why they are there. He also does a lot of fades to blacks these seem to flash back to the window. Makes you think what the interest in the window is.

Also Welles has added the effect of sound which is non-diegetic to make it more gripping and thrilling. The non- diegetic sound means that its outside the film it’s not meant to be in the film. It also shows a lot of shadows in the film and the lighting is very dark to make it scarier but the only light in it is from the window. Why is that the only light though?

This is the DVD cover we had to design, we had to design in for a thriller and how we thought a DVD cover should look like. I have chosen The High Tide" as it name as i think it fits great in what the story would be about. i have chosen blade colours Black, brown, and grey as they are the normal colours for a thriller DVD cover. I have designed it to look scary and to make people think what is this about? and why is there a skull on the cover? keeps them guessing.

Common features of a thriller film.

Then common things you will find on a thriller poster is that they have dark colours and normaly a person but they dont show you who they are. There are lot of different colours on the thriller poster the common colours are normally green, black, red and gray. As you can see in this poster for the thriller film 'The humen Centipede' it looks like its looking though a glass window. There is 6 hands shown but you can only see one face this would make you think whats happened why is it showing you this? The font on this poster is all different sizes but the centipede is the bigger word because it catches the audience attention making you think why a centipede? as you can see in the poster that the picture and the background is blurred this would make it look scary. At the top of the poster it says 'Their flesh is his fantasy' that makes the audience feel scared like why is it his fantasy what does he do to the people to get that thrill. This is not a typical thriller poster thought, as normally there is alot of blood on the posters but this one it seems like not alot. this doesnt seem like the normal thriller killing. at the bottom of the poster it says that is it 100% medically accurate, know this make the film more wired  knowing that they can do it in real life as well as in the film.

Batman Begins
batman begins has all the conventions of a being a thriller themed film. As a thriller fil its gripping, and fast pasted.They also have a hero and a villain. the victum is a helpless woman, how ever the villain is the 'scarecrow' in this film.the setting of the film is set in a cold and busy city so they is more people to see what is happening. this would get the audience gripped when they are watchign this film.

This scene is set n a mental prison, dark, wet and creepy. this would leave the audience quessing on what goes on in the prison. The wictunms is a innocent woman who is only doing her job.as she think she is only doing her job this make her more of a vulnerable. when she enters the prison she thinks that she is going to meet with a mental doctor. but she does not know that it is the killer.

The music to the shot i have chosen the sounds have gone faster and it seems like its closing in the faster it is the more gripping it is. also in the shot there is a focus on the 'scarecrow' the background in the shot is blurred as he is telling the innocent woman that she is going to die. This would make the audience more interested in what he is going to do. The sound is making the moment more thrilling, this would make the audience what to know what's going to happen next. This shot is a close up shot (CU) focusing on the two people talking.They have done the shot like this so you know that he is the one you should be interested in not the background.

In this shot is is were the woman is running away from her killer. she is heading to the lift to get away. This shot is showing us that she is moving. The shot is a all round shot as it is showing us where she is going and what she is heading for. the background in this shot is showing us the walls, the lights, and what her seroundings are. The walls look dark and gloomy, they look like prison walls. There is very small light so this would make it more thrilling for the audience as they cant really see what is happening. The light look like they are trying to lead her somewhere as they are all in a like, like they are showing her where to go. like she is walking away from the lights.

In this shot is a shot of her in the lift when is was trying to run away from her killer. The expressions on her face is telling the audience that the killer has caught up with her. The shot is a close up shot again (CU) to show the shocked and scared look on her face, the lighting is very dark give it like a shadow affect on her face to give a shadow of the killer, this would make this moment more anticipating. Having a fast sounds to it makes it more exciting. This shot is more focused on her face to show how she is feeling.

lesson 3

Media language 

Genre: type of film putting them in to groups to create different films.

Horror
Thriller
Romantic
Comedy
Action
Chickflick
Musical
Westen
Fairy Tale
War
Animation

Majar Genre: sticks to the same thing
Sub-Genre: closely related to the main Genre

-To sell the film
- To give the the watches what they expect
-To define and create a star
-Make up of a frame

Mise one scene- is what we see in the frame of the film.it is what is put into the picture.

Genre- Gangstar

what would we see in this type of film? Guns, money, cans, smoking, drugs, bling, alot of ladys.

what would we hear in this type of film? Crashing, music, R m' B.

typical characters? leaders, wanna be's, lead lady, hero, killer.

Framing

lesson 2
Questions we need to know for our exams
what can you see?
whats the main focus?
what angle is the shot taken at?
what type of shot is it?
what is the perpose for it?
what does is symbol? what isent the shot focusing on?
Composition Framing 
rule of three 
when you compose a image or shot and there is a defined gris shape there- over the top of the image.

Golden mean 
- a image at a slanted line - point id intrest 
Framing 
Thriller shot maybe blurred -what you can leave out can be importing. as everything is it there for a reason.

The golden mean draws the eyes down.

extreme long shot (ELS)

- The subject is very clear

-Shows where they are 

-Used in actions scenes or romantic scenes, very spread out.

long shots (lS)

The subject takes up most of the shot

Midshot

shows things in enough detail, picking out what they are. when people are talking hand movements, body language.

Mediam close up (MCU)

mid close up.

when people are talking to each other.

Close up (CU)

Takes up most of the frame *80% of the frame.

Extreme close up (ECU)

extreme detail

needs a reason to be to be that close to someone. 

Cut aways (CA)

The cut aways is used to "buffen" helps editing process.

Two shot 

shot with two people in, the same amount of space for each.

Over the shoulder shot (OTSS)

shows how close they are and to see who they are talking to.

Noddy shot

when someone is talking but they are focus on the main person.

Point of view shot

what you see thats there.