Titles

This is the font that we are going to use to portray the jobs and roles of the members of our group. We use this font to create an equilibrium because it is a calm font and therefore the shock/ dis-equilibrium will be more effective later on in the film.

This is the title of our film and the font that it will be in. This connotes the psychological element of our film as it is in handwriting, this makes the main character more personal to the viewers as it is almost like he has written it.

We have used these fonts from the website; www.dafonts.com

Character Descriptions And Casting

This is a picture of my character will be the main character. He is a well dressed smart business man to show stereotypes of rich men in suits that is wealthy and living in central London. He has a middle class attitude but he is a high class, showing he is not as snobby as most wealthy people are. Unfortunately he is very lonely and he try to not let it get to him. He has a few psychological problems and later on in the title sequence, you will see that he starts to see his past, and his past was not pleasant.

The second character is Kayleigh, which in this film is only shown sitting on a bench when it triggers that flashback, and the actual flashback its self where she is killed. Kayleigh is an important character, and seems to be a middle classed women who maybe was this man's girlfriend at one point. She dresses in black which is mysterious and may have a twist in the film.

Shooting Schedule

As a group, we kept to this shooting schedule very precisely and am proud to say it worked really well and we finished all are filming on time. By doing this, it gave us maximum time for editing.

Script

In our movie, we have decided not to use any dialogue speech because we find that if no one speaks and their is just a soundtrack playing, it creates a sinister mood. Anyway the main priority of the film is to attract viewers and make them want to carry on watching the rest of the film. So by using dialogue, it will break the mood and atmosphere and make the film look cheap and tacky. Moreover, the viewers will be so interested in the title sequence they won't even want anyone to speak in the title sequence.

List Of Props, Costumes And Locations

Pratically all the filming was done in London, because it has a large number of good places to film and we used this to our advantage. The rest of it was filmed in Camerons house acting as Nathan's house. The props we used were costumes, like a grey suit and white shirt, briefcase, camera, tripod and destinations.

Storyboards

Sound

Soundtracks and sound are key in thrillers. This is due to the mood, tension and atmosphere it creates while people sit in their edge of their seats terrified by what's going to happen. I find that when the sound starts of really slow and quiet it tends to build a bit of tension, and then when a suspicious scene comes along, or a runaway scene, the music tends to have a fast pace and very loud. I have done some research on youtube for some tracks that will be most suitable for my thriller.

- www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_M-HYUqYYM

- www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWX-Cz4aQzM

- www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSA4duW_M7c&feature=related

- www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eO0unQGuiU&feature=fvst

- www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLPL2gwlynk&playnext=1&list=PL12D62470349F0A87

After this research of soundtracks and good idea's, our group have decided to produce our own music for this thriller, because we can make exactly what we want and make it unique to our film. This would be more productive and beneficial to our film.

Shot List

Film Synopsis

Flashback at the beginning causes the main character to attempt to run away.

In the middle, the main characters friend (Cameron) finds out that he his friend (Nathan) has killed people.

The audiences are made to believe that people from Nathan’s past are after him.

In the final moments the audience discover that he is mental and he ends up killing himself to escape from his troubled past.

Initial Ideas

Zombieland - Slow Motion

The pictures above are from the trailer of the film 'zombieland' and when viewing it, it made me realise how effective the editing slow-motion was. These photos are all during a slow motion scene. The reason I think slow-motion is effective is because it makes a change from a normal speed paced scene and you get to watch things in more detail, or example a zombies tooth slowly sinking into the neck of a human. When making my thriller, I would like to use a slow motion scene because it can be very spooky when used properly and will help get the audience scared and unsettled for the film.

Iron Man - Rule Of Thirds

In the holidays I took time out to watch some films to help with my film making skills. And after watching iron man 1, I noticed they used a lot of rule of thirds and I find this very effective and good to look at. It appears really nice and the mise-en scene is well thought out. By looking at these 3 images I took above, I would really like to use this in my film, perhaps a ghost could appear in the centre of the screen while two humans, one on the left and one on the right. Rule of thirds look really well when adding a eyeline match shot aswell, because it's bang on in the centre of the screen. This could look really effective to the viewers. The colour contrasts between these shots really show the thought the artists have put in, because it makes the whole composistion unique.

Fargo Storyboard

Fargo didn't really please my standards of a film. The opening sequence totally bored me and I switched off when watching it. The reason I thought this is because the scenes and shots were very dull and the colours seemed to be all the same, a white and light blue colour. Also some of the shots on the road took around 8 - 10 seconds to finish, and staring at the same thing isn't very pleasant.

Although I did not like the opening sequence, it did have a good use of mise-en scene throughout the start. For example, in the snow it was just a blank white screen, but then the fog disappeared and you began to see the fog lights of a car from a distance and it was on the right side of the shot and not central, so it shows the director has thought about this when filming it. By having the car on the right hand side, it allows the viewers to look around the area.

The other thing about this I liked was the credits that came up on screen, because they faded in from the snow and appeared in a multiple of places like bottom right, or bottom left etc. The font colour was black which contrasted nicely with the white/blue background and the lettering was very spacial, so it filled the majority of the screen. I may steal this idea for my own film because it's a very modern trick and looks nice across the screen.