Practise Shots

Our group decided to take some practice shots to get used to using a camera (still) and to get familiar with differernt shots we will use in our film.

-Close ups

-Extra Long shots

-Over The Shoulder: Taken over a characters shoulder, can be taken behind or in front.

Can show the action happening behind them, if they can't see it creates tension. Also can show characters importance from a characters points of view.

-Extreme/Medium Close ups: We can see more detail or thoughts that charaters are feeling.

Can also show a voyeristic experience.

-Medium Shot: Taken straight on, not too close or far away.

-Canted Shot: Taken slightly to a tilt or an angle creating a mysterious distorted image/world/place.

-Worms Eye Shot- Taken from below or on the ground a shot looking up at something emphasising it's importance

- low angle shot.

WORKING TITLE

Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London, England. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1984. It produces feature films and some television productions. Eric Fellner and Bevan are the co-owners of the company now.The Co-chairpersons of Working Title are Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. It has been an extraordinary British cinematic success story. In 2004 it made a profit of £17.8 million . As of 2007, all its films are distributed by Universal Pictures, which owns a 67% stake in the company, and many of its recent films are co-productions with StudioCanal. The remaining shares are owned by the company's founders, BBC Films, and private investors.The film company also has a smaller low-budget film brand, WT2 (Working Title 2) which has produced films such as Billy Elliot (2000) and Shaun of the Dead (2004)Recently the company produced Burn After Reading, a comedy starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney. and hit comedy WILD CHILD.

Dr Who is it an international experience or a range of associated spin offs?

Doctor who!

I believe Dr Who is a multimedial brand.
I think that it is mainly seen as a television series with a range of associated spin offs. I don’t believe to understand doctor who you must also keep up with spin off series, websites and magazines etc.

Firstly I believe this because all of the spin offs are related to the new 21st century Doctor although it has been around for many decades independently without the need for magazines and cartoons.
I also believe it depends on the audience, as adults would not benefit from extra medial text that children might find useful as well as a hobby.
For children this extra medial text can turn a television show into a hobby without much effort which I why I don’t think spin offs are necessary to understand Dr Who but can keep children entertained between episodes and series.
I think that there are a lot of spin offs based on the popularity of the show which appeals to many different audience, increasing the interest and buzz surrounding Dr Who.

audience research

To help with the opening of our thriller our group went to the streets, our friends and our families to gain information from the general public to help us find out what people like about thriller films/ We made sure the results where fair and asked 20 females with 10 being over 20 and the other 10 being under 20, we did the same for the males and these are the results.


1) What is your favourite thriller?


It was hard to get an answer for this one as most people didn't really know the full meaning of the term thriller. However films such as Reservoir dogs, Kill Bill and Snakes on a plane scored highly for the males showing they prefer the more gritty action thrillers however the females also went for Kill Bill, Bourne identity and Seven, this shows the variety of audience a thriller has and therefore when making our thriller it needs to be able to appeal to males and females.





2) What do you enjoy most about thriller films?















Using this information gathered we thought an action film would be most popular with our audience. we added voilence to our thriller film with a fighting scene and added suspence by raising questions and keeping mystery about the characters.



3) Do you prefer a male lead role or Female?















although the public wanted a male main role we decided to break stereotypes but with every other actor on screen a male apart our femme fatel we still included thier opinions

4) Do you look for Ambiguity in a thriller film or a more give-away plot line?













we decided to use this information in making our film full of ambiguity so as not to spoil the storyline as it was strongly popular within the male and female audience.




5) Do you prefer Modern day thrillers or the more classic thrillers?












with our thriller aimed at men we decided to go with a modern day themed classic in order to gain as wider audience and this also allowed us to have more fun using modern locations and costumes.




6) Do you like thrillers to be in colour or black and white?
















with these results we shot our film all in colour.



7) Where do you prefer to watch thriller films?

















8) What is your preferred length of a thriller film?

Planning

we needed a suspence buliding introduction of a scene that goes well with the setting of our scene.

The music we think sounds best for this is Portishead Wandering Star.
The album Dummy in which this song was taken from also included the single "Glory box", which has been used in films such as The Craft. It has also been used in television dramas and such as Skins.

we are hoping to extend the beginning beats to prolong the tension for our scene and feel this also sounds like a heart beating which is relevent for our film

Story board!

Shot
1:Lighting: Noir, ambient coming from slit from outside
Shot: Close up
Sound: Non-diagetic: Portishead wandering star Diagetic: His breathing to let audience know there's someone in there.

2:Lighting; Ambient from outside
Shot: Extreme close up of heels
Sound: Non-diagetic: opening of Potrishead Wandering Star to go with her footsteps creating a pulse

3:Lighting: Noir, Ambient through gap from outside as shadow blocks the original light so we know there is someone outside through seeing the siloutte
Shot: Extra long shot, his perspective in the crate
Sound: Diagetic; his breathing increases and sounds of the woman outside opening the crate.

4:Lighting: Ambient
Shot; Extreme close up of her mouth smoking
Sound: Diagetic, emphasis on the sounds of her smoking

5:Lighting: Noir, Ambient as the light shows onto his face
Shot: close up of his face, his eyes adjusting to the light
Sound: Diagetic of his mumblings as we see his panic increase

6:Lighting: Ambient from outside as the sun shines on her ,highlighting her as a main character.
Shot: Long shot, first time shown in full profile.
Sound: Diagetic as she says the only piece of dialogue, which needs to be ironic to a thriller film.

7:Lighting: AmbientShot: Longshot showing two of Monika's men appearing beside her
Shot: medium shot
Sound: Non- Diagtic music begins as before to set up the pulse and fear.

8:Lighting: Ambient shot from outside
Shot: Medium Close up, Femme fatale looking away
Sound: Non-diagetic sounds of the man being beaten up Diagetic of Portishead Wandering Star.

9:Lighting: Ambient
Shot: Medium shot her returning with an object found in the crate.
Sound: Non- diagetic: sound of the man groaning on the ground and the men still beating him Diagetic: Portishead wandering star.

10:Lighting: Ambient
Shot: Medium Close up of her standing over the body walking away, while dropping her cigarette into his blood
Sound: Non-diagetic: her sighing and walking away, diagetic: Portishead Wandering starShot

11:Lighting; Ambient
Shot: Longshot looking in on her as she gets into the car
Sound: Non-diagetic: sounds of her walking and opening the car door. diagetic: Portishead Wandering star

12:Lighting: Ambient
Shot: Close up of back of her head as we see whats going on in the mirror of the action behind her.
Sound: Non-diagetic: car engine diagetic: Portishead Wandering star

PICTURES!

PHOTOGRAPHS!

These are our location images.
Our location is based outside Hewett grounds and is a gloomy unglamorous site perfect for filming our thriller in.
We like the idea of the puddle being used as a reflection so we did not have to directly look at the violence going on in the film; we also thought blood filling this puddle would look good for our thriller.
Our group is going to use the storage crates as a place where one of our characters is held hostage. We will use both the inside and outside of the crates as well as around them. We chose this location as it was accessible and unglamorous.
The crate gave us an idea for the beginning of our thriller and seemed like the perfect place to start shooting.