Risk Assessment

In our Risk Assessment we will be looking for objects, people, our even dog walkers that will be in the way of our video. In Thorndon Country park we will have to be aware of the dog walkers that are strolling about during filming time, this shouldn't be too much of a problem as we hope to be filming at dusk, so it adds more effect tho the thriller. In Warley we will have to be careful about Sticks and things that are laying on the floor so we don't fall over, and hurt ourselves. Things that we are going to have to look at for is up rooted trees and trees that have been blown over in that storm we had a couple of weeks back. When we are filming at Tom's we will have to make sure that the rooms we shot in are clear of any dangerous objects, and that the way that we walk is clear. Again when we are filming at Tom's we will need to make sure that the bathroom floor is not wet so we do not slip over when filming. When we are shooting our video we will double check the areas are not dangerous, and will move all objects that can do damage to the individuals in the group. When we are looking for risks in the wooded areas we are using we will be looking for things like sharp stones, cheasnut shells, and sticks that are sticking out the ground.

Pictures we took on scouting for our location

This is a photo we took when we was scouting for locations in Warley woods. We have used a person in the photo so we can see what it looks like to peoples eyes and views. We also had the person in it as this was an idea we had at first for the use of our poster.

The Swarm Sound Effects

We listened to different sound effects to create a sense of fear in our thriller opening. We knew we liked the sound effects used on the roller coaster 'The Swarm The Ride' so for inspiration we searched for different effects and found this clip which is filled with a vast majority of deep suspense sound effects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfwJ2mqgh-g
 

Our initial ideas and Storyboard

Codes and Conventions

Character influences

Our character influence for the stalker has come from Slender. The slender theme is similar to ours with the girl noticing notes on trees, and with slender appearing behind them. Our character influence was the girl from gone, as she is abducted by a complete stranger, this inspired us and with the scenery we have chosen, it relates to the film gone. Our thriller is also about about a girl being stalked, as shes is being stalked it could lead to an obduction, we were inspired by the film gone to incorporate this.

Areas being considerd for our thriller

For one of the scenery option we will be shooting in a woods, two in Brentwood or one in Doddinghurst. We chose these locations as we feel as though they add to codes and conventions of a thriller. When watching past students thrillers they mostly used locations such as; abandoned houses/buildings , however by choosing a forest it creates isolation of there being no escape for our protagonist and is also different to what people have used before. We also felt that using different parts of the forests would work well for different scenes of our opening so, as group we made sure that we discussed what would and wouldn't work for what we wanted to do.

Analysis of Snatch opening sequence

Analysis of Snatch.
Snatch is a Gangster thriller.

In the opening sequence of snatch its starts off with two characters, with it starting with these two it shows that they are most likely to be the people in most of the film, these characters are called 'Turkish' and 'Tommy', Turkish and Tommy are seated and Turkish is talking about what he does and that he doesn't know a thing about diamonds this lets the audience have a guess at to what the film is about. After Turkish and Tommy have been introduced, it moves on to a different place called 'Antwerp' this is labelled in the scene as well. With the opening sequence changing place shows that one of the places are to do with the rest of the film. The scene is in a diamond bank, this relates to what Turkish was saying before.

When the other characters enter the bank and then rob it for the diamonds and one mighty diamond stone it then goes on to introduce the rest of the people that are going to be in the film. When its showing each different character, shows scenery that you can represent to that character and get an understanding to where and what the character does. For example Franky four fingers, is in a game of poker this shows that he is a gambler and his name tells you that his lost a finger, this might mean he lost his finger in a gambling debt. Another example would be Mickey from the short shot that you get to see from his lifestyle it looks as if his in a caravan, the audience would see the way he looks and represent him with a gypsy.

 

Influence to our film

 

Beyonces new surprise album to the world included a video called haunted, this gave our group effective editing ideas that we could in cooperate in our film. The eye used in Beyonces video is terrifying to the audience as it hits the screen with a sound sting, we would like to use an eye image like this in our film and use the same camera edits and scream sound stings. We think this would be affective because of our genre choice of a thriller/ horror, the sound stings and fuzzy edits will scare our target audience because it is the opening of our film, we need to establish a horror sense of genre straight away so the audience know what kind of film they will be watching. The sounds in our opening of the film will also be very similar to Beyonces video as its a very eerie bleak soundtrack we would choose, the sound stings will include sharp quick screams and panorama establishing shots with a ghostly sound affect to make our audience feel the isolation of the confused and scared feeling the little girl feels in the forest.  

 

Questionaire

Questionnaire

1.     How old are you?

15-17     18-20     21+

2.     Are you male or Female?

Male             Female

3.     What 5 words do you first think of when you think of a thriller?

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4.     What films do you relate as a thriller?

