Thriller Opening- Day of filming

We filmed on Thursday 17th November as planned, everything today has gone very smoothly. We arrived at our desired location at approximately 8.45. I really enjoyed the day. We had some issues with the speech part at the end because Liam and Ed couldn't manage to keep a straight face for very long! But this is all part of the filming process and it wouldn't have been so enjoyable without our comical parts!

Thriller Opening- Basic Storyboard

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Here is our groups storyboard, as you can see it is very basic and the sketches are not really challenging, but its enough for us to follow. We have planned out all the different shots and what part of the location we will be using for each. \I think as we know what we are doing to quite a high extent it will run very smoothing on the day of filming which i am looking forward to, our location is perfect and its really starting to come together now.

Thriller Opening- Stuff to complete before filming

We have decided to film most probably next tuesday with permission from Alex Kennedy and his family as it is their house.
We've got quite a lot of stuff to sort out before then, finding props and costumes, maybe visiting the location so all of our team are familiar with it and we can practice where and how the shots will be taken, as we need to us a room inside it will be interesting to look at which one would best for our opening.
We will be looking at the swimming pool to see which window also to use in that building.

Thriller Opening- Name Ideas

We think its time we should start thinking about names! We are having a group discussion about possibilities and reasons why they should be used. We don't want it to be an obvious title and have a spooky edge like most thrillers. Most thrillers have a name that make you fear the rest of the film right from the start such as 'Taken' this gives us an idea into what could happen, it's rather obvious.

Evaporation

Hunt the Hunted

The Delivery - Delivery of pizza and news of the girl in the house, this creates tension and is obvious enough to know the kind of things its about, but less enough to want to know more. 

Hunt the Hunted

Apprehension 

The finding
The last lane

Thriller Opening- Dress code for Tuesday 15th Nov

We are filming the first bit of our film tomorrow, the start where the girl is playing on the lawn in the past when she is alive. I will be wearing socks pulled up and at different levels to represent innocence, lace up shoes with one lace undone again to represent innocence. I will be wearing dungarees as this is a typical thing for a small child, and my hair in bunches.

Thriller Opening- Where to buy the costumes

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/ - This is the link to a well known charity shop Oxfam. We have decided it would be a good idea to get props and costumes that we don't already have hold of from a charity shop, this will be a good cause and help some people out when also being  our supplier of the things we need. I belive we can find what we need from a charity shop, cheap prices and clothes we wont be afraid to get messes resolves a problem for us. I will be the person in charge of the costumes and props, but my teammates also want to buy from here or another charity shop.

Thriller Opening- Music

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Here is our groups final piece of music for our thirller opening

We looked on various websites that allow downloading of free music, but after a group disscussion we decided to create our own. With an apsiering DJ in our group it was the perfect opportunity to create something fresh, new and unique and use skills we had in the group. We used a softwere called 'Garage Band' to create this and it took around 2 hours to finish the piece to how we want it. I am excited about using this music as its completely our own! take a listen from the second link above :)

Thriller Opening- Characters List

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My team mate has wrote about that characters we are including in our opening. We chose to use a child in it because i think it always add to the creepiness and fear factor if they are possessed and not normal because people have a lot of emotional attachment to cute kids.

We needed to have a delivery to make an excuse for someone to come to the house so we picked a pizza delivery boy as they would delivering at night.

The father has to be in it to make it creepy about the unknown girl upstairs...He reacts uncertain and scared byt the information deliverd by the piza delivery boy about his daughter being upstairs, even tho she is dead.

Thriller Opening- Synopsis

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I am very happy with the idea that my group have come up with, it is exciting and spooky and I'm even a bit scared to be in it! The idea of using a child was introduced by me as i think this is always a key way it engage involvement from all ages of audiences. Younger generations will connect as they are closer to the young persons age, and the age of the delivery boy. Older ladies and gentlemen will connect with it due to the fact that most would know what it feels like to be a parent and the thought of a lost, dead or possessed child is often creepy and petrifying. I believe we have got the balance right. We will have this as an 18+ movie, meaning it's probably going to contain alot of gorey stuff and abusive language not sensible for younger people.

I think the idea we have, mixed with the setting we are filming it in will create a very successful opening to our Thriller using typical thriller conventions. We have a sense of sleepy hollow in our opening, the way it's set in the middle of nowhere creates the perfect atmosphere and tension. 

Thriller Opening- Location And Pictures

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My teammate has collected some pictures of our location which is located just outside of Reepham. Its a large house with a long, flowing driveway. It is an old building with lots of windows. On the property it owns a indoor swimming pool with glass panelling windows, we will be using this in our opening. This is just such a perfect location for our thriller and i cannot wait to start working here! We will be using the outside garden to film a short clip for the start of our opening. We will film when there is bare minimum daylight but not complete darkness. Its is quiet and secluded. Perfect!

Thriller Opening- Costumes, Props and Objects

We are not using many props in our thriller opening, which is quite easy. We will need to have a pizza box,   a teddy bear, a bicycle, a ball/Frisbee and a hose.

We need to have a pizza box due to he fact that one of our main characters will be a pizza delivery boy, he will have to have a pizza to deliver so we need to get hold of a pizza box which should be fairly easy to get hold of.

The teddy bear will be for the child character we are having where ever the child is standing, the teddy will be by her side hanging holding one hand lopsided almost dead like. I think it just adds the extra innocence to the child character.

The hose is to create rain if it isn't already raining, it will be sprayed over the pizza delivery boy as he is going up the driveway, we believe this will create tension and add to the typical horror convections.

A bike is purely for a mode of transport for the pizza delivery boy as he pedals down the driveway.

A ball/frisbee is purely for the use in the first clip we are having of the young girl playing, we are doing this  to make out that she has died in a indirect way.

We won't need to be to dramatic with our costumes. The young girl will be wearing a loose nightgown to add the the fact that she's young, innocent and also adds again i think typical thriller convections. We will get this from a charity shop. The pizza boy will have a cap on his head, wearing a polo shirt and some jeans, this will be easy to get hold of, our actor will just wear his own things because he has all of this. The actor playing the father will need to have a tank top over a shirt, some jeans and glasses, our actor for this part is also supplying these from his own wardrobe.

We will be using make-up, hair gel and hairspray in the making of our characters, i have all the equipment for this and it will be minimal but effective in the light and for the camera.

Camera Angles

Panning Shot- The camera moves from side to side, normally used in vast spaces to get an idea of the actions and situations of the scene.  


Tracking shot- A shot that moves forwards and back to follow the characters actions and outline key elements and details in the scene.

Sideways Track Shot- Used to follow a character around a scene and moves left and right on the character.


Tilt Shot- This shot is most known for being used to influence the object of power within a character or the opposite, show vunerability and lack of power in another character. The more powerful the person the more the camera shot would be tilted up. The lesser the power of a character the more the camera would tilt downwards on them. 

Arc Shot- Works with dialogue heavy scenes in a shot-reverse-shot way which allows to show the reactions of the character as the conversation progresses.

Crane shot- The director follows the actions of the scene with a vertical movement of the camera.Zoom shot- Works on the same basis as a tracking shot.