Yesterday Me and Shelley decided we to record some more footage. Neelam was not around so could not do it but as we haven't long left we thought it would be best just to record something. We changed our idea again as we could not find a male to film yesterday and we was in need of some footage.
We chose to go back to our mentally unstable girl and her dolls. However, we filmed at Shelley's house so we had a bedroom setting which made it more understandable. We used a variety of shots and used a mirror which gave really good effects! We have lots of high angle shots, low angle, close ups, extreme close ups. We tried to do a silhoette but I don't think it worked as well as we hoped.
Our idea was about china dolls messing with the little girl's mind. She is suddenly woken up and her lights start to flicker. She walks over to the mirror and her reflection is herself with make-up smeared across her face. The dolls are on her bed and in her reflection. I played the girl.
Me and Shelley both took turns doing the camera shots and worked together to decide where it should be positioned and how to set the scene. I think if we edit it really well it can be an exellent piece. However, we need to show Neelam and see what she thinks of it too.
We want to go back to the idea havin a series of shots like Se7en. Our piece makes sense but doesn't. It has that effect of confusin so the audience wants to carry on watching it to see what the dolls have to do with the little girl and why her reflection is different to her normal self. Hopefully we should not experiance problems with the continuity and it will link and look very psycological.
We have not discussed the music yet as we will need to edit it to see what kind of piece will suit it.
Monday, 20 April 2009
Friday, 17 April 2009
Questionaire
This questionaire was created by Shelley. I have read over it and I think it would be really good to use.
1) Gender?
Male Female
2) How old are you?
11-14 15-18 19-23 24-27 28+3)
3)What appeals to you the most in a Thriller?
The soundtrack The cast Director Plot Others
Please state..................
4) What is your favourite sub-genre in a Thriller?
Horror Psychological Action Crime Sci-fi Others
Please state.......................
5) What was the last Thriller you watched?
6) What mark would you give it (out of 10)? if the number is high, what exactly appealed to youif the number is low, would could have been better?
7) Who do you focus more on when watching a Thriller?
The Protagonist The Antagonist
8) What do you find predictable/irritating when you watch any thriller?
1) Gender?
Male Female
2) How old are you?
11-14 15-18 19-23 24-27 28+3)
3)What appeals to you the most in a Thriller?
The soundtrack The cast Director Plot Others
Please state..................
4) What is your favourite sub-genre in a Thriller?
Horror Psychological Action Crime Sci-fi Others
Please state.......................
5) What was the last Thriller you watched?
6) What mark would you give it (out of 10)? if the number is high, what exactly appealed to youif the number is low, would could have been better?
7) Who do you focus more on when watching a Thriller?
The Protagonist The Antagonist
8) What do you find predictable/irritating when you watch any thriller?
16th April - Meeting
Yesterday we had a meeting. We had agreed to film our new idea but it was raining. It was not the only problem, we didn't have a setting to film. Nobody had a shed that we were able to use or a rundown house.
We discussed it a little more but chose to do another idea instead. We want to still keep with the psyco man but have him in an area which is easily accessable. Coming up with various places, we chose on Hainult Forest. We thought it would be a good setting.
Now we know where we were going to film, we thought of ideas. We are going to have a psycotic man that attacks a women. However, it starts off with him digging a whole in the mud. He then has several flash backs.The first will be of him pulling the womens hair and her spinning around to reveal the horror in her face (long shot and close up). It then goes back to the man digging the hole (high angle shot). Another flashback of the lady slapping the mans face, he lets her go and she tries to run but falls to the ground (midshots). Again, it goes back to the man at the presant time and he's laughing (low angle shot). Here I suggested we use a graphic match and have the man laughing in the presant and then in his flash back. After the GM it then goes to the women as she crawls back feeling around for something to throw (long shot). We have not decided what it will be yet but i think an alchol bottle would be good to use. She throws it at the man and as it passes the camera, the shot fades back to the man whilst digging a hole. His face is angry this time and some blood runs down his face where the object hit him (close up and extream close up on the blood). The last flashback will be the man picking up the objects and hitting the women (long shot from behind the man). It then goes back to the presant and we see a hand coming out of the mud as it twitches (high angle). A photo of the women is the thrown ontop of the "grave".
The camera shots/I have mentioned are only what I am suggesting. They are yet to change.
