Planning- Roles.

For the planning of our sequence we have all helped each other but have taken on a main task each.

I am in charge of creating the storyboard. This will help us to visualise our sequence.

As Natasha took music she is creating the soundtrack for our thriller. This is because we cant use existant music because of copyright.

Samantha is creating the shot list so we know exactly what we are doing when it comes to filming.

We are not using a script as we believe that having no dialogue will be effective. So Lauren is In charge of organising when we will be shooting the sequence and producing a time chart and sorting out locations for the shoot.

Planning- Development of our idea.

Over the last few media lessons my group members and I have been developing our ideas for our title sequence. Developing the plot and story line has enabled us to create a storyboard and shot list.

Outline:

First of all we would see a man in a garage looking at a dartboard on a wall. The dartboard has 5 Polaroid pictures of girls stuck to it. Four of the pictures have darts through them and there is one remaining picture in the middle with no dart. We see the man picking up a dart but then it cuts to a shot of a girl walking home. This girl is the same girl as in the picture in the middle of the dartboard. She is alone and it is getting dark out. This will create tension and atmosphere. We then see the man that we saw in the garage walking past the girl and the girl keeps on walking. The man then stops and turns round and starts walking up behind the girl. He gets closer and closer to her until he is almost jogging. He then puts his hand on her shoulder. She screams and it immediately cuts to a shot of a dart hitting the dartboard on the "bullseye" right in the middle of the picture. This could suggest many things and will leave it on a cliffhanger ready for the film to explain.

Planning- BULLSEYE!

My group members and I have discussed ideas for our thriller. We all put our ideas forward and came up with 3 ideas that we all liked.

Idea 1!

This involved a man who stalked his ex-wife. The sequence would be distorted and creepy. It would be told from the point of view of the stalker, and we would never see his face. The man has photos of his ex all over his bedroom wall. We get the impression that the man is disturbed and we see him following the woman in her day to day life. We would use non diegetic creepy music to help to create atmosphere and tension.

Idea 2

This idea is based on a murderer who has pinned his 5 victims onto a dartboard. Once he has killed his victim he throws a dart at the picture. We would see the murderer following his victims but we would never see his/her face.

Idea 3

This last idea is a kidnap. The kidnap would take place after school and the victim would be a typical schoolgirl. This sequence would be quite disturbing and we could leave the sequence on a cliffhanger.

After discussing our 3 ideas and weighing up the strengths and weaknesses of each idea we decided that idea number 2 was the best. As a group we have lots of ideas and effects we could put into our sequence to make it interesting and build up tension. As our idea is based around a dartboard we thought that BULLSEYE is the perfect name for our opening sequence.

Update- missed media lessons

Unfortunately i have been absent from my media lessons over the last two weeks. This is because i have been involved in our school production and have been very busy. The show was a success and since it has finished i have been working my hardest to catch up on the work that i have missed.

We have been working towards creating an opening title sequence for a thriller. In lessons we have got ourselves in to groups. I am in a group with Samantha Coutanche, Natasha John and Lauren Halse.

Research- The Secret Window

In class we watched the opening sequence to the thriller 'The Secret Window'.

This opening sequence was very interesting. The diegetic sounds started before the film even began. This was the sound of windscreen wipers back and forth back and forth. When the sequence than started there was a close up of a man in a car behind the steering wheel. We then heard a non diegetic voicover which at first seemed like it was coming from a person maybe in the back of the car, but we discover that it is the man thinking, and that we are hearing his thoughts. Throughout the sequence there are a variety of shots to make the it interesting. The shots that stand out the most are the close up, point of view shots and the follow shot. I also like how the colours are quite monocrome and the only hint of colour is the sign 'motel' which is in bright red writing which suggests danger or blood. Overall i liked this sequence and has halped me to get some ideas for my own opening sequence.

Planning- Logline

A game of darts with a twist! Murderer/stalker plays darts and kills which ever victim his dart lands on!

Research- Media Workshop

On Friday, we had our re-scheduled media workshop day. The day was very enjoyable aswell as being usefull. By the end of the day me and my group had completed our continuity exercise. The sequence we had to film was a person walking up to a room, opening a door, walking through a door and sitting with someone at the other side. The two people then had to have a conversation and maybe exchange something. Before we started the excercise we made sure we had completed our planning. Me and my team thought about the shots that we wanted to include and created a storyboard of these shots. We included things like camera shot, sound and the shot duration. We included a variety of shots as we thought it would make the sequence more interesting. When filming our sequence we had to film each shot for longer than we atually needed it. This was so we could choose the piece of the clip that we wanted and had room either side of the clip to cut. After we filmed all of our shots we went onto the apple macs and started to edit our work using a program called imovie. We put all of the pieces together so as it made sense. For example we put our establishing shot first followed by our medium shot and our close up. Finally we added some dissolve effects, credits and music to complete our sequence.

Cerys xoxo