Shooting Scripts:

Risk Assessment:

Storyboard's:

Target Audience:

Potential Target Audience: 16-35 years old.

This is because our opening sequence starts with a 16 year old girl and a 18/19 year old boy and the rest of the plot is about the girl being older. We chose this age range of target audience because they will be able to relate to our plot more and it also links in the ages of the characters.

Target audience of a lot of psychological thriller is 16 +, this is because the film could contain some violence and some things that are quite disturbing which shouldn’t be seen by young people.

Our target audience is 16 – 35 because there is a car crash which could be quite upsetting to younger viewers and there are links with psychological problems.                      

Roles and Responsibilities:

Camera Work:  All three of us

Director: Tiffany Pickford

Props/ Costumes: Brogan Adams

Location: Maisie Hesketh

Equipment: Maisie Hesketh

Organisation:  Tiffany Pickford

Time Management: Brogan Adams

Co-Ordination: All three of us

Actors: Brogan Adams and male to be decided approximately 18/19 years old

Locations: Birmingham Bull Ring

                   Birmingham New Street (Christmas Market)

                   Folly Lane, Cheddleton

                   Derby Street/ Broad Street  and Aldi Car Park, Leek

Dates and Times: Wednesday 21^st December 2011 (most of the day)

Mise-en-Scene:

Used at the start when they meet. Wanted to use a busy place. So it isolates the young girl and we would have the crowd blurred and wanted to create a time lapse. Also it fits with the location of where the carousel is.

 Links with the theme of circle. It is also associated with childhood, happiness. This relates to the feelings of the characters and flashback of the girl in her younger days.

Used in the car crash scene.  The colour red is associated with danger, this is why the red car is going to hit the other car.

Used in the car crash scene. The colour white is associated with innocence; this is why the white car is going to be hit by the red car, to suggest that it is innocent in the crash. However this is a mystery because you don’t now who’s fault it is.

Used when the girl wakes up in a hospital bed, she opens her eyes and see’s bright lights. We decided to use a hospital scene so it would fit to the conventions of thriller, because something bad has happened in the car crash.

We are going to use a street and Birmingham and one in Leek to show the girl and boy walking down the road, happy and singing to each other. Birmingham is going to be very busy, whereas Leek isn’t to suggest they have been walking for quite a long time to get back to the car.

We are going to use the car park to contrast against the busy town, also you could see the black figure here. Which links in the genre and creates mystery and tension.

Pitch:

Audience Feedback:

 Presentation and Audience Feedback.

We created a pitch for our thriller opening sequence idea, and presented it to the rest of our class on Wednesday 23rd November. We created a questionnaire and handed out copies to each person for them to fill in whilst we were presenting our pitch. We brought all of the completed questionnaires together and have made a summary of everybody’s opinions. 

What did you think of our overall pitch?

People said that our pitch was good, clear and well detailed. Also mentioned was the strength of our pitch. They also thought that it was a good idea to use pictures on the presentation and to explain them verbally instead of reading from the text on the board as it allowed the audience to connect and feel more involved. However, they said that some points could have been clearer and some points and ideas better explained as sections were slightly confusing. Nonetheless, overall, our feedback for this question was positive.

What did you think was our best idea? Why?

The main answer to this question seemed to be the car crash for various reasons including ‘dramatic’, ‘realistic’ and ‘dynamic’. Next was the singling out of one person in a crowd – our audience said that this would be dramatic and effective if it was pulled off well. Camera shots including focus pull were also mentioned positively as this was said to effectively show emotion and isolation. They also seemed to like the idea of the sparkler burning down throughout the film. Some people liked the drug use as it allowed the audience to relate to the characters effectively and others mentioned the originality of the ideas themselves.

What did you think was our worst idea? How could we improve this idea?

The feedback seemed to suggest that the idea of graphic match through circles was our least effective idea as it was perhaps too complicated or irrelevant. However, on further explanation our audience seemed to like the idea and to understand the relevancy more. Other people said that the drugs made the events of the sequence too obvious and took the enigma –which is a key convention within the genre- away from it. Also mentioned as a weakness was the fact that our pitch didn’t mention a specific plot.