The music will be deep and slow. Were not really sure what kind we are going to use, we will just have to look at some. We also want to add sound of thunder.
When we do the flash backs we will use flashes like lightening.
We have a few ideas of people we could use but we have yet to contact them. We are not sure when we can film as yesterday it rained and the weather is likely to be wet for the next few days.
At this point I suggested we used a graphic match. We will have him laughing/smiling at the end of the last shot and then in the flash back he will still be laughing as he approaches the women
We will see his wierdness threw his laughter as he hurts her. The final shot will be of her hand twitching coming out of the dirt and the man throwing a picture of the women ontop of her "grave".
The music will be very deep and
We discussed it a little more but chose to do another idea instead. We want to still keep with the psyco man but have him in an area which is easily accessable. Coming up with various places, we chose on Hainult Forest. We thought it would be a good setting.
Now we know where we were going to film, we thought of ideas. We are going to have a psycotic man that attacks a women. However, it starts off with him digging a whole in the mud. He then has several flash backs.The first will be of him pulling the womens hair and her spinning around to reveal the horror in her face (long shot and close up). It then goes back to the man digging the hole (high angle shot). Another flashback of the lady slapping the mans face, he lets her go and she tries to run but falls to the ground (midshots). Again, it goes back to the man at the presant time and he's laughing (low angle shot). Here I suggested we use a graphic match and have the man laughing in the presant and then in his flash back. After the GM it then goes to the women as she crawls back feeling around for something to throw (long shot). We have not decided what it will be yet but i think an alchol bottle would be good to use. She throws it at the man and as it passes the camera, the shot fades back to the man whilst digging a hole. His face is angry this time and some blood runs down his face where the object hit him (close up and extream close up on the blood). The last flashback will be the man picking up the objects and hitting the women (long shot from behind the man). It then goes back to the presant and we see a hand coming out of the mud as it twitches (high angle). A photo of the women is the thrown ontop of the "grave".
The camera shots/I have mentioned are only what I am suggesting. They are yet to change.
The music will be deep and slow. Were not really sure what kind we are going to use, we will just have to look at some. We also want to add sound of thunder.
When we do the flash backs we will use flashes like lightening.
We have a few ideas of people we could use but we have yet to contact them. We are not sure when we can film as yesterday it rained and the weather is likely to be wet for the next few days.
At this point I suggested we used a graphic match. We will have him laughing/smiling at the end of the last shot and then in the flash back he will still be laughing as he approaches the women
We will see his wierdness threw his laughter as he hurts her. The final shot will be of her hand twitching coming out of the dirt and the man throwing a picture of the women ontop of her "grave".
The music will be very deep and
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Wednesday 1st Meeting
Today Neelam wasn't in. Me and Shelley redrew our story board and came up with a better idea. We have decided to use lots of different shots like the opening of Se7en. We have planned a simple story line and worked around it. I don't tink that with our plan we will need a complicated story. Our shots and effects will be good enough to draw an audience, just like as in Se7en; we don't really know what it's going to be about but thats the best thing about it.
We thought of using an idea also like "Train Spotting". We liked the part when he gives a list of things you'll need to get off heroin. We began to think of ideas related to this but decided not to use drugs. However we do like the idea of a man on his own in a run down place like in the film.
We want to use the idea of a man who lives alone. He lives off cold beans and cigarets. We are going for a psycological problem. We are going to show pictures of girls he fancied during his school days, with hearts around them and then crosses. This shows his obsession. He will then have several flash backs of him killing them. I think with the right effects we could make it look really effective.
We was thinking of places to film. We wanted to use a run down place but as none of live in a run down home, we thought maybe a shed. It would be good to use a shed because if the man had visiters, they wouldn't go in his shed so it could be very secretive. Also we do not want to show the mans face. This would create alot of suspence.
The shots will vary but I think we may be tempted to use alot of close ups. We have to make sure that we do not do this. Shots the create silohettes will be great to use. Also low angles would make the man look powering.
We haven't decided on music yet and I'm not sure really what we will choose. We need a good pace to match the speed of our opening so we may need to choose they genre of music after we have edited.
We thought of using an idea also like "Train Spotting". We liked the part when he gives a list of things you'll need to get off heroin. We began to think of ideas related to this but decided not to use drugs. However we do like the idea of a man on his own in a run down place like in the film.
