Pre Production Planning

COSTUMING

STAC1E -
50's housewife dress - red-black?
pearls - necklace, braclett, earring
50's style housewife shoes

Husband -

Sweatpants

Dirty large t - shirt

Wool socks

TV presenter -

70's style suit - flared pants- pink/purple?

Interviewed consumer -

A sloppy, large suit

MAKEUP

STAC1E -

Curled blonde hair

red lips and blusher

lots of hairspray

Husband -

Unshaven

Scruffy

no makeup

TV presenter -

Oily/shiny face

chessey grin

MISE EN SCENE

TV lounge-

Not expensive looking, cheap furniture

coffee table

couch 

TV screen

Blue and black lighting- creating cold atmosphere

Kitchen-

Chopping board

Sharp knife

blue lighting

scattered carrots

clean white kitchen

TV advert-

Green screen!

Storyboarding

Storyboarding is a graphic organizer which features illustrations that are drawn of the still images you want in each shot, and notes about each shot. they are drawn in chronological order of the film.
So that when you come to filming your movie you have a clear idea of what shots to use, instead of just making it up on the day. It also allows an outsider to clearly understand the story.

Thriller opening sequence journal

At first we wanted to do the assasination of Barrack Obama for our Thriller opening sequence. We had brainstormed a great title for the movie - Renegade. Which was Obama's code name. We were planning to use a fellowe student Glen to play Obama and planned to shoot in the sudio recreating a press conference. But after talking to Luke and Matt we relized that this would be very hard to shoot and make it look realistic. So we eventually ditched the idea.
So we had to go back to the drawing baord. Eventually we came up with an idea of a story about a robotic wife who turns evil on her husband. We would start out with an advert for the robot with James playing a cheesey american presenter saying how fabulous she is. Then we zoom out to a man on a couch watching the advert and in the kitchen his very won robot wife is making dinner. Then there's a close up of her eyes and they turn red to show she's evil and then she picks up a knife and starts walking towards her husband. We thought the title should be "Stac1e". We've written the scrpit and are planning to shoot the advert behind a green screen in the studio and then in the hurtwood house kitchen.
Now we just have to find someone to play the robot and the husband.

Mood Board

A Mood Board is a collage of images that provide inspiration to the viewer. They help to spark ideas and thoughts.

Mood board

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Analysis of an Opening Sequence

Butterfly effect analysis

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What is a Thriller/Horror?

Thriller/Horror is a genre that follow certain codes and conventions in order create a frightened/scared reaction from an audience. Suspence, tension, and excitement are the main elements in Thrillers. A genuine, standalone thriller is a film that provide thrills and keeps the audience cliff-hanging at the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the characters are placed in a menacing situation, a mystery, or a trap from which escaping seems impossible. Life is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspectingly or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. The victim of the danger is usually made to look vulnerable so the audience therefore sympathise.
There are many sub genres to Thrillers such as mystery thriller, crime thriller and psychological thriller.

The Thriller convetions used are:

• Twists to the end of a film
• Mystery elements (enigma codes)
• Tension/suspense
• Eerines/creepiness
• Darkness/ Flawed Heroes / Violence
• Complex Characters (in depth)
• Moral Ambiguity.

Preliminary Task post-production

First we had to acccess our footage in the Final Cut Server.
Then we tried to use Continuity editing.


Continuity Editing
Continuity editing is the most commonly used stlye of editing in the media world. This is editing that moves from each shot smoothly and makes sense to the audience. So if someone is moving then continuity editing would make that person move smoothly from two different shots. There is temporal continuity and spatial continuity each type involves different techniques that either promote or work against a sense of continuity.


Logging our shots
First we set up a log bin by clicking on File, New File and name is Log Bin. We then dragged our shots we wanted to use from the Rushes to the Log Bin. Then we watched all our shots and talked in our group about what shots to keep and reject. There were quite a lot of shots that we had to reject as our actors had mucked up their lines or something went wrong.


Oganising Shots
This caused our group great stress as we couldn't really decide what to use. We dicided to give priority to our actress Libby as she is the victim in the film and we want the audience to be on her side. To capture the anxiety and nervousness of the film we started by showing close ups of hands shaking, feet tapping and eyes darting. We used shots looking down on Libby to make appear as the victim and shots looking up at Ellie to make her appear menicing and scary. Then a wide shot to establish the scene.


Shot Order
We put into order the victims's story. So the majority of the shots were on the victim , while the minority were on the attacker. We set the shots in order to display the story to make sence, using shots that made libby look like the victim and Ellie as the "bad guy".


Editing in Final Cut
From the chosen scenes we thought that could have been of best use, we edited them to cut out the unwanted things, which might have been that an action we directed the actors to do was prolonged in order to choose the best bits and cut them our for later use. We also had to cut out the call for "Standby" and "action" which was a dilema at first but in the end, was finally dealt with.