Schedule

Ash - Filming

Josh - Acting

Kieran - Acting

Filming time: Media lessons

Date	What shots need to be filmed
3rd December	Camera facing above parked car bonnet facing the road - A different camera is on the pavement looking at the road - Another camera is looking down the middle of the road - Cuts to a footstep crashing in slow motion down(Camera is ground level) - At the same time of the footstep a heavy electric sound - The screen goes black - The production company - Goes back to another stomp of the footstep with electric bass drop sound - Screen goes black - Title fades in - Goes back to another slow motion stomp of the footstep with electric bass drop sound - Screen fades black - Producers - Goes back to another slow motion stomp of the footstep with electric bass drop sound - Screen fades black - Editors fade in - Goes back to another slow motion stomp of the footstep with electric bass drop sound - Screen fades black - Actors fade in - Alleyway fades in - See person in black walking down it
4th December-	Fades to shot facing the graveyard - Cuts to the victim walking a long a path to the graveyard  - Keep tracking on the letter he's carrying - Stands in front of tree - Shot goes to one half of the screen, a line comes up and the murderer appears in the other half of the screen, the victims half is shot in colour and the murderers half is in black and white, the lightbulb next to his face sharpening his knife. - Both shots are happening at the same time - Victim is still standing  - Murderer exits  - Shot enlarges to the victim fullscreen - Close up shot of victim diagonal view - A noise in the background - The camera is behind the victim getting closer - The camera is facing the victim, a sound is heard very close behind him - Turns around
6th December	Editing footage
10th December	Close up view of victims face in the light in the graveyard( jumpy high pitched music)  - Murderer goes to stab victim, victim grabs arm, a lot of struggling and fighting is going on as the knife is dropped, very jumpy high pitched music - Shot turns to side view so that we can see both the victim and murderer from the side - Murderer pushes the victim away, pulls out pistol and shoots the victim twice - The shot cuts to a ground shot looking up at victim( murderer is viewable behind him) and the victim falls to his knees and lays on the floor dead - Someone shouts at the murderer, murderer runs - Shot cuts to front view of the murderer running away, many people can be seen behind him chasing him - Shot changes to two people running out of church doors running towards the church gate -Shot cuts to outside of  - Shot cuts to front view of hooded people

Equipment:

• Camera
• Tripod
• Fake Knife
• Letter

Recce Shots

Film idea

Camera facing above parked car bonnet facing the road
- A different camera is on the pavement looking at the road
- Another camera is looking down the middle of the road
- Cuts to a footstep crashing in slow motion down(Camera is ground level)
- At the same time of the footstep a heavy electric sound
- The screen goes black
- The production company
- Goes back to another stomp of the footstep with electric bass drop sound
- Screen goes black
- Title fades in
- Goes back to another slow motion stomp of the footstep with electric bass drop sound
- Screen fades black
- Producers
- Goes back to another slow motion stomp of the footstep with electric bass drop sound
- Screen fades black
- Editors fade in
- Goes back to another slow motion stomp of the footstep with electric bass drop sound
- Screen fades black
- Actors fade in
- Alleyway fades in
- See person in black walking down it
- Fades to shot facing the graveyard
- Cuts to the victim walking a long a path to the graveyard 
- Stands in the light looking about
- Shot goes to one half of the screen, a line comes up and the murderer appears in the other half of the screen, the victims half is shot in colour and the murderers half is in black and white, the lightbulb next to his face sharpening his knife 
- Both shots are happening at the same time
- Victim is still in the same spot
- shot of murderes face
- Shot enlarges to the victim fullscreen
- Close up shot of victim diagonal view
- Murderer goes to stab victim, victim grabs arm, a lot of struggling and fighting is going on as the knife is dropped, very jumpy high pitched music
- a very fast shot of a knife stabbing appears giving a psychological effect
- Murderer pulls body away and takes the letter
- Shot cuts to view of the murderer running away, a person shortly can be seen behind him chasing him
- Shot changes to the murderer going behind a wall then two black pearing from the church door all in black hooded people come out of that spot and run to the gate
- Shot cuts to in front of the gate where the black hooded people run out of 
- The other person follows behind and turns left
- The person chases the hooded person
- The hooded person is revealed
- Shot changes to the other black hooded person out of breath opening letter

INTERSPLICE

Thriller definition

Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension and excitement as its main elements.Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods, giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation,uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and/or terror. Films of this genre tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced.

