Thursday, 3 November 2011

Story Board



Other products similar to ours.

  • Aileen Wuornos in Monster  a film about an ex prostitute who killed six men, this film was listed number eight in the top 10 female protagonists on a website called "The Script Lab" (http://thescriptlab.com/features/the-lists/1239-top-10-female-protagonists-in-film?q=%2Ffeatures%2Fthe-lists%2F1239-top-10-female-protagonists-in-film&start=3)


  • Another film that involves a female protagonist is Fatal Attraction starring Alex Forrest. A film about how a married man's one night stand comes back and haunts him when the lover starts to stalk him and his family.  

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Questionnaire, in which we asked 15 different people

Questionnaire:
1. What gender are you?
Male [ ]
Female [ ]

2. What age group are you in?
0-13 [ ]
14-18 [ ]
19-25 [ ]
26-30 [ ]
31+ [ ]

3. How often do you watch a thriller film?
Once a week [ ]
Once a fortnight [ ]
Once a month [ ]
Once a year [ ]

Other ___________________________________

4. What is your favorite Thriller film?

_________________________________________

4b. Why?

__________________________________________

5. What attracts you to a film?
Actors [ ]
Director [ ]
Trailers [ ]
Adverts [ ]
Reviews [ ]

Other _____________________________________

6. What do you like most in a thriller film?
Action [ ]
Graphics [ ]
Suspense [ ]
Jumpy [ ]
Obvious [ ]
Cliff hanger [ ]

Other _____________________________________

7. Do you believe music is important in an opening sequence?
Yes [ ]
No [ ]

8. If you enjoyed a film would you watch the sequel?
Yes [ ]
No [ ]

9. Do you believe the title in the opening sequence is important?
Yes [ ]
No [ ]



(questionnaire being answered)

Group Titles

Hannah Parker - Director, Location & Props, Editing, Scriptor, Actor.
Stevie Anthony - Co-Director, Scriptor, Narrative, Editing, Actor
Beca Smith - Story boarder, Camera Operator, Editor
Jacob May - Planner, Camera Operator, Actor.

Script












Thriller Opening Sequence Script.
DESIRE
Hannah Parker, Stevie Anthony, Beca Smith, Jake May.















SCENE 1:
Black fades to a door, (CU). Hannah walks in slowly and slams door(MS) (sound is diegetic)
FASHBACK - Stevie & Jake walking/sitting being watched by Hannah. (Non-diegetic sound, creepy music)
CUT BACK TO KITCHEN
SCENE 2:
Hannah walks in, (only sound heard is Hannah’s heals, diegetic, MS) walks down kitchen to a table, PAN table, lingering on each object;
o   Flowers
o   Tea lights
o   Big red candle
o   Knife
o   Phone
o   Matches
o   Memory box, (includes):
o   Birthday card
o   T-shirt
o   Pressed flower
o   Empty aftershave bottle
o   Gig Tickets
o   Train Tickets
o   Pictures of Jake and Hannah
o   Possible comb/brush
SCENE 3:
Hannah picks up matches and lights tea light (Diegetic sound of the matches being lit, CU of tea lights), each 3rd tea light (roughly) lit triggers another flash back of Stevie and Jake. (all flashbacks include non-diegetic sound, music)
SCENE 4:
Pan of room, quick pan of Jake (tided up and gagged) pan past Jake and back with Hannah standing behind.
SCENE 5:
Cut to Stevie in a different room (using LS, MS and CU), puts coffee cup down in front of a picture of Stevie and Jake (shows that Stevie and Jake are the new couple), Stevie rings Jake..
CUT BACK TO KITCHEN
Hannah is looking through memory box, smelling t-shirt, aftershave, etc..
Phone is on table, lights up,(CU) Stevie ringing Jake. OTS Hannah rejects the call, calmly.

SCENE 6:
Hannah teases Jake, plays with his hair strokes a knife across his face, whispers in his ear, etc..
MONTAGE OF FLASHBACKS AND HANNAH LIGHTING A BIG RED CANDLE, WALKING UP TO JAKE.
Flashbacks stop. Hannah stands with the candle between her and Jake; as if she’s going to kiss him she blows the candle out in his face.
THE END.

Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Week 8

This week we have arranged and bought the props for our filming which we will begin on Thursday (3.11.11) we have also created a script and finished the story board, once we've done some filming we can start to edit and see what footage we have to play with, Media is a really enjoyable subject and I can't wait to start filming properly!
UPDATE
Filming will take place in my kitchen, Stevie Jake and I will be acting in the film and Beca will do the filming, we've also chosen to name our film 'Desire' we think this fits with our chosen storyline.

Sunday, 30 October 2011

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