Did you think our ideas matched the genre? If yes, how? If no, why?

There was an obvious split in the answers to this question; however, the majority said yes. The reasoning for answering ‘yes’ was because it conformed to many conventions through different forms including psychological, flashbacks, memories, car crashes and audience relation through drugs. Those who answered no said that they could not see the connection with the ideas of childhood. Also stated was that they could not answer as they did not feel that the idea of circles had been given enough explanation for them to make a decision upon.

Was the sub-genre/hybrid clear?

Again, the answers were split; those who said yes mentioned conventions, psychology, and flashbacks. There were again also those who were unsure, and those who found that it wasn’t mentioned or was unclear.

Target Audience

Our questionnaire simply confirmed the fact that our target audience should be from the age of fifteen to the age of thirty.

At which stage of Todorov’s theory does our sequence come in?

Our questionnaire also confirmed that our opening sequence will come in at the second stage of Todorov’s theory; the disruption of equilibrium.

Genre Research- Psychological Thriller:

Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the broad ranged thriller with heavy focus on characters. However, it often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre, along with the typical traits of the thriller genre. In addition to drama and mystery, many psychological thrillers contain elements of, and often overlap with, the horror genre, particularly psychological horror.

·       Psychological – Elements that are related to the mind or processes of the mind; they are mental rather than physical in nature. Sometimes the suspense comes from within one solitary character where characters must resolve conflicts with their own minds. Usually, this conflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them. These conflicts are made more vivid with physical expressions of the conflict in the means of either physical manifestations, or physical torsions of the characters at play.

·       Thriller – Generally, thrillers focus on plot over character, and thus emphasize intense, physical action over the character's psyche. Psychological thrillers tend to reverse this formula to a certain degree, emphasizing the characters just as much, if not more so, than the plot.

·       Psychological thriller – Characters are no longer reliant on physical strength to overcome their brutish enemies (which is often the case in typical action-thrillers), but rather are reliant on their mental resources, whether it be by battling wits with a formidable opponent or by battling for equilibrium in the character's own mind. The suspense created by psychological thrillers often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds, either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the other's mental state

Devices and Techniques

·      Stream of consciousness – a literary technique which seeks to describe an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes. In psychological thrillers, the narrative tries to manifest the character's psyche through word usage, descriptions, or visuals.

• First-person narrative – a literary technique in which the story is narrated by one or more of the characters, who explicitly refers to him or herself in the first person, that is, "I". This direct involvement that the characters have with the story in turn makes the reader more involved with the characters themselves, and thus able to understand the mechanics of the characters' minds. This technique is often paired with the concept of the unreliable narrator.
• Back-story – the history behind the situation extant at the start of the main story. This deepens the psychological aspect of the story since the reader is able to more fully understand the character; more specifically, what the character's motivations are and how his past has shaped his current cognitive perceptions.
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Themes

Many psychological thrillers have emerged over the past years, all in various media (film, literature, radio, etc.). Despite these very different forms of representation, general trends have appeared throughout the narratives. Some of these consistent themes include:

·       Reality

·       Perception

·       Mind

·       Existence/Purpose

·       Identity

·       Death

These major subgenres help develop the plot of a psychological thriller film, shaping the characters'personalities. eg. usually character will find the true identidy/ the devil side of himself/herself in psychological thriller, in which it is one of the architypes - the loss of innocence.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_thriller

Analyse the opening sequence of at least three films of that genre.(THRILLER)

As our Main task is to create the titles and opening of a new thriller fiction film, we had to analyse three different opening sequences of the thriller genre. We had to make notes on: camerawork, sound, editing, mise-en-scene, narrative and representations. We then had to summarise these findings and relate to how they meet the codes and conventions of a thriller. The films that I am going to analyse are Swordfish, Collateral and Inception.

The opening sequence of a film needs to grip the audience. It needs to set the scene and also introduce the protagonist and/maybe the antagonist. It should suggest some idea of the plot and it needs to create enigma. In the opening sequence something small needs to happen which will link to the main plot. It should also give the audience an idea of what the genre of the film is and lastly it should introduce the narrative according to Todorov’s theory: First stage- equilibrium, second stage- disequilibrium, third stage- recognition if disequilibrium, fourth stage- attempt to repair the disequilibrium and the last stage- return to equilibrium. The opening sequence should not also introduce the protagonist/antagonist but other characters, relationships, places and events. It should also create mood and tone.