We want to use the idea of a man who lives alone. He lives off cold beans and cigarets. We are going for a psycological problem. We are going to show pictures of girls he fancied during his school days, with hearts around them and then crosses. This shows his obsession. He will then have several flash backs of him killing them. I think with the right effects we could make it look really effective.
We was thinking of places to film. We wanted to use a run down place but as none of live in a run down home, we thought maybe a shed. It would be good to use a shed because if the man had visiters, they wouldn't go in his shed so it could be very secretive. Also we do not want to show the mans face. This would create alot of suspence.
The shots will vary but I think we may be tempted to use alot of close ups. We have to make sure that we do not do this. Shots the create silohettes will be great to use. Also low angles would make the man look powering.
We haven't decided on music yet and I'm not sure really what we will choose. We need a good pace to match the speed of our opening so we may need to choose they genre of music after we have edited.
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Some Random Media Photos
I made this and though I would post it to show others what great fun we have doing our media course work.
Thursday, 26 March 2009
Wednesday 26th
Shelley uploaded the footage due to me and Neelam on a school trip. Shelley said that it didn't make much sense so we have decided to go back to our orginal idea. I am very glad that we filmed it so early because now that means that we still have time to shoot something else. I think we may go back to our original idea of using different shots to set the mood instead of an actual story line, this way the continuity will not be as much of a problem. I personally like the idea of a drug user. It would be easy to shoot because we could just do lot of different shots and use effects to make them swirly, like the person is hallusinating. I also think it would be great if we used a shot from a camera fone, like the person is at a party surrounded by peer pressure. We will need to speak as a group tomorrow when we are all together.
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Saturday 21st - Filming
Today we went to St Chads Park to film our piece. We decided prior to this to do it in the back of the park as we will get less disruptions. We set up our scene and Shelley began doing my makeup whilst Neelam set up the camera and tripod. The makeup went really well and i look really freaky!
Neelam worked with the camera and Shelley helped. We done a few shots of me playin with the doll until we relised we forgot a knife. Neelam went back to her house to get one as she lived the closest. Shelley continued filming me using different shots. We then had to stop because Neelam wasn't back as she was absent for about an hour because she needed to sort something else out, and we couldn't do anything else as we needed her with us.
When she finally arrived, she filmed Shelley walking past me and a few more shots before the "dead body" scene which was my turn to do the cinmetography. Fake blood was applied to Neelams neck and the tree. I done a shot of Neelam with the blood on the tree, but the blood wasn't very visable. This didn't matter though as I did another shot without the blood on the tree which was ALOT better and would be great to use.
I think we may have experianced a few problems with our continuity though. Although it was sunny, it was windy so some of our props kept blowing away. Also, we realised later on that when we used different shots, we hadnt put the props back the way they started so we may experiance a few problems when editing. Additionally our interruption where Neelam was away for some time, we forgot what shots we did and didn't do. Hopefully we can work our way around this and if not we may have to refilm a few parts. We have a used a variety of angles so they should connect alot better than out perliminary exercise.
Here is a slide show of few photos of our filming:
Neelam worked with the camera and Shelley helped. We done a few shots of me playin with the doll until we relised we forgot a knife. Neelam went back to her house to get one as she lived the closest. Shelley continued filming me using different shots. We then had to stop because Neelam wasn't back as she was absent for about an hour because she needed to sort something else out, and we couldn't do anything else as we needed her with us.
When she finally arrived, she filmed Shelley walking past me and a few more shots before the "dead body" scene which was my turn to do the cinmetography. Fake blood was applied to Neelams neck and the tree. I done a shot of Neelam with the blood on the tree, but the blood wasn't very visable. This didn't matter though as I did another shot without the blood on the tree which was ALOT better and would be great to use.
I think we may have experianced a few problems with our continuity though. Although it was sunny, it was windy so some of our props kept blowing away. Also, we realised later on that when we used different shots, we hadnt put the props back the way they started so we may experiance a few problems when editing. Additionally our interruption where Neelam was away for some time, we forgot what shots we did and didn't do. Hopefully we can work our way around this and if not we may have to refilm a few parts. We have a used a variety of angles so they should connect alot better than out perliminary exercise.
Here is a slide show of few photos of our filming:
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