More In Depth Details...

Here are more in depth details towards our thriller based on mis-en-scene.


For costume, we would like the murderer to wear all black clothes. Black hoodie would be acceptable as it will hide the killers face, or blur it abit.


Here are more in depth details towards our thriller based on mis-en-scene.


We also have some ideas of film settings.. the first is Stuarts house, where we can use his little sisters bedroom. The next is my friend Daniel Woodlands, sisters bedroom and the final idea is to put up a poster in the common room to find anyone who has a suitable bedroom.


Hopefully we will find a setting as soon as possible.




After much thought we finally found the music for our film. It is from sound snap and is the sound of a music box. When it comes to filming we are hoping to go alot slower. Weirdly enough, i have a musical box at home with the exact same tune on it.




The props we will need are photos of young children, which will be scattered across the floor. We will also need the toys so they can be scattered across the floor and we will also need a musical box so we can take shots of the box.




The lighting of the set, will be dark enough to hide the killer but not to dark to hide the objects in the room. We cant make the mistake of turning the light on for some parts of the shooting as it will mess it up.


Finally we have decided to use Stuarts dog, this will be alot easier as we dont have to transport dogs around.




We are hoping to film by after the christmas holidays.

Thriller Questionnaire-

The Questionnaire that we made and gave out to find out what type of things people liked.

Please tick the following boxes:
1)What gender are you?

Male

Female

2)What age range do you fit in?

-15 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-35 36-40 41-45 46-50 51+




3)What sub-genre do you expect from a thriller?

Action Thriller Supernatural

Conspiracy Legal

Disaster Crime

Drama Horror

Legal Medical

Psychological Spy


4)Would you want a thriller to be believable?
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5)Where would you like your thriller to be set? (Please be specific about details to the set)
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6)Do you like your thriller’s opening to end at a ..........? (if other please state)

Cliffhanger Problem Mystery Other……………………

Please answer this last question as fully as possible.
7)How would you like your thriller to begin? What do you expect from a thriller?

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8)Where you disappointed be any thriller film recently?
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Mis-En-Scene details.

Here is some of the mis-en-scene details that are needed for the thriller opening.

Costume

The main person will be wearing normal casual clothes. The killer will be wearing all black to be able t blend into the darkness of the room.

Sound

The main sound coming from the film, would be the music box. This would give an eerie sound and feel to the opening. At the end of the film, we are not sure whether the music should stop directly during the action, i.e when the object falls to the ground, or to stop when the camera cuts to blackness to roll the titles.

Setting

We are hoping to set the film in a childs room. It is set in 21st century, and the room has to be very dark, but not dark enough to be able to use the night vision mode, as it will ruin the effect.
Therefore it will be shot hopefully in mid-afternoon/ early evening. The room might be messy or may tidy but we have not thought about the small details to the actual layout. We will shoot the whole opening in one room as it is alot easier for us and alot quicker (we hope) :)

Props

The only props we need are the basic childrens toys, the music box, and photos, drawings and other children stuff. To show the viewer at the beginnig shot that we are in a childrens room.

Camera Script

[Ihave copy and pasted this onto my blog off of bex's because it will be exactly the same for all of us in our group.]

This is a camera script for the pitch we have chosen.


Throughout Music box sound is constantly on:
Setting: Inside in a young child’s bedroom. Mainly in a child’s bedroom, no other rooms in the house.

Fade in:
Camera panning across the floor of the room, camera showing pictures and toys of the child. In the background, sounds of a music box.
Camera still panning across room, pans onto person sitting, looking up towards him.

Clean cut to:
Over view shot, looking over the persons shoulders zooming into the photo or item in his hand.

Clean cut to:
Shot looking into mirror, mid-shot. At an angle to show the person’s face. Also able to see the door behind him, open slightly.

Clean cut to:
Shows a dog walking into the room and lying down on the floor, beside the person’s feet.

Clean cut to:
Mid-shot of the person sitting on the bed, you see the door close quietly behind him.

Clean Cut to:
P.O.V of killer walking up behind the person.

Clean cut to:
Another overview shot of person looking at the object.

Clean cut to:
Close up of person sitting on the bed’s head. You then see the killer’s hands come from behind the persons face, yo-yo string.

Clean cut to: shot of music box, noise is getting slower, final stops.

Clean cut to: Object, person was holding falls to the ground, you see feet of killer running out.

Cut to black.

Witch Pitchs??

After presenting our three pitchs, our teachers decided which one would be a good opening to make. My one was sooooo good it never even got a say. After much discussion we all decided to do Bex's opening. This was because it had the best effect with it, Especially with the music boz giving the errie music effect.

To make it perfect we will need to change a couple of things, i.e changing the knife to something else to kill the charactor with. This is because the knife has been used too many times in films.

