Prop List

BOX	TABLE
Birthday card	Flower
T-shirt	Tea lights
Pressed flower	Table cloth
Empty aftershave bottle	Knife
Pictures	Phone
Comb/hair brush	Big red candle
	Gig tickets
	Train tickets
	Memory box
	Matches
	Pills

Week 7

This week we did all the planning for our Thriller opening (which we are yet to name) we went out a couple of times to film some shots for our flash back scenes and we edited these to see how they would work. After half term we will film the rest of the opening and start editing. We started our story board and have left Beca Smith to finish that. We also have to write a script and work out what times and dates we will do our filming. Over the half term I need to get hold of props.

Planning for Thriller Opening Sequence

Characters:
Jake - Victim
Hannah (me) - Antagonist
Stevie - Princess.
(Characters according to Propp's Theory.)

Narrative idea:
Our victim is tided up by the antagonist (me), we have a cut shot to the princess (Stevie) who is ringing her boyfriend (Jake - victim) and can't get an answer, we have a cut shot back to Jake tided up and on the other side of a room his phone lights up, the antagonist sees the phone and throws it across the room, the antagonist (me) has a table with objects on it(rose petals, knives, photos, laptop with the victims facebook up, tea lights surrounding a bigger candle, etc) the antagonist strikes a match and lights each candle, with each candle the antagonist lights we have a cut edit to Stevie and Jake (flashbacks etc), using the big candle the antagonist walks towards Jake, our last shot is of the antagonist smiling at the candle, blowing it out and then we hear a scream. Through the opening sequence we have credits and music throughout.

Week 6

This week we looked at past thriller opening to inspire us to make our own, we looked at storyboarding and created a mood board on one of the display boards in our school. We got into groups assigned roles and thought of ideas for our Thriller Opening, we first thought of a Post-Apocaliptic world with a couple looking for salvation, after doing some research we realised how big and difficult it would be to produce such a film and portray such a difficult idea to the audience, we set our minds on a different idea after watching some more past thriller openings by past students and we feel we have come up with a better idea more doable film.

Possible Location Shots

Evaluation of Continuity Sequence

This is an evaluation of our continuity sequence that is shown underneath, in our footage we have Danielle Hopkins (who has now dropped media studies as a subject) as the main character, Beca Smith and I also star in the sequence. We would all decide as a group what shots to film, then Stevie Anthony, who was in charge of filming, set up the camera and filmed each needed shot. I really enjoyed the whole experience of deciding what to do in our sequence, the actual filming, editing and even acting in the sequence. The whole point of the Continuity Sequence was a trial to see how a camera works, how to do different shots etc.. We got a real feel for filming and editing so when it comes to our Thriller Opening we know exactly what to do. We found it surprising how much footage we filmed compared to how much footage we actually used, editing at first was quite tricking, but once we got the hang of editing, it was easy. Our sequence includes extreme close ups of Dani's face, phone and door handle, we use shot reverse shot, two people shots, long shots and establishing shots. We use speech and a phones ring tone also. If we redid the Continuity Sequence I think we would make sure we had a lot more shots to play with and we would make sure we didn't break the 180  degree rule. At the beginning of the sequence our edits are a bit to quick, quick edits are good for action sequences but not for our continuity footage, however this is not a major problem. My favourite shots are the close ups of Dani texting and the close up of her opening the door. We have learnt a lot from doing this film and we now have a good understanding and knowledge of what to do when it comes to our Thriller Opening.

Continuity Sequence.

Week 5

This week we finished editing our Continuity Sequence and uploaded it to our blogs, I had some trouble at first uploading the film to my laptop but after working out the kinks we uploaded it to YouTube and then to the blogs. We then evaluated our continuity sequence. We also researched mood boards and looked at Olioboard.com for help. We also started to think of an idea for our Thriller opening.