Health and Safety information relating to shooting

Office

A. Actors can receive paper cuts when handling paper props. To prevent this, actors are to handle paper props with care.

B. Actors can injure self on surrounding furniture and surrounding props by tripping. To prevent this, actors are to have no untied shoelaces or wear any clothing that may cause a trip. No trip hazards are to be present on the floor while walking.

Note-Creating scene

A. Actors can receive paper cuts when handling paper props. To prevent this, actors are to handle paper props with care.

B. Actors can injure self with scissors. To prevent this, handle scissors with care and do not leave scissors in an open position.

House scene

A. Actors can receive paper cuts when handling paper props. To prevent this, actors are to handle paper props with care.

B. Actors can injure self on surrounding furniture and other props by tripping. To prevent this, actors are to have no untied shoelaces or wear any clothing that may cause a trip. No trip hazards are to be present on the floor while walking.

Underpass scene

B. Actors can injure self on surrounding furniture and other props by tripping. To prevent this, actors are to have no untied shoelaces or wear any clothing that may cause a trip. No trip hazards are to be present on the floor while walking.

Locations chosen for filming

Underpass to George Abbot Secondary School
This underpass is to be used as a scene in our opening sequence due to the secluded nature of this location.





Science Classroom

A science classroom will be used as a dark room due to the equipment that is avaliable in the science classrooms that is needed to give the appearence of a dark room (large trays, etc.)



Drama studio

The drama studio will be used for the interrogation room as the room has stagelights and light can be easily blocked out, making it perfect for an interrogation room.




Study room

The study room is to be used for the stalker's board of his victim because it has a large whiteboard that pictures and similar items can be pinned up on.




Charlie's house

Charlie's house is to be used as the residence of the girl's boyfriend due to it being close to the school, where most of our filming will take place.

Filming schedule

The sounds we will use are footsteps and a police siren.

Planning - Group Photos

Planning consisted of us discussing locations where each scene would take place in and and what type of shots we would use. It also consisted on us considering the whole plot of the story and what would happen for the rest of the movie, not just the opening scene.
We finalised the plot line and made sure everyone knew what the final idea was, we also made sure that we had noted down what movements there would be involved while recording, for example panning from left to right or zooming in or out.

Audience expectation interviews

We collected feedback from our target audience on what they thought about the plot of our film to gather if it would be suitable for this audience. From what we learnt, the synaposis of our film was understandably good and there are no alterations that should be made to the plot of our film.
From this planning that I have conducted, I conclude that the plot of our opening sequence needs to appeal to our target audience.

Mood board of film and genre

This mood board was created to help us collect ideas on our opening sequence, by incorporating various imagery that is associated with the crime-thriller genre.





Props list

planning the storyboard

Harry Potter World

Preliminary evaluation task

Scripting

Interview room

Bateman: Hello, I am D.I. Bateman and it is good to finally see u again. My team and I have been working on your case for the past few days, as a result of this I would like to ask you a few questions on the letters you have been receiving.

Bateman: I know this may be difficult for you, but is there anyone that would want to hurt you, in any way?

Girl: I… I… I don’t… I don’t know

Bateman: is there anything in the past to have made someone annoyed at you?

Chosen costumes

We chose this costume and makeup for because it is the type of fashion that a teenage girl would wear, typically; wanting to be fashionable and fit in with the crowd.














We chose this suit for our detective because it suggests that the detective is formal, and imposes a stereotype, as it is stereotypical that a detective would wear a grey suit. The suit also suggests that the detective is quite high in the socio-economic scale and has a high status.

opening scenes

This opening scene used match on action, shot/reverse shot but did not follow the 180 degree rule. The shot reverse shot was used when the 2 kidnapped boys were looking at each other and trying to communicate. Match on action was used when the boys picked up the pen and then attacked the kidnapper.
The editing methods used were, overlaying, adding sound effects,
The shot transitions used were jump cuts, straight cuts, shot/reverse shot.




This opening scene used match on action but did not use shot/reverse shot, and 180 degree rule, as there was only one character in focus.
The editing methods used included, black and white colouring, parallel editing, and added news reports.
The shot transitions used were jump cuts, match on action and straight cuts.