We keep coming up with new ideas for filming and so we write them down and teel eachother our ideas.

filming should be pretty good as long as we get every ting sorted.

three pitchs

Me, Becky and Andi and Stuart came up with a pitch idea each for our main bit of filming. An opening to a Thriller film.

NATHANS IDEA
I came up with the idea of a peaceful area and then cutting to a close up of a persons legs running. You then see a close up of his face and a POV shot of where he is looking behind him. You then see something jump out at him and he stumbles over. We dont see what it is that jumps at him but we see a glimpse of it. You then get anothere POV shot of him looking forward towards the woods as if to think of somewhere to hide. When he is in the woods we see him looking around and stumbling. We can also see shadows inbetween the trees. We would aslo get a POV shot of him looking around, again seeing shadows but this time there would be more. It would then cut to out side the woods and you hear him scream. It would then pan off like how it was when it started as if nothing happened.

BECKYS IDEA
Becky came up with the idea of a person sitting in a small dark oom with toys spread across. The perosn would be looking at a photo that he has in his hand. There would also be a music box playing in the background. You then hear the door opening slowly and the camera cuts to the door. You get a sense of relief when you find out that it was the dog that was coming in. It then cuts back to the person sitting on hte bed. The door then slowy closes and the dog goes to lie down. The door slowy opens back up and the Dog sarts to growl. The person sitting down asks whats up but does not turn around. The camersa does a close up of the door and sees someone comeing in. You then get a POV shot of the attacker going up to the person sitting down. You see their hand slowy move around and then speed up to cover the Victums mouth before they can scream. As this happens the music boxs suddenly stops.

ANDI AND STUARTS IDEA
I copied his off of Stuarts profile because it was so much easier than typing it out =]

My idea that I am going to pitch starts off with a man walking his dog down the edge of a field with long grass/corn. Then he lets it off its lean and it goes running in the grass. The cuts here are quite slow, with a few mid shots, close ups on the mans face and point of view shots from his looking at the top of the grass shake as the dog runs about in it. Not much sound can be heard just the rustling of the grass, this silence and the close ups of the mans face make him seem very alone and defenceless. Then suddenly the grass movements stop. He waits a moment staring at the grass and calls out a few times for his dog. Then a point of view shot from the grass could be used here to make it seem like there is something in the grass, adds to the tension. He waits a few more moments, you can see he is becoming worried and he starts to wade through the grass towards where his dog was. Lots of close ups would be used here to add to the claustrophobic feel of the grass all around him, gives impression hes walking into a trap. Then point of view shot as he parts the grass to the place his dog stopped, but you don't see anything, then it cuts to a close up on the mans face to show his reaction.

Work Towards our Preliminary task

Planning
So far, we have choosen who we would like to be with for filming. I choose to go with Bex, Stuart and Andi. Next we decided which lessons we all had free so we could film then. We all agreed that either a Wednesday, a Thursday or a Tuesday were the best days to do filming.
After studying all of the different camera shots and techniques, we started to plan our preminilary video. The film could be no longer than 2 minutes.
Bex then wrote up the camera role, which included all the different shot types and techniques that we wanted to include in our film, as well as any dialougue that we wanted in our films. We all helped with ideas while Bex typed it up.
While we were doing that, me and Andi were also drawing up a rough version of the storyboard, this helped to show what shots we would hopefully use in the filming.
Our group then tryed out both a still camera and a video camera, to get use to the way they work. Unfortanlly I was away when we tryed out the vidio camera so did not get used to the camera.
Our shooting date is lesson 4, Wednesday 19th November.

Filming
Before we started to film we needed to find some actors to be in our film. This is because we were not allowed to be in our own movie. In the end we found 2 people who would be in our film. These were Shuan and Laura in year 13. Stuart had also drawn up a "snap-board" on a white board. This was to say what take it was and to brake up the filming.
For our filming we decided to go and use the Art corridor and the 6th form art room. This was because it is a quite corridor and the room is easily accesible.
Unfortanlly we did not all agree on the script and so we kind of improvised as we went along, which was interesting to say the least.
To start off with we were going to have Shaun walking along the corridor but he was to tall for the camera. We then decided to use Laura instead. All of us had a go in using the camera and thinking of what we could do to make it better.
We had fun experimenting with the camera and findin out what could work and actully working the camera.
We did go a little bit over the hour we were surposed to have and we went about 15 miniute into lunch.
Are editing is due to be on Monday the 24th @ 1:15-3:15

Editing
When we got the chance to edit we did find out some problems. One of them was we kept on changeing which side we were on when filming the shots. Another one was that when we filmed oppisite a window, the light kept on changing and it made Shuans head look dark on one side but light on the other.
We did get it all finished in the 2 hours and we have only a little bit left to do like the tittles and some little adjustments. We are hoping to do that soon.
We all had a go at the editing and i think that all we need to do is just keep on playing about with it and experimenting with it.
We have now finished all of our editing. All 4 of us did some on Monday mourning and we got most of it completed. Later on me and Becky finished off the little bits to tidy it up and then we renderred it and burnt it onto a DVD.