There are a lot codes and convention for a thriller. The first: there must be a crime at the core of the narrative (these can often be murder, but not all the time).The second: it must have a complex narrative structure, with false paths, clues and resolutions. The third: it must involve a narrative pattern of establishing enigmas which the viewer expects to be resolved. The fifth: it must have a protagonist who is systematically dis-empowered and drawn into a complex web of intrigue by the antagonist. The sixth: extraordinary events should happen in ordinary situations. The seventh: the film must give the audience of the themes of identity. The eighth: it could illustrate themes of mirroring. The ninth: demonstrating themes of voyeurism. The tenth: a protagonist should have a ‘flaw’ which is exploited by the antagonist. The eleventh: the titles can often reflect an aspect of the protagonist/ antagonist psychological state. The twelfth: there is often a scene near the end of the film in which the protagonist is in peril. The last: the mise-en-scene should echo/mirror the protagonist's plight.

The titles could reflect the protagonist/antagonist psychological state, set the mood and tone of the film; they can also suggest the genre of the film. The titles in Swordfish can suggest some idea of the film genre; this is because the title is in the middles of the screen with a black background and is a font which you normally associate with computers as it is coming up as if someone is typing it. This links in with the genre because this technology is normally used with thriller film. As the titles can reflect the state of the character it could suggest something about how the character acts and feels later on in the film, it also sets the mood and tone of dull and dreary. Inception or Collateral doesn’t show any titles at the start of the film or in the opening sequence this can create a sense of enigma for the audience.

The lighting of films is an important part as it creates the mood and atmosphere that the audience should feel but also the mood and tone of the characters. The lighting in Swordfish is very dark inside the café, but very bright outside the café, which you see later on in the opening scene. This creates a sense of unknown and adds suspense because you don’t know what is going to happen when John Travolta is talking but you do when you see outside. This is because it is quite dull inside which sets the mood of confusion and mystery but outside the mood is quite bright and the feeling of knowing what is going on, this is often used in thrillers. The lighting in Collateral is quite similar to this of Inception, this is because you have a sense of what is happening inside the airport which is bright, this is because not a lot can really happen inside an airport with it being that busy except the swapping of the briefcase and the lighting is dim and dull at the taxi depot because the audience don’t know what is happening and why the taxi rides are being used in a thriller film, however that is later on explained. The lighting in Inception is also quite similar in the fact that dark and bright is used. It is bright at the start of the beach but then inside the room and everywhere else it is quite dark. This is because you associate the beach as a happy bright place; the lighting could be used to create a sense of unknown and suspense because it the lighting then darkens as they enter the room. This creates a dull mood for the audience because they realise that the film has now become a thriller and not a happy film as it was when on the beach.

Both digetic and non-digetic sound are used to suggest the genre of the film. In Swordfish, dialogue is used straight away, yet in Collateral and Inception they aren’t, however they are used later on in the opening sequence. Not using dialogue can create a feeling of unknown because you don’t have a full view of what is happening until a character speaks and suggests what is happening. The mood in both Collateral and Inception is mysterious because you don’t know what is going to happen because you don’t hear a character speaking, however even when digetic sound is used you could still feel a sense of mystery as you do in Swordfish. As Swordfish uses digetic sound straight away it could suggest a sense of urgency. Asynchronous sound is used in Swordfish when you can hear the police cars but they are visible, this creates a sense of mystery from the audience and also tension is arising because the audience are curios of what they are going to expect to happen because you usually associate police sirens with crime. The non-digetic sound in Swordfish is subtle and the tempo is increasing the effect this has on the audience is that is builds up tension, something nig is about to happen and the urgency is increased. The sound doesn’t slow down or stop once the man is shot; this suggests the idea that something bigger is going to happen. The digetic sound used in Collateral is asynchronous; the sound of the planes and the people talking sets the location of the airport and can link into the titles. The music used when we can see the taxi rides changes. This can suggest the changing of the time of day and also that it happens every day. The music changes from fast pace music to reggae style music; this can set the mood of the characters, the personality of the characters and also location. Also in Collateral, when the taxi door shuts it is loud and clear, this suggests  Jamie Foxx (taxi driver) is shutting everything out,  he is in his own little world, however it can also in insinuate that his equilibrium is going to be disrupted. Inception uses non-digetic at the very start of the opening sequence with a black screen, creating tension and enigma. It then cuts to the beach, with the sound of the waves and also the sound of kids screaming and playing. This could create a sense of happiness because the beach and kids is associated with happiness and joy; this is juxtaposed with the genre and mood of the film. There is also non-digetic sound which is subtle and the tempo increases when something is about to happen which creates enigma for the audience. The sound of the watch ticking is over exaggerated, which the audience can also hear the lights clattering  this creates the feeling that something is going to happen or time is running out. The ticking then increases and ends with the explosion.

