Free Periods

We are getting closer to our deadline, so we need to be filming at any chance we get. We have put our free periods up on the blog so all group members have easy access to the times we are all free. As well as this, we have all exchanged emails and phone numbers incase of any late notice changes.

Character Profile

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Vlog 2 - lighting problems...

Locations

Today we spent our time scouting out out locations for our shots,

• outside for the death scene (near a tree)



• the walk to the dark room



• the principles office



• and the dark room
  

We found a great place to film the death, by the hedge with a tree on the right side of the shot, we wanted it to be either dark or rainy-it will be tricky to find a dark day as summer is approaching and the days are getting lighter for longer so we may have to go for just rain, we plan to evaluate this in the end however.
there are some great paths around the school where you can see the trees and yet still get the impression you are in a school, the only problem with this is that the school is having building work done which we would prefer not have in our shot and so we will have to work around that.
We spoke to our head teacher and she kindly agreed to let us film the stealing of the key from her office we are contemplating using her in the actual film.
We also spoke to the head of photography and he said he would set up the dark room to make it more realistic and he would put the blinds and turn up the red lights for us. the difficulty we may face then is that the room will be too dark to film in which means we will have to re-think our lighting in there. for us. the difficulty we mfilm in which means we will have to re-think our lighting in there.

Vlog 1 - location issues...

Opening Title Fonts

Earlier this month we had decided on the opening titles we would use in our opening credits, as when and where they would be positioned on screen, however we still havent chosen what font and colour these credits will be.

Because our films treatment is based upon a teenage girl who keeps a scrapbook, we have decided to focus our font search on text that reminds us of a teenage girls handwriting. We have seen the same technique used in the opening sequence for Seven (analysed previously) and really like the was something simple like text creates a weary atmosphere before the movie even starts. Here are a few fonts that we liked...

Our main character is one with more than one personality, so we have suggested maybe choosing one handwritten text from above and then placing a more spooky and scratch font behind it to show this split personality. Some backing texts we have chosen are below...

Title ideas

'Orphan', 'Se7en', 'The Birds'... the title of a thriller is one of the most important aspects of the movie. By grabbing the audience's attention with a intriguing and thought-provoking title, it entices the audience to want to know more about the movie (and hopefully go and watch the movie to find out more). Stereotypically, thriller titles (like the examples given above) are very vague and quizzical, so we have tried to make out title conventional and also apply these same characteristics.

As a group, we had a range of ideas for the name of our thriller, but couldn't decide on one idea. So, to help us choose, we created a questionnaire with our 3 favourite title ideas, and handed them out to members of the public who fit into our target audience. Here was the feedback we received...

BDD: This title was chosen as it is the initials of our main character - Bethany Daisy Dawson - and her mental illness - Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Overall, there was positive feedback from this title as our audience did say it intrigued them to want to know more about the movie. However, the feedback did tell us that our audience didn't like the title because 'it didn't flow'. They found that the 3 letters were awkward to say straight after each other.

Prom Night: As a group, we all really felt that this was the best title for our movie as it was short and sweet and to the point, but after further research we found that this title was copyrighted. Another movie already had this title, and is in the same sort of movie genre as ours (it is classed as a horror-thriller). Despite this, we still asked our target audience how they felt about the title, but (luckily) they didn't like the title as some of our male audience said they would be relctant to watch it as it sounds 'girly' to them.

A Night At The Dance: Out of all the title ideas, this one had the most positive feedback. Although we felt that the title was quite long, our audience said that it was perfect as it gave them insight to what the movie would be about, but not enough information to stop any curiosity for the movie. Because of this, we chose this as the title of our movie.