Refilming....

Through the editing process we have come across some shots that didn't fit into the style ofour Thriller. Also some of the shots were with an unsteady hand, and so it wouldn't follow the continueity rule if we used them in our Thriller opening. Therefore we have to go back to our location and refilm some of the footage... including:

1) High angled shot of the victim walking through the bypass of subway. This is to give an effect of a security camera. We have to refilm this as it was an unsteady shot.

2) Low angle of victim walking down the stairs outside. The lighting didn't work the first time, so we might have to reconsider the positioning of the camera.

3) Close up of feet walking down a flight of stairs. This was an unsteady shot, need to use a tripod.

4) Mid shot low angled shot of the victim walking down the stairs inside. The positioning of the victim wasn't right, therefore need to rethink this when on set.

5) Extreme close up of the hand going around the corner while holding the banister. We need to redo this to make the shot flow, as the duration of the footage was not long enough to flow after we had edited the footage.

There are a few more shots that we need to film, which are as followes:

1) Missing Poster Shot

2) Knife shot (either with a shadow or the real thing)

We are still uncertain whether to film the scene of the victims picture being crossed off. If we do decide to use this scene in our film opening, we will use a picture of the victim walking, therefore to give the effect of the killer stalking the victim.



BRING TRIPOD!!!



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Music...

The Soundtrack for our Thriller has now been imported into iMovie along with our footage. Through importing our soundtrack, we have discovered that how something as simple as music, is more powerful and disturbing (when following the conventions of a Thriller) than the clips of film. The music adds a degree of intensity to the film, with a slow murmering beat continueing throughout, like a heartbeat.




Sophie and Millie

Touch Of Evil.

Touch Of Evil is a thriler directed by Orson Welles, the film was made in 1958. In falls within the thriller genre and has the sub-genres of crime and corruption.
Within the opening scene there is a pacey non-deigetic music played through out, in the track there is what sounds like a ticking noise relating to the bomb which is hidden within the car acting as a consatant reminder to us of the danger which will follow. This puts the audience at edge as it creates suspence and an uneasy tension.
There is also diegetic sounds such as the whistle from the policemen directing the traffic, the dialogue from the characters and the everyday noises of a town. The opening is not in technicolour which creates quite a dark a bleak effect.. setting the scene. You are also being introduced to the main characters, all of these conventional to a thriller. The large explosion is where the action really begins as apart from the bomb the only dangerous thilling prop or event. The man and women walking along seemed to me the establishing characters, both wearing fashionable costumes showing they are wealthy, with the man in a suit and the women in a dress and heels. Although within this opening the music doesnt really create much suspence, it more the constant reminder whenever you see the car, of the bomb, always wondering and thinking about whats going to happen next.

Thriller Filming..

We have now completed a large percent of our filming. We uploaded our footage and have found some of the shots dont fit in with our style so plan to re-film certain shots asap. We plan to carry on editing the footage we will use, continuity editing.
During filming we used three different locations which are close together..
1. The stairs in the mulit-storie car park.
2. The subway tunnel.
3. The long pathway.as shes walking
We also used a large variety of different shots such as a low angle shot from behiend the railings of the victim, this could connotate our victim is being trapped as she is seen from our point of veiw walking behiend the bars.
We are also going to make the action on screen fit with the music that we have created on Garage band, to make it fit and create suspence succesfully.
Within our opening we have two characeters the female victim and the villian- the kidnapper/stalker, throughout the opening you never see the threat just form his/her point of veiw shot, this will bring the audience in to a state of unknowing and hooked as they will want to find out who this mysterious villian is, pulls the veiwer in.
The costume of our innocent victim is plain and simple potraying to us she is just an ordinary girl. By making our victim an ordinary girl can make the audience relate to her, allows them to build a relationship, this could also make it seem more real in a sence that this could happen to anyone, even them, making their experience more shocking and disturbing. Causing and effect upon the audience.

Filming

Our plan for today was to film our first section to our opening but due to the weather conditions again it would ruin the continuity aspect. Instead we are changing our filming dates to half term so we dont have the difficulty of getting our actors out of their lessons. Hopefully the weather will settle as we plan to film a small section after school.
Millie and Sophie.

Filming....

Missing Poster scene:
Camera Shots..
-Establishing shot of poster
-slow zoom into the poster

Here is the mock up for the Missing Poster which we have created...

Filming Plan...

Walking down lane scene..
Camera shots..-
-Establishing shot of the lane.
-over shoulder shot of victim
-point of view shot of whislt annabel walking
-point of view shot from the kidnapper, of annabel walking
-Pan shot of walking past
-Extreme Close up of Annabels face showing a scared, confussed and anxious expression

Walking out of School scene..
Camera shots..-
- Establishing shot of school
- A master shot of her walking in a crowd
- Far back long shot of her walking from behind
- Extreme close up of putting her school bag on her shoulder

Garage Scene..
Camera shots..-
- An establishing shot of the garage from the oustide
- A Master shot of the wall covered in photographs of Annabel
- Pan Shot of photo's of the wall
- Zoom in shot of annabels latest picture
- Extreme close up of picture
- Extreme close up of Kidnapper crossing off picture of Annabel

Sophie and Millie

Garage Band

We have created our music in which we will incorporate within the opening of our thriller film. We have created two different tracks which are quite intense, which will create suspense for the viewer. The two different tracks are to be played from the beginning to the very end. One track will be played over the final scene, where her fate is decided. the other will be played on the flashback scenes, to set the mood of suspense.

Costume for 'new' actress

As we are changing our actress. we now have to reconsider the costume/make-up/hair style which the new actress will have. After alot of thought and consideration, we have decided that she will have the same 'innocent' feel that we decided on for the previous actress. To pertray this we have chosen a pale white/cream based costume including:
A white coat
White cotton dress
Black leggings
Black shoes

She will also have her hair tied up with a head band, to show innocence and to make herself look a stereotypical 'school girl'.

She will be wearing neutral make-up, to make her look younger and less grown-up (pertraying innocence again).

Sophie and Millie

Plan of Attack...

Our plan for filming this afternoon is as follows....

Depending on the weather, we will be filming the scene of the girl walking down the lane, being watched...

We will also be creating some music on garageband today, as this is a stereotypical element to create suspense in a thriller.

The Shots which we will be using for the lane scene are:
Establing shot of the lane
Point of view shot of girl and kidnappers
Long shot of her walking
Close up of the back of her head
Extreme close up of her face
Pan shot of girl walking past

Filming

We have come acrossed some difficulties wilst filming due to the weather conditions. As a result to this we will be filming later in today if the weather conditions become filmable.

As there is a issue with getting a younger student to act in our opening we have decided to change the age of our character to 16.

There are a few problems which have come across:
Firstly, our new actress has curly hair, and the pictures in which we were going to use from childhood have straight hair, with different facial features. Though this is not a major issue, as many people change as they get older.

Another issue we have come across is that the tapes from the childhood cannot be uploaded, as do not fit into the camera. How we will get around this, is that we will ask the actress to provide us with tapes from her own childhood. If this isn't possible, we will have to consider refilm the footage from the childhood...

Sophie and Millie