The use of camera angles and movements are very important in the way they are used, so that the audience can identify the genre of the film. The focus Swordfish is mainly on Travolta, this can be shown through close-ups, you can see the other characters but Travolta is the main character shown and the focus is always on him. The focus pulls suggests surveillance, mystery and confusion, where as the low-angles suggest power and pride.  The zooms and the focus pulls show different things around the room, this sets the location. The over the shoulder shot introduces the other two characters and the audience then realise that Travolta isn’t talking directly to the audience (which we first think) but is actually talking to two other people. The mid-shot of the men with guns give the audience the idea of the genre of the film. The aerial shots of the helicopter and establishing shot introduce the outside location. There is a low-angle shot of the man and the helicopter, represent the importance and status.  This can also be shown though the high angle shot of the man and the woman, which represents gender status. The pan shot of the explosion is moving around, which gives the audience the idea that how important the explosion is but also how much the explosion has damaged the buildings and people’s lives. The close ups of Leonardo Di Caprio and the waves introduce both the main character and the location in Inception. The mid-shots of all the characters sitting around the table imply importance and intensity. The close-up of the watch also creates importance.  At the start of Collateral you become aware of the importance of all the characters this is seen through the camera shots. Both Tom Cruise and Jason Statham are seen walking behind people at the airport; the audience knows that they are important characters because of the focus that remains on them. Cruise is shown with a zoom, he is walking slower with swagger shown though slow motion and this indicates that he is a calm controlled man. Whereas Statham is shown through a mid-shot and is walking faster, this is the complete opposite of Cruise and suggests that Cruise has more importance in the film than Statham. Foxx is shown with a pan up this suggests power and status; he isn’t as powerful as Cruise and Statham though because he is sitting down whereas the other two are standing up. Also Foxx isn’t as business like as the others through mise-en-scene and his stance. However, Foxx’s character is still optimistic and hopeful. A pan down is used when Cruise and Statham drop the briefcase and then a pan up when they both pick up a briefcase. This can imply that the briefcase is important in the film as it is focused on it and nothing else.

The editing also helps contribute the codes and conventions of a thriller. All three films Inception, Collateral and Swordfish use jump cuts in the opening sequences. Jump cuts can be used in all three films because they miss out the middles section and join the beginning and end, this can suggest that all three films show a time change.  It is used in Swordfish when Travolta is talking around the table, suggesting that he is talking for a while. Collateral, when Foxx is driving his taxi suggesting the idea that time has passed in the taxi rides and that is all he does all day, every day. Inception, at the start it jump cuts from Di Caprio to the waves. Shot/ reverse shot is used in Inception when they are talking around the table, this can be used to show that there is more than one character and the intensity and tension of the conversation. Fast pace editing and slow paced editing are used in all three of the films. Fast paced editing is used to create tension and excitement for the audience whereas slow paced editing makes the scene calmer.