Production comany logo

In order to make the thriller film we need a production company logo so we made one using photoshop combining images collected from the internet and then using text from the program.

Answers to questionnaire

Name: Luke williams powell

question 1.  yep

question 2. i am legend

question 3. suspense

question 4. supernatural, horror

question 5. with someone

question 6.  action and suspense with guns and fight scenes

Name:

question 1. Yes

question 2. Se7en

question 3. Phycologicalnessess

question 4. Phycological thriller

question 5. Alone O.o

question 6. Intense action

Name: Ferus McGlynn

question 1. Yes

question 2. The Bourne Supremacy

question 3. Action and tension and shooting

question 4. Action Thrillers

question 5. Alone( like everything)

question 6. Music and sound effects to add enigma

Name:

question 1.

question 2.

question 3.

question 4.

question 5.

question 6.

Thriller questionnaire

We had to devise a questionnaire to ask people so that we can get general ideas on what people want in a thriller film

1. Do you watch thrillers?

                                                                                                                                                                  
          

2. What's your favourite thriller?

                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

3. What things do you look for when you're watching a thriller?

                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

4. What sub-genre do you prefer most when watching a thriller?

                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

5. Would you rather watch thriller movies alone or with someone?

                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

6. What makes a good thriller movie?

                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Main character representation

Main character representation

• Accents
• Proxemics
• Camera work/Visual heirachy
• Mise En Scene - Performance/Costume/Make-up/Location/Set design/Lighting
• Sound - Vocabulary/Volume/Acoustics
• Music that relates to the character

Making the character

Accent - A deep strong northern accent will suggest the origin of the person who is the main character. This will make people recognise the person as important because of the big accent used a lot.

Proxemics - Depending on the situation in the movie the character would perhaps be quite close to many people as they are the main character meaning they would often speak to many people up close. The camera can also be far away from the person, or distance two people so we can see the main character clearly.

Camera work/Visual heirachy - The main character would be a powerful one in the movie meaning there will be quite a lot of low angled shots giving off the visulal heirachy of power. If something happens to the main character or they are facing a difficult task then there would be a high angled shot making the character seem less powerful and less important. There will be lots of close up shots because the main character will need a lot of attention in the film. When the main character is moving it would usually be important so there would be a camera pan in the direction that they are walking.

Above is an example of a high angle shot

Miae en scene - The main character would be dressed in formal clothes that represent what they are doing because that is based on the movie which is very important for the mise en scene. The main character would be best in a suit as the thriller is very action based and formal. In a thriller there would often be a lot of blood meaning that make-up of blood would need to be done to the main character a lot. Cuts and bruises would have to be used in make-up too. The lighting would be focused on what the main character is doing too. The hair colour would be a dark brown or black because thrillers are dark making the audience remember the character for their looks so when the main character turns up in a scene the audience can instantly identify them as the main character. The main character will be carrying a pistol for protection in which he uses in the opening scene. In terms of performance the main character will be light on his feet meaning he will be doing a lot of running, climbing and fighting.

Above is an example of a dark suit

Sound/vocabulary/Acoustics - Sound will be very loud if something important is going on such as a death or something that relates to the main character. This can be noises that make people on edge like distorted high pitched sounds to make people uncomfortable but know what's going on. The main character s diologue will be very distinctive and will make people recognise them through their voice. The main characters voice can always be heard very well over the rest so they would be placed perhaps in a room that will make their voice carry out and bounce for everyone to hear. The sound would be diegetic 

Music that helps identify the character-  The music will be very loud if something important is going on otherwise a section of sound that occurs every time the main character comes in will help the audience identify that person as the main character. This will also help people identify a particular scene that a character is in. Particular music that defines the main character will make the audience recognise them e.g. if sad music comes on and something has happened and there is a shot of a character we will know that its in relation to the main character again making us identify that person as the main character.

Analyzing The Bourne Identity (storyboarding)

Had to analyze a film with drawing a storyboard describing what happened in the scene at 00:00 - 02:00.

The Bourne Identity summary

The Bourne Identity was made in 2002 and was directed by a man named Doug Liman. It is a thriller, action and mystery film. The main plot is when a man, by the name of Jason Bourne is picked up at sea on a fishing boat, he is suffering from amnesia and is racing to elude some assassins. 