Here is our final peice for hte Prelimary task.
[COMING SOON!!!!]

BBFC and Classification of films.

BBFC
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is an independent company which has watching and classifing films for cinema since it was set up in 1912. It has also been classifing videos since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984.

Cinema
The BBFC was set up in 1912 by the film industry as an independent company to try and work out a system of uniformity to the classification of film for everyone.

The films can be changed by the local councils who can have more power. They may overrule any of the Board's decisions i.e passing films they reject, ban films they have passed, waiving cuts, instituting new ones, or altering categories for films exhibited under their own licensing rules.

Video
In 1984 the Video Recordings Act was passed by Parliament. The act stated that, any video recordings offered for sale or for hire in the UK must be classified by an authority selected by the Secretary of State. The President and Vice Presidents of the BBFC were choosen to do carry out this act and were charged with applying the 'suitability for viewing in the home' classification. At this point the Board's title was changed to BBF Classification to reflect that classification played a far larger part in the work of the Bored than censorship.



Classification
The Classification categories are:

Universal - Suitable for all. Contain a possitive framework and contain no referances to violence or anything that could upset young children.


Parental Guidance - General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children. Young children are adviced not to watch alone. Some scenes may be unsuitable for younger viewing.


Suitable for 12 years and over.
No-one younger than 12 may see a ‘12A’ film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult.
No-one younger than 12 may rent or buy a ‘12’ rated video or DVD. Responsibility for allowing under-12s to view lies with the accompanying or supervising adult.



Suitable only for 15 years and over
No-one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video or DVD.


Suitable only for adults.
No-one younger than 18 may see an ‘18’ film in a cinema. No-one younger than 18 may rent or buy an ‘18’ rated video.


To be shown only in specially licensed cinemas, or supplied only in licensed sex shops, and to adults of not less than 18 years.



The Video Recordings Act 1984
The Act requires the BBFC to have special regard (among the other relevant factors) to the likelihood of works being viewed in the home, and to

-any harm to those likely to view a video
-any harm to society through the behaviour of those viewers afterwards
In considering these issues the Board has in mind the possible effect not only on children but also on other vulnerable people.

The Act further requires that special regard is paid to the manner in which the work deals with

-criminal behaviour
-use of illegal drugs
-violent behaviour or incidents
-horrific behaviour or incidents
-human sexual activity

The Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937
It is illegal to show any scene ‘organised or directed’ for the purposes of the film to involve actual cruelty to animals.

The Protection of Children Act 1978
It is illegal to show indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child (under the age of 18).

The Obscene Publications Act 1959
It is illegal to show a work which is obscene. A work may be found obscene if, taken as a whole, it has a tendency to deprave and corrupt (ie make morally bad) a significant proportion of those likely to see it.

Human Rights Act 1998
Among the rights established under this Act are the right to private life and family, and the right to freedom of expression. When classifying works, the BBFC will have regard to the impact of any decision on the rights of any relevant person.

The Act permits such restrictions on freedom of expression as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

The Licensing Act 2003
Cinemas require a licence from the local authority in which they operate. The licence must include a condition requiring the admission of children (under 18) to any film to be restricted having regard to the recommendations of the BBFC. The licensing objectives are;

-the prevention of crime and disorder
-public safety
-the prevention of public nuisance
-the protection of children from harm
-Other unlawful material

In carrying out its responsibilities, the Board will have regard to whether the material itself appears to be unlawful in the United Kingdom, or has arisen from the commission of an unlawful act.

Homework--11/10/08

Films that I am going to be doing quick rundown of the intros of are: "Dead Calm" and "Leon" and "Jaws".

Dead Calm
-The titles are quite and fairly calm.
-The names fades in and out while the music slowly gets louder.
-Cuts to train, gets louder and busy.
-Very busy as people get off train, all searching for family-is Christmas, want to be with family.
-One guy can't find anyone. We start to think he has some significance in the film.
-Spinning camera-confusion-lost. Get a point of view shot panning the area.
-Cut to police pointing in his direction, check book. What’s wrong/what’s he done?
-Cut to inside car. Rubbish weather, side lines with mood.
-Inside the hospital, busy, lots of background noise.
-Lots of blood on face = how bad accident was.
-Zooms into wide open eye, freaky look in eye - slow fade to flashback, railway sign, place they are going to?
-Bad weather, bad mood, something bad going to happen?
-Med shot of woman singing, staying cheery.
-Med shot to baby getting out of seat. Close up of woman’s face. Worried something bad is going to happen.
-Cuts to all Slo-Mo as crash happens.