Both Inception and swordfish use special effects. They both have an explosion in the opening scene, this fits to the codes and conventions of a thriller. This is because they can be both part of the narrative. The explosion is a crime at the core of the narrative and will keep the audience hooked, it also creates an enigma for the audience and they expect it be involved in the main plot and somehow have a resolution. If special effects such as explosions are used in an opening sequence then the audience will carry on watching the film as they will be gripped and excited. This is because they will want to see why the explosion happened and if something bigger will happen in the main plot. Using an explosion can represent death and destruction. Even though both films use it they decide to shoot in different ways. Swordfish’s explosion effects most of the scene this can be shown with the pan shot as it moves around which shows the destruction has had a huge impact, whereas Inception’s explosion is shown by an establishing shot this just sets the scene and doesn’t  show the full extent of how much damage it has caused.

The costumes in Swordfish, Collateral and Inception, are all quite similar. This is because Di Caprio, Cruise, Statham, Travolta and Jackman’s characters are all wearing suits. This can suggest power, status and wealth. Wearing a suit can also represent respect as people respect people who wear suits. Using suits for main characters is effective because it suggests they are powerful throughout the film and they are very important. Di Caprio’s character wears a  brown clothes at the start, brown being associated with the earth, stability, reliability, comfort, endurance and simplicity, later on in the opening sequence he wears a black suit and tie with a white suit. Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery and white is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity and also considered as the colour of perfection. This represents the personality of Di Caprio’s character. Cruise’s character wears a light grey suit and tie with a white shirt. Light grey is associated with security, reliability, intelligence, modesty, dignity and maturity. This can represent the personality of Cruise’s character. Statham wears a black suit and white shirt black being associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery and white with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity and also considered as the colour of perfection. This representing the personality of Statham’s character. Travolta’s character wears a black suit, dark green shirt and black tie. Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery, whereas dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy. This can suggest the personality of Travolta’s character. Foxx’s character wear’s a dark green hoodie with a grey top. This suggests that he isn’t as important as the Cruise and Statham; however this isn’t true because Foxx is the main character being shown in the opening scene of Collateral. Green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy and grey being associated with security, reliability, intelligence, modesty, dignity and maturity, representing the personality of Foxx’s character.  All of these connotations of colours are what the audience expect from the protagonist and antagonist in a thriller film.

 The prop used by Travolta’s character in Swordfish is a cigar and a cutter; this is a phallic symbol and represents masculinity, revealing that he is very masculine. Both Cruise and Statham both use a briefcase in Collateral, this is represented as business-like men and also power. The swap of the briefcase can create the feeling of mystery.  In Inception, Di Caprio’s character gets his gun taken off him from the beach the gun can represent death and crime. This is a huge convention of a thriller film.

The narrative in films is very important, because you need a narrative to make it a film and also to fit the codes and conventions of a thriller film. The narrative of all three films is the changing in time. All three films show hints of changing in time. Swordfish, when they change from the outside location to the airport, airport associated with travel. Inception’s change in time is from the beach to inside, also the change of time through the dreams and Collateral’s change of time can be from the airport to the taxi depot and the change of time with the taxi rides.

Representations shown in the films are important. The representation in Swordfish is law and order and gender. Law and order fits the codes and conventions of a thriller as the police that Travolta’s character is talking to is obviously investigation a crime, and a crime has to be the core of the narrative according to one of the conventions of a thriller. Gender is represented as male dominance; this is shown through the high angle of the man with the woman, suggesting male dominance over women. Also there is no female antagonist or protagonist in the opening sequence. Gender dominance is also represented in Collateral and Inception, this is because there is also no female antagonist or protagonist. Wealth and status is represented in Collateral, this is because of the costumes being worn by Cruise, Statham and Foxx. Cruise and Statham are both wearing suits and Foxx isn’t representing power. Wealth being represented through the jobs of the characters.  Foxx’s character is a taxi driver usually associated with less wealthy whereas, Cruise and Statham’s character are business-like associated with higher wealth.

The mise-en-scene used in Collateral is smart, sophisticated, very business-like, dark clothing and sunglasses. Swordfish’s mise-en-scene is very mysterious at the start as most of the opening sequence is Travolta talking in the café, we can however see that it is a posh café when he stands up and exits the café to outside. A bank is used to suggest business. It then cuts to the airport the idea of travel. The mise-en-scene in Inception is also business-like because they are wearing suits and are sitting round a huge table.

