Updates on Ideas For Our Thriller Opening

As we are coming to the end of our Filming, as a group we sat down and discussed how we all feel about the Thriller Opening so far. We all agreed that its not going exactly to Plan and that we need to re-think some of our ideas. We developed the ideas that we came up with and have decided to change our Thriller Film opening Storyline Slightly;

Rather than the young girl waking up in the Asylum that she has been put it, She is walking on a normal day as an adult where she has Flash Backs of her past childhood which is being in the Asylum and searching two doors (rather than three) to find her meaning of herself. We have changed the beginning because we felt that its boring and very long. The Flash Backs of her past will also make the opening more exciteful and this will allow us to use more of a variety of Camera Shots. The Girl who she sees in the second door that she opening will walk past her in the park and then she will have a Flashback of when she opens the door and sees her in it. We Feel that by editing the Storyline it will stop a lot of the Jump Cuts that we don't want in our opening scene and it will also make it more like a Thriller Film.

Voiceovers for our Thriller Film Opening

 

This is our least perferred one as their isn't much emotion being portrayed in the voice. We would like the audience to feel a sense of sympathy when this voice over is being done.

 

This is the one we are not sure about as we feel like the voice speaks the content to fast therefore we miss the emotion being shown and it also defuses the object of the voice over.

 

 

This is our favourite one as it carries the most emotion being portrayed through the voice than all the others.

Photos of our First Filming

 

We first started Filming in the Corridor on the third floor of the College. This is a Wide Shot of us filming.

 

We then filmed in a room where we shot this Close up of Kavita to show her performing mental actions.

 

We then filmed my reaction to Kavitas mental actions that shows contrast of the two characters. When we started filming in this room, this is when we discovered that the Mise en Scene is incorrect and doesn't fit in with our piece.

First Filming of Bloody Tears

This is our First Filming of our Thriller Opening. We felt that there was a lot of Jump cuts in this filming and we tried to avoid them but it didn't go to plan. We also felt that the Mise en Scene didn't fit in with the whole Aslyum scene as it was quite opposite to a Aslyum. This was the main issue of this first filming as it didn't fit in with our Story line that we want our Thriller Film Opening to go by. The Jump Cuts where also another large issue of this filming as it wasn't smooth enough when we watched it back. It made our filming look quite ammature and unrealistic. When we film in the future the Mise en Scene will be more Aslyum looking and the Jump Cuts will only occur if we want them to.

Analysis of Film Advertisement

Today i picked up a Newspaper and as i read it, i noticed various Film Advertisements. This one particular stood out for me as its very eye grabbing. Once i finished reading the paper i figured that i might as well post a blog about it! :)

The main colour of this advertisement is a deep red. This connotes both Danger and Love. As a viewer i straight away assume that the Genre of this film is a Horror/Romance. As the man in this film is wearing a Red Hoody, i assume that he may be a danger to the girl behind him in the white top. By having the contrast of the two characters in different clothing shows that the girl is innocent whereas the man is dangerous. The Proxemics of the both characters make me believe that the Genre has an element of Romantic in it as they are close and they are of different sexes. The fact that the man is slouching conveys that he may be unaware that he is a danger to the girl with her back straight looking over her shoulder behind the man. The man looks very intriguing as he has a grey complexion which shows that he may be suffering from an illness or have some type of disease or be some type of Supernatural Being. This creates to horror side to the Genre as he looks quite scary and menacing.

Pitch Powerpoint Feedback

The Feedback that we got from our Pitch was very useful.

Mary liked the idea that we want a Voice Over played throughout the opening scene.

 

She suggested the idea that we should have Signs/Posters of Broadmoor Hospital and the NHS around where we are filming to create more Mise en Scene. We like this idea and will be using it for our Thriller Film Opening.

 

 

Mary also suggested that we should have beddings in the rooms we are filming in to create more of a Aslyum feel to our Mise en Scene. It will be a struggle for us to get beds in and out of the college so we have decided to push chairs together and get white sheets to throw over them to create the Beds. This will hoepfully have the same affect on the audience than what the beds would.

Overall, Mary liked our ideas for our Thriller Film opening and we will be going ahead with everything we have decided. We are looking forward to start filming our opening to our best ability.

Our Filming Schedule

SCHEDULE

Wednesday 6th Feb- Dans Lesson- we are aiming to organise ourselves , as we will start actually filming on Friday, therefore in Dans lesson we will be gathering up our props , investigating whether the setting of the rooms are what we want , establish how we do make-up and how this could be seen as realistic.

Tuesday 12th Feb- No Lesson- We hope to begin filming most of our opening.

Wednesday 13th Feb- Dans Lesson- Continuing  filming

Friday 15th Feb - Mary's Lesson- Filming, At this point we hope to get the counselling room for our opening but this still has to be decided as Mary has to ask permission.

Pictures of Our Pitch Presentation

This is us explaing to Mary, What the title of our Thriller Film opening will be and Why. Also, Why does that certain film title relate to our Thriller Film Opening.

 

This is part of our Presentation presented on the Big Screen. This is when we expalined to Mary about our Mise en Scene and the type of Props we will use in our Opening. We then presented our Story Board next to show her the full style of our opening and what type of shots will be used.

 

 

This is us further explaining our Story Board and why we have chosen these type of shots shown in our Story Board to use in our Thriller Opening and what the affect will be on the audience.

Our Pitch