This opening scene used the 180 degree rule, shot/reverse shot and match on action.
The editing methods used included, adding new reports, switching to titles during the action, adding Lions gate to the start, and speeding up motion.
The shot transitions include, match on action, shot/reverse shot, straight shot.


The point of this task is to look at previous examples to see what shots are used and what editing methods are also used. From looking at these opening scenes we going to add background noises to make the scenes more effective such as office noises and a police radio so that the audience know what the location would be. Another effective editing method was a crossfade which we will also use in our opening scene.

 This task was designed to help us further understand what a good Opening Sequence is. Also to give us ideas we can incorporate into our own opening sequences and to give us ideas we wouldn't have thought of ourselves. This task was specifically meant to inspire us.

What we learnt from this task is that its best to keep things simple. Minimal talking etc. Its better to have a very immersive and simple opening sequence  than a complicated one that constantly breaks immersion with inadequate filming and unnecessary dialogue.

We will make sure our OS is immersive and kept simple. If there is dialogue, we will make sure to incorporate in an interesting way, sound overlays for example.

Creative locations



The underpass on the path next to George abbot can be a location for the filming of our opening sequence because of the secluded and seemingly, isolated scene. This would also be a good scene because as it can seem spooky during at night-time, and imposes a feeling of feeling isolated and rundown, due to the graffiti and poor state of the tunnel under the train line and surrounding walls.








Another location in which filming can take place is on Guildford county's Urnfield fields. these can be good for a location for filming our opening sequence as it can seem spooky at night.

The merrow downs s another good location for our opening sequence because of the large empty space, and therefore this would be a perfect for a pursuit scene.

opening sequences focus: editing

Match-on-action was used during film to show actions carrying on into the next scene. The main editing techniques used included match-on-action, the use of black and white colour, jump cut, slow motion and layering. the shot transitions include . This would be relevant to our opening sequence as it has given us an outline of what sorts of cuts to include, also due to the fact that the cuts give a certain effect.



The key continuity rules used include match-on-action.  The main editing techniques that were used in this opening sequence were production effects (blood, gunfire, etc.), match-on-action, jump cuts and fading in/fading out. These effects are relevant to our opening sequence as this clip has shown that post-production effects can work well in a film, if applied properly.

In our opening sequence, we will use match-on-action, jump cuts, various time-lapse cuts.

Opening Sequence timeline notes

These notes show a first draft of our timeline, with each different coloured post-it note showing a different part of the opening sequence:
-Pink: A summary of what the scene will show the audience
-Yellow: Any scenes, props, other mise-en-scene that the audience will see
-Green: Any overlaying titles/captions

Vlog Feedback

 
Q. What are the props?
A. A file that contains the details of the kidnapping case- pictures, documents, etc. we will also use a crowbar as one of the kidnapper's props.
Q. What is the sub-genre?
A. Crime-thriller
Q. What is it called?
A. We have not decided on a name for our film yet.
Q. What time of day will be filming?
A. We will be filming mainly in the afternoon and in the evening.
Q. What effect do you want to have on the audience?
A. We want the audience to feel that they want to know more from the film, as we will be using the enigma code thriller film narrative.
Q. what do the costumes look like visually?
A. Anthony will be wearing a suit, while being the detective, and a hoodie and Jeans while acting as the kidnapper.
Q. What's the sub genre?
A. Our film is a Crime-Thriller.
Q. What will the music sound like?
A. The music is to be changed to some other music as we have come to the conclusion that it is not appropriate for our film. Our film will use film by the same artist, Kevin McLeod.


Q. How is it going to work/whats going to happen?
A. The girl will be kidnapped when she sees the kidnapper leaving a burgled house. The girl is, in the present, explaining to a detective in a police station how she escaped the kidnapper, little does she know that her kidnapper is actually the police detective interviewing her.
Q. How is the kidnapper interviewing beth?
A. The kidnapper has a day job as a police detective.
Q. What prop?
A. Case file for the kidnapping case, a crowbar, chairs and table, as well as rope for when the kidnapper is holding the victim.