In our short film, our actors will be Georgia Lansbury who will be playing a victim/kidnapped girl, and Samuel Bysouth whose role will be the french capturer. Our setting will be in the drama room in our school so we have access to lighting that we can adjust. The mise-en-scene in our film consists of:
costume- Our victim is wearing pale colours to suggest that she is an outcast and a blurred figure. She is also Blonde as we will be filming in a dark place so her hair will stand out and therefore be seen. Our capturer will be wearing a black suit to suggest that he is wealthy and a much higher status than the girl. His hear is also big and curly and he looks foreign.
lighting- dim and dark to suggest danger and a tense atmosphere
props- a chair which the victim will be tied to.
Analysis of final preliminary task:
Looking back over our final film, there are many things that i would change but there are also some aspects that i love about it an will use to help me create our final task.
Weaknesses
One of the main weaknesses in our performance was arranging to actually film our short thriller. When it comes to actually filming for our final task, I Will make sure that we are more organised and prompt with our rehearsal times.
Lighting was one of the main issues with our production. We had planned our setting to be dark and dreary which would have been perfect in creating a thrilling and tense atmosphere. Unfortunately, this only gave us more problems to sort out when it actually came to the filming. We were in our school drama room with access to stage lights to play around with. What seemed bright to us in the room, on camera, was too dark and took away any other features in the film. Because of this, we had to film our production more than four times to get the lighting as good as we could get it.
We also had some problems with our tripod. We wanted to use a tripod to prevent from any shakiness that might occur if someone was holding the camera by hand. But using the tripod stopped us from shooting certain types of shots. At one point in our short film, we have a shot of someones feet then then gradually rises up to the back of their shoulder which then forms an 'over the shoulder' shot. We couldn't use the tripod for this so we had to depend on my steady hand. Luckily it worked but it might not have done in another situation. If i want to use this particular shot next time, i will make sure that we look at every angle of shooting it before using my 'steady hand'.
Strengths
Good aspects of our film i think was our choice of characters. The two characters that we used were very different and diverse. One was a boy with really curly, brown, big hair. He looked foreign which then decided to use as a feature of his when filming. We asked him to put on a french accent. This worked really well. Not only did it sound good, but having the man french, gave another feature that was completely different to the victim. This also would have made the victim feel more tense as he is from a different country to them.
Overall, I think our first attempt of making a short thriller film was a sucess. We managed to stick to our brief and contain the features that we were asked to put in. It has now left us with more experience and an idea of what things work and what things dont work when trying to film a production. Here is our storyboard for our premilinary task:
Institution
For our final live filming task, we will be using Warner Bros. pictures as our instituation. This is mainly because of their great global sucess and there past headline fims that were made under their name. If our film was to then be made by then, hopefully it will follow on from other remarkable works they have produced in the past.
Warner Bros Pictures
Warner Brothers pictures is one of the major film studios to this date. It has several subsidary companies including warner brothers televison, warner home video and New line cinema. The comany is the head and forefront of every entertainment companies. Warner owns half of the CW television networks and is growing bigger everyday.Characters:
Location- school
Lighting- natural
When filming, we will keep all of these feautures in mind to create the best outcome possible for our opening thriller film.
DETAILS FOR OPENING- After filming
Characters:
Mollee Vasey (Me)- Victim
We chose me to play the part of tyhe victim because i have a lot of experience with drama a si am taking it for A-level. I have also starred in other videos in the past. We felt that with my experience, i could really capture the role of my charatcer quite quickly and still perform a good role.
Amy Edmonds-Friend of victim and mislead stalker
Locations
Our first location is inside a room. We have used on wall which we have covered pictures on. This represents the stalkers room. The first 20-30 seconds of our film is all footage of this wall. We filmed this almost straight away. There was some time that we took afterwards to edit thsi part of the film before going on to filming the rest of the thriller. This was because we werent sure how it would look and if it would look obvious as to what we were trying to show to the audience.
The seconds location we chose was in a room with a big window in which over looked our school carpark. We chose this as our stalker is seen looking out of the window. We wanted to be able to have the victim standing at a place where we could actually see her through the window without having to cut the shot. This worked really well and we were able to show some really good angles within the camera shots.
Audience Questionaire
We put together a screening where we got a group of people together to watch our thriller opening. This audience we had to gather together had to be within the age range of our target audience. We then created a small questionaire which we gave out to the audience to fill in. We useda range of open and closed questions to get the best possible answers to help us see what we could have improved but also what worked really well. This organisation was very helpful.
This is a filmed version of our evaluation which we presented to a group of teenagers in the age range of our target audience.