Leon
-Directed by French director Luc Besson.
-Spooky music started off with the tittles - music was like a violin and a horn.
-Ariel style camera tracking across the lake and forest. Calm areas, false sense of security. Cut to inside the City where it is not piratically busy. again, false sense of security. Close up of sign "Welcome to Little Italy". Sets scene, know where you are.
-Cuts to inside a small dark building, little natural light. Feels small.
-Close ups of two peoples eyes and mouths. Shown "Target".
-Cuts to people walking towards a door and the "target" is at the front of the group.
-Cuts to inside a small room wiht cameras, see guy look up at camera and he is let in. Shows that this group of people are worried about some one getting them.
-The group exchange conversation and then cuts to outside a room with the old man. Casts a shadow over him and this makes you wonder what is going to happen.
-Close up of the walkie talki and cut to person ringing it, can see a gun to his mouth. Tells guy on other end that there is someone here to see him and he is "serious". Cut to inside the room and you here a silenced gun shot through the phone. Cut to other room and you see blood splated aganst the wall and the a broken phone spread across the floor.










Jaws
-At the start of the scene the boy starts to walk up the beach towards his mum. The camera angle for this shot is a long shot and it is panning across the beach when we first see the boy. We guess that this boy has some significance in the film. When he asks his mum for longer in the water, and she trys to denie it, inside we want her to give him ten more minuites because we start to get emotionally attached to him.
-While Brody watchs the water we get the feeling that something is going to happen and that he may not be able to stop it. The camera angles that are used also give the audiance a sence of being there with the point of view shots.
-When the og and boy run into the water we can see that they are haveing fun but it also gives a sense of helpless.
-The long shot of us seeing the dog swimming out in the see with a stick shows us how far out he is and how helpless it is. This also makes us wonder if it could be the next victim of the shark. #
-Brody seeing the boy floating on his yellow lilo shows us another potensional victim and how helpless he is. Brody is also getting paranoid that someting is going to happen but he does not know who to watch because there are so many people in the water.
-The man in the black hat who swims underneth the boy makes Brody jump because from a distance it does look like a shark. The audiance also see this and so think that it is the shark. The camera shot also shows how far away the boy is and how helpless he would be.
-It then cuts to a medium shot of Brody and a sunburt man is blocking his view. We then get a point of view shot from Brody. And because the man is in the way, we cant see the water. This makes it annoying for us and we can also feel how the charactor is feeling.
-While Brody is trying to see over this mans body towards the water you hear a woman scream. This makes both the audiance and Brody jump because you think someone has been attacked. It then cuts to the water and the woman who has screamed and you find out it is a false alarm with someone messing about and picking her up.
-When it cuts back to the beach, you get a tracking shot of a group of young children running into the sea and splashing about. This makes the scene confusing and you wonder if any of them could be the victum.
-It then cuts to a point of view shot from under the water and you guess that it is the shark. From this shot you can see all the legs of the people in the water and you wonder who could be the victum. This creates tension and a "edge of your seat" atmosphere becuase you wonder who is going to get it?
-Once the shark has choosen its victum, it cuts to a long shot and you see the attack from a distance. This makes you want to know what is happening and you want to see it in more detail.
-While the attack is going on there is general panic of everyone and there is lots of jump cuts of lots of different views. This creates confusion on the screen and makes it look really frantic.
-Once everyone is out of the water it suddenly goes really quite. It is like the calm after the storm. This gives it an eerie atmosphere. You then get a close up tracking shot of the blood stained lilo washing up onto the shore. This only shows the damage the shark has done but not actully the size of the shark. This makes the audiance want to know what has done the damage.

Homework [16/10/08]

My film will be a thriller style where there are a group of people who are taking part in a reality TV programme. The programme will be set in the infamous Alcatraz Prison and have 12 contestants, each hoping to win the $100,000 prize. To win the money they will need to take on a series of challenges and keep their wits about them during the nights. There is also something that the TV production company do not know about in the prison.

Costumes, hair and make up.
 The costumes that the stars will be wearing will be styles form the 1980’s because that is when the film is set. E.g. the cloths will be bright colours.
 Also, the hair styles and make up they will be wearing will be very 80’s:












Lighting and colour:
 The lighting will be very dark as it is set inside of Alcatraz. This will set the mood for the film as well.
 All of the hallways would be lit by one or two very dim lights and this also sets off the scene.
 Another reason why the film would be dark is because it means the “thing” that is still in the Prison can hide and disappear a lot quicker. This means that the contestants will only see flashes out of the corner of their eyes.

Actors.
 My actors would be