5.     What type of thriller would you prefer to watch?

Horror                gangster                gothic              comedy

 

6.     What kind of music would you expect to be in a thriller?

7.     What setting would you expect to be in a thriller?

 

 

8.      Who do you expect a victim to be in the thriller?

 

 

9.      Who woud you expect to be the typical hero in a thriller?

 

 

10.    What kind of villan would you associate with a thriller?

11.  What age would you expect a thriller to be?

       U        12A        12        15        18


12.  What gender would you expect the viticm to be?

Men   Women    Boys    Girls

13. How old would you expect the victim to be?
Write down the age you think
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BBFC Rating for our opening sequence and thriller

The BBFC is how we have decided what rating our thriller will be about. From these screen shots we have decided that our opening sequence will make our thriller a 15. We have decided it will be a 15 as there will be a strong threat and a menace and a bit of gore. The opening sequence to the thriller would be rated as a 12A because there is no strong language, no sexual scenes and shown violence. As there is  physical and psychological threat is permitted in our opening sequence to the thriller is 12 or 12A, as long as disturbing sequences are not too frequent or sustained.

We have discussed as a group that we are going to rate the opening title sequence a 12A but how ever the rest of the film would push the rating up to a 15, this is because there will be signs of strong violence and strong language. 

Cape fear analysis

Cape fear

Key things the audience sees watching the first 2/3 minutes of the film are expressed through the iconography such as the extreme close up of  eyes in the water, them the water turns to a bloody red colour suggesting death and fear. Facial feature close up such as mouths are faded in and out of people laughing giving a creepy impact upon the scene. At  first the viewer will see a stick like object in the water which will soon reveal to be an eagle implying a sense of freedom upon America or other connotations of the bird stalking it's prey as a predictor to kill weak, when this image is shown Robert Dinero's name is revealed suggesting he is like the eagle character. Music is used to build the Renton with the fast tempo soundtrack at the start which opens to the water scene with a sound sting. Martin Scorsese's name is displayed when the drop of gory blood in shown explaining death or murder to his character. Many zooms and close ups are used for x ray images over the water scene and to unfold a silhouette of a mans torso then his hand! The dark deep water giving a significance to the film with all the images we can see being underneath the water suggests such a sinister and eerie tone to the film which also gives the audience a complete contrast in mood through the colours used such a binary opposite of white and red.  The man staring at the eagle gives us an enigma, if we look into depth the positioning of the names are displayed as though Robert is the villain staring at the female character Jessica.


     

 

Preliminary Exercise

Preliminary exercise.

This was a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and the exchanging a few lines of dialogue. Our task demonstrated match on action, shot reverse shot, and 180 degree rule. We filmed separate videos of the prelim we edited the clips with the app 'VidEditorFree'. We done this Easily as we shot the clips on an iPhone. Using this technology helped us to make a successful prelim. 

Our Prelimary Exercise

Our Prelimary Exercise was to get some different shots of someone walking into a class room and talking to another person this took us about 15 minutes to film and edit it together which isn't that long.

 

 

year 13 talk

To make sure we had a successful start to our thriller we needed to be accurate with the detail of the filming.
Here are some of the factors we had to consider, advised by year 13s who have completed the opening of a thriller before.
1. Making sure our camera or iPhone is fully charged with enough memory to hold the footage we need.
2. Chose the location carefully and take pictures and videos of the setting we would use.
3.Triple check:
   Props
   Costumes
4. Look out for any reflections in mirrors, if shooting with a mirror.
5. Check the weather conditions if you are filming on two different days or night and day.
6. The film must be completed in February and then the blog and then evaluation ASAP.
7. Get more footage than you really need, eg:5-6 minutes.
8. Take shots from different angles.
9. Don't leave things till the last minute eg: blog.
10. Don't go for the obvious with a thriller have a twist.
11. Be prepared to change ideas and have a plan B.
12. Ask permission for any buildings or land you do not own.
13. Take videos and pictures of EVERYTHING.
14. Use a tripod to film for steadiness.
15. Be media rich videos.photos social networking.
16. Don't have any speech its unneeded.
17. Detailed storyboard at the end.
18. Think of location.
19. Variety of shots.
20. Use time effectively make sure everyone works.
21. Test shots first.
22. Look out for photo bombers!
23. Choose lighting well not too dark.
24. Someone in charge of spelling/ check grammar.
25. Use realistic props.
26. Don't shoot until whole group is prepared with the ideas and plan you have.
27. Use the light on the camera if you use one.

We took all these points into consideration throughout our filming and because of the year 13 advise we were more likely not to miss obvious mistakes.