Jason Bourne is played by Matt Damon

The budget for this film was an estimate of around $60 000 000

In total this film made $213 034 224

Inception opening analysis

At first we see the company logos who aided the people making this film. In the background we can hear a big orchestral sound. The sound is a mixture of big brass instruments which could possibly represent something important but then it cuts out.

We then see a shot of the sea in slow motion, the waves crashing slowly against each other again giving the image of power. As soon as the orchestral music cuts out we only hear that big crashing of waves.

The scene then cuts to a man washed up in the sea, the sound of waves have died down now but you can still hear it in the background but the sound of trickling water can be heard. Upon seeing this man washed up on the beach we begin to have an enigma being created for us. Who is this man? Why is he here? What happened to him?

The scene then goes to the image of two little children both male and female. Again an enigma is created; who are these children? Why are they all alone? We hear their laughs echo as if we are in some sort of dream. We hear the music become really slow and sad and we begin to realise, as the man looks up, that they are related to him; they must be his children. 

We then come to a scene with the over the shoulder shot; the person whose shoulder we are looking over, is pointing a gun at the man who is washed up on the beach.

Marnie analysis

As the film begins the beginning titles and company logos are shown through the use of visual effect, in this case the use of turning pages of a book gives the viewer th

e hint that this story is based on a novel.

Some pragmatic music calms down when the title of the film is shown then the music picks up and calms again, this is continued for a while to build tension.  Then all of a sudden, all the music stops and the film picture begins. From this point onward there is only diegetic sound coming from the actions seen on screen.

The diegetic sound is begun with the sound of high heels from a woman walking. This sound also gives us the idea that this woman is all on her own seeing as though there are no other noises to be heard from all around. however we do not see the woman's face which creates an enigma to who she is.

We now see everything in the scene which gives us the image of the full mis en scene.

The use of the hand bag prop tells us that it is a significant object in the scene. This significance is emphasised from the visible bright yellow colour of  the bag, and the tight grasp the woman has over the bag she's carrying.

We know that the character visible to the audience is a woman from the clothing e.g. the hat, coat and also judging by the sound her high heels.

The establishing shot shows us that this character is in a train station in the city. we know that she is in the city because of the gas shutter clearly visible in the background that would be found commonly in large community's, in this case the city. Also this shot has converging lines to aid with drawing the viewers eye to the woman slowly walking away from the camera. furthermore, we could also determine the weather and maybe even the season of which this scene is set, we can do this by looking at her clothing, she is wearing a tweed coat and scarf which are tell-tale signs that the weather is cold, meaning it could be Autumn/Winter time. The camera movement is also a key element to drawing attention to the woman and the bag e.g. using tracking to follow the woman/bag tightly and then slowly stopping to allow her to get further ahead and to show some of her surroundings for and establishing sh

• The woman looks to be going somewhere at this point as she stops and puts down a suit case and is waiting at the train.
• The music completely stop's in this scene, cuts from first scene straight to a close up of a man saying: 'Robbed'. He  points at the safe with a direct eye line match to show where the money was stolen from. He then informs the other characters how much money was stolen. At this point we begin to solve the enigma of what was in the yellow bag; the stolen money.
  

Shortly afterwards the same man tells us who the person was that stole the bag, Marian Holland While. He repeats the name of the woman three times. By doing this he is addressing the audience making sure they know who it was who stole the money and to apply a name to the female character from the first scene even though we only saw her from behind. Also his description of the woman who stole the money suggests that him and her had some form of relationship or that he has or had some form of interest in her.

After this, a tall man enters the scene. We can tell that he is of more significance than the other characters because he takes up most of the screen as well as him being very tall which demonstrates power.

 During these conversations, there has been use of a shot reverse shot format which is used a lot in converstaions that are significant to the film. 

Then it cuts to a shot where the woman who appears to have stolen the money as she walks from the behind the camera down a hall way which looks like its in a hotel because there is a bell boy which suggest he works for the hotel, the bellboy is carrying to big parcels for this dark haired woman, as they walk away from the camera. There are also loads of doors which suggest they are hotel rooms. Then Alfred Hitchcock appears in the shot because he appears in all his films.

Shortly afterwards there is a scene where a woman ius washing out hair dye which suggests that the person who robbed the money is ttrying to change her identity as we also see close up shots of a different I.D . We see her face at the end of the scene. She drops a key which gives us the thought that it is the safe key from which the money was stolen from.