In Swordfish, Travolta’s character talks a lot about other thriller films, this can suggest the idea of the genre of the film, also he talks about people being hostage and this gives the audience an idea of what is going to happen next and also the storyline. The character is also demanding the police.

In Collateral, the first two characters that you see are Tom Cruise and Jason Statham, this could imply importance, however, you dot see much of them in the opening sequence but you still feel the importance of them. This is because you saw them two first so they must be of some importance. The taxi rides build up tension; this is because the audience don’t understand why they are in the opening sequence so much, so it builds it up because something must happen with the taxi rides being involved in some kind of way. The taxi rides also build a relationship with Jamie Foxx. This is very important because if something happens to him then you will feel sorry for him, empathy because he is such a nice guy. The audience also gets the sense that something is going to happen to him. You don’t know what is going to happen to Cruise and Statham in Collateral, the audience kind of forgets about them and the tension at the start. This could be good because if something happens to them you will be shocked.

The story of Inception is very confusing as it changes between time, the dreams and real life. If the story is confusing it could grip the audience because they will want to carry on watching the film, fitting the codes and conventions of a thriller. The narrative of this film is a complex structure, so it can make the audience question what is going to happen at the end.

 Overall, I think that all three opening sequences meet most of the codes and conventions of a thriller. I think Swordfish gave too much of the plot away and Collateral and Inception didn’t give too much away which would still leave the audience hooked. Also by not giving too much of the plot away it builds up tension because you don’t know what is going to happen next. Out of all three of the films I would personally watch the rest of Collateral and Inception.

Genre research (continued):

HYBRID
Thrillers are mostly hybrids, with other genres. These are: action-thrillers, crime-caper thrillers, western thrillers, film-noir thriller, romantic comedy thrillers and many more. There are different types of films that are known to promote, intense excitement, suspense, high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectations, uncertainty, anxiety and nerve wrecking tension.

SUB-GENRESA thriller genre can include elements of other genres, these are known as sub-genres. These are: conspiracy thrillers, crime thriller, erotic thriller, financial thriller, psychological thriller, rape and revenge,  super natural thriller, legal thriller and political thrillers.

CODES AND CONVENTIONSThere are many conventions in a thriller, which have to be used as much as possible to male the thriller effect work.

a crime at the core of the narrative(often murder, but not all the time)
a complex narrative structure, with false paths, clues and resolutions
a narrative pattern of establishing enigmas which the viewer expects to be resolved
a protagonist who is systematically dis-empowered and drawn into a complex web of intrigue by the antagonist
extraordinary events happening in ordinary situations.
themes of identity
themes of mirroring
themes of voyeurism
protagonist with 'flaw' which is exploited by the antagonist
titles often reflect an aspect of the protagonist/ antagonist psychological state
often a scene near the end of the film in which the protagonist is in peril
mise-en-scene which echos/mirrors the protagonist's plight


THE TOP 10 BEST RATED THRILLERS

1. Pulp Fiction 
2. The Dark Knight
3. Inception
4. Goodfellas
5. Rear Window
6. Psycho
7. The Silence Of The Lambs
8. The Usual supects
9. Se7en
10. Momento

THE TOP 10 LESS RATED THRILLERS:

1. Compelling Evidence
2. Heaven Strewn
3. The Sobbing Stone
4. Rocket Attack U.S.A
5. Dead At The Box Office
6. Blood Deep
7. At Dawn They Sleep
8. Leather And Iron
9. BigBrother.com
10. The Life Zone

Genre research:

A thriller can be a novel, play or a film. It must thrill the audience which a person thing or experience. It must haven an exciting plot which involves some sort of crime. Thrillers are a genre which uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements. A thriller usually involves heroes and villains and the villains are determined to destroy the hero or the country. They must create some kind of emotions, these being; apprehension, exhilaration of excitement and breathlessness, these emotions must generate the thrill.

There is a lot of different kinds of thriller: spy thriller, action-adventure thriller, medical-thriller, police thriller, romantic thriller, historical thriller, political thriller, religious thriller, high-tech thriller and military thriller.

more research to be posted.

