Props

On Tuesday we will be shooting the 'dark room' scene for this we will need to prepare over the weekend and make sure we bring in the specific props and costumes we need to do this.

• photographs - to hand on walls and add into the scrapbook
  


• long dark coat with dark makeup



• a prom tiara - perhaps dusty



• a picture of a 'mother' prom queen



• perhaps some sort of weapon- knife or hammer

Casting

We have decided to simply use ourselves as the main cast as this will make our lives alot easier as we wont have to rely on others to turn up and we will be able to do our own make up etc. we also wont have to rely on the availability of our actors.


we will also be using the best looking people in sixth form and taking pictures of them to include in our scrapbook which we will be doing close ups of.

We have recently been working on the storyboarding for our thriller opening, so are researching the conventional titles found at the beginning of a thriller (and the order that they appear). We have found that these 17 come up the most frequently...

01. Distributor
02. Producer
03. Director
04. Cast (main)
05. Title of movie
06. Cast (other)
07. Casting Director
08. Music/Composer
09. Costume Designer
10. Editor
11. Production Designer
12. Cinematography Manager
13. Exectuitive Producer
14. Writer
15. Producer
16. Director

We hope to keep to the same order in our opening titles, however we may make some changes depending on how we choose to edit these titles into our production.

Storyboard

This is our storyboard we have created originally. However some changes have been made as it they didnt seem to work, as it encountered problems with the lighting, weather, timing as we wanted to shoot the outside footage in the dark but the days got longer so we were unfortunatley unable to do this. However from our final product i think the changes we hve made has made our opening more effective and created a tense atmoshphere fitting in with the conventions of the thriller genre.

Thriller Treatment: BDD

From our research, we have established that thrillers are mainly watched by white females aged between 16 - 20, so we decided to attract this audience by basing our story on something that this target are typically interested in...prom night. Below is our treatment for 'BDD':

The movie is set in a schools prom night. Before anything else we see our prom queen lying in the rain with a knife through her stomach the camera backs away and we fade into a shot hours before. We at first see a girl (Belle) walking the opposite way of two girls in fancy prom gowns in a hall way. We then see the girl dressed in black reach for a door with dirty, bloody hands. The girl is then seen develpoing images of dead girls, and then getting ready (putting on a prom dress). She puts on her makeup carelessly as she drops several items, leaving red and black puddles and stains on the floor- these will create the credits by diforming into letters and words.

The film will include flashbacks of Belle's life and how she came to be the way she it but the entire film should be taking place withing the 3 hours of prom. Belle feels ambivalent to her mother, as she has always been a beauty queen, and never accepted that Belle doesnt want to follow in her mothers footsteps. her mothers pushy attitude leaves Belle with bitter memorys of her chilhood and her mother who died when she was 14, the police where never able to work out the cause of death.

As the film continues we are given and insight into emilys past and why she is the way she is but as the audience start attaching to Belle she begins planning her next killing; just when she had it good, she has to kill again, on prom night. Its a girly chick flick turned twisted as we find out all the bitter reasons Belle cant stop killing. The title is a play on words, it is the initials of her name (Belle Darcy Darrington) and also of a ocd condition (Body Dysmorphic Disorder).

Brainstorm ideas

How did you attract/address your audience? on Prezi

Our Priliminary Task

We did this in class and it was a group effort. We decided to focus less on what we included and more on the detail, for example we focused more on cutting by practising shot reverse shot cut. Particularly at the door handle where the main character opened the door in the corridor and the shot changed to her opening the door in the classroom with accurate continuity.

We also used the rule of 180 which is when two characters are having a conversation you have to stay on one side of the line we exercised this at the point when the student and teacher are talking about her attendance.

We used shots like over-the-shoulder shots and close up to show different perspectives. We also included a zoom at the end which despite being unconventional and uncommonly used by most good film makers but we used it to focus on our characters expressions and emotions. This was also put in to lighten the mood and make it more of a funny thing for the audience to watch. this was just the preliminary task and we wont be making our actual one a comedy although it is possible it might have some funny moments in it.

In the end we like our preliminary although the acting is questionable the editing was good and we were pleased with how it turned out. It also gave us a great trial for when we are filming our real because it helped us manage our time and think about all the things that need to be included.