Main Task:

Our main task is to create the titles and opening sequence of a thriller film, it must be a maximum of two minutes.

We had to find some research of thriller, we had to answer these questions:
What is a thriller film? Consider hybrid and sub genre
What does it need to achieve?
How has the genre developed historically?
Refer to key examples

 What are the conventions of the genre?
Technical elements, narrative, representations. etc. ?

my Prezi for the evaluation of the preliminary task.

http://prezi.com/a08eowwynca5/tiffs-preliminary-media-evaluation/

Wednesday 19th October (session 1 and 4)

We had both of these lessons to create a Prezi for the evaluation of our preliminary task. However, we had a bit of a delay this is because in  the first lesson we couldn't do anything because we couldn't access our school email addresses which we needed to create our Prezi. We went to see the technicians and they sorted them out so we were then able to create our Prezi in our next lesson.

Tuesday 18th October (session 4)

Today we watched all the preliminary tasks in the class so we could give feedback and evaluate the films. We had to evaluate if the product included at least one shot reverse shot and how effective it was,  does the product demonstrate match on action and how p the timing was and also whether it broke the 180 degree rule. We also had to evaluate the cinematography, titles, suitability and the strengths and weaknesses of the film.

Monday 17th October (after school)

Me and Brogan Adams decided to stay after college to finish editing our clip and burn to a disc ready for the class viewing on Tuesday 18th October.

Storyboard for film

This is the storyboard for our preliminary task.

Wednesday 12th October (session 4)

In this lesson we edited some more of our clips, cut out the clips that we didn’t need and we then put them all in the right order. We then had to render it all. We had to speed some of the clips up and faded some of the colours so the clips looked right together; this is because the HD camera was brighter than the other camera that was used. We then realized that we had broken the 180 degree rule because they filmed from the left-side of one character and the right-side of the other character. We then had to research how t flip this, so we weren’t breaking the rule and found that we had to use the ‘flop’ technique on Final Cut Express. We were able to the flip the clip around we saved us from having to re-film it.

Wednesday 12th October (session 1)

We continued to sort out the clips that we needed and then went on to edit and re-order them. We then had to render all the clips which took a while.

Tuesday 11th October (session 4)

Jamie Oliver came into this lesson and we had a tutorial on how to use iMovie, Final Cut Express and iDVD together. After this, we then looked at the clips that Brogan and Maisie had uploaded the lesson before and sorted out them out to what we needed and what we didn't.

Wednesday 5th October (session 1 and 4)

I was ill on this day, which meant i wasn't in college. This meant that Brogan Adams and Maisie Hesketh had to change their roles around. So Brogan and Maisie had to do all the directing and the co-ordination. We also had to change our personnel, instead of Brogan they used Laura Beswick and they used Callum Bowyer and not Mr Owen but they kept the location the same.

Tuesday 4th October (session 4)

Due to staff availability at college, we were unable to film our preliminary task so we had to re-schedule our filming to Wednesday 5th October. However, instead we had a tutorial from Jamie Oliver of how to use final cut express and how to use both of the video cameras. Once we had the tutorial, we had a little time to play around with the cameras and the programme.

Wednesday 28th September (session 4)

In this lesson we discussed more ideas for our storyboard and we made a rough copy between us then decided to each do an individual copy at home. We also discussed the plan of production, listing jobs and responsibilities, times and dates for filming and the location.

THE PLAN

Location:

 inside college (new hall)
 a teachers office (we chose to use somewhere which showed authority)
 desk and chair must be in the office


Personnel:

 Brogan Adams (subject to change)
 Mr Owen (subject to change)

Equipment:

 desk and chairs
 notebook and pen
 office equipment
 box of tissues


Roles and Responsibilities:

 camera work- Maisie Hesketh

 director- Tiffany Pickford (help from Brogan Adams and Maisie Hesketh                    

 props/costumes- Brogan Adams

 location-all

 equipment-all

 organisation- Maisie Hesketh                                   

 time management- Brogan Adams

 co-ordination- Tiffany Pickford

Dates and Times:

Tuesday 4th October session 4