This is our completed storyboard (notes with illustrations) in an animatic style:
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Animatic - Alice [Just Pictures]
As my group kept changing our Thriller idea we didnt have time to produce a storyboard to follow when we began filming. However myself and Samantha drew up one afterwards to show how we saw our thriller when it was constructed.
Questionnaire - Results
We gave our questionnaire to 20 people. The results are shown in the brackets below next to the choices.
1) Gender?
Male (10) Female (10)
2) How old are you?
11-14 15-18 (18) 19-23 24-27 28+ (2)
3) What appeals to you the most in a Thriller
The soundtrack (6) The cast (11) Director Plot (3) Others
Please state..................
4) What is your favourite sub-genre in a Thriller
Horror (12) Psychological (6) Action (2) Crime Sci-fi Others
Please state.......................
5) What was the last Thriller you watched?
The most common result was "Final Destination" with 4 results.
6) What mark would you give it (out of 10)? if the number is high, what exactly appealed to you
if the number is low, would could have been better?
On average, the viewers gave "Final Destination" 8/10. They enjoyed the action and the plot.
7) Who do you focus more on when watching a Thriller
The Protagonist (6) The Antagonist (14)
8) What do you find predictable/irritating when you watch any thriller?
Deaths (17) How the Antagonist is presented (3)
1) Gender?
Male (10) Female (10)
2) How old are you?
11-14 15-18 (18) 19-23 24-27 28+ (2)
3) What appeals to you the most in a Thriller
The soundtrack (6) The cast (11) Director Plot (3) Others
Please state..................
4) What is your favourite sub-genre in a Thriller
Horror (12) Psychological (6) Action (2) Crime Sci-fi Others
Please state.......................
5) What was the last Thriller you watched?
The most common result was "Final Destination" with 4 results.
6) What mark would you give it (out of 10)? if the number is high, what exactly appealed to you
if the number is low, would could have been better?
On average, the viewers gave "Final Destination" 8/10. They enjoyed the action and the plot.
7) Who do you focus more on when watching a Thriller
The Protagonist (6) The Antagonist (14)
8) What do you find predictable/irritating when you watch any thriller?
Deaths (17) How the Antagonist is presented (3)
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Final Piece- ALICE!
My group has finally, successfully,finished our Thriller. All we needed to do was to add more effects, credits and music (which was made by our friend, Ernest, who fully agreed into helping us with it). There didn't seem to any technical problems and the finished results seem satisfactory.
We came up with calling our Thriller "Alice", from "Alice in Wonderland" because of it's weird and wonderful contruction and it being a little girl's name which represents Samantha.
We also came up with other names before all mutually agreeing on this one. The lists of names were:
:- Emily
:- Candy
:- Carrie
:- Daisy
:- Sally
:- Alice
:- Sarah
:- Zahara
:- Lacy
:- Polly
When we chose the name for our piece, Samantha came up with the idea that she should say the name as a voice over when it appears on screen in a child like manner to create it a creepy atmosphere to the audience.
Here it is: Alice!!!!
We came up with calling our Thriller "Alice", from "Alice in Wonderland" because of it's weird and wonderful contruction and it being a little girl's name which represents Samantha.
We also came up with other names before all mutually agreeing on this one. The lists of names were:
:- Emily
:- Candy
:- Carrie
:- Daisy
:- Sally
:- Alice
:- Sarah
:- Zahara
:- Lacy
:- Polly
When we chose the name for our piece, Samantha came up with the idea that she should say the name as a voice over when it appears on screen in a child like manner to create it a creepy atmosphere to the audience.
Here it is: Alice!!!!
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Editing sessions
22nd April-
Myself and Samantha went after school to start editing our Thriller. We began to crop it but it wasnt going very well.; everytime we would cut a certain clip; the section we intended to keep was something totally different from what we had expected. It then started making copies of this unwanted footage. We asked our teacher for his advice and he thought it may be because we imported large amounts of the footage which was confusing the system and therefore muddling up our clips. He then suggested we start again but this time spliting a whole clip at playhead and cutting the parts we didnt need. However it began to do the same thing with making unwanted clips and therefore we decided to give up for that day and re-start it in our media lesson.
23rd April-
Myself, Samantha and Neelam continued editing and at first it was working fine and manage to edit some footage however after a while we encountered the same problems. We spent most of the double period lesson attempting to solve the problems and cropping as much as we could. We didnt manage to crop them all nor put them in order yet.
25th April-
Neelam didn't attend our media lesson today so myself and Samantha continued to edit ourselves. We cropped the rest of our clips by splitting them at playhead and it finally worked and we wasn't delayed by any problems. Once we completed the cutting what we didnt want, we began arranging the clips in order of what the audience will see but we didt manage to finish this.
Weekend-
Over the weekend myself and Samantha decided to talk about what genre of music we should use for our thriller but due to our busy schedules only had time to discuss this over the phone. Samantha did the research whilst i listened and we gave our verdict on the music she found. We found 3 non-copyright sounds that we may use which we agreed would suit our piece very well. When we have finished the editing which should hopefully be finished by Wednesday at the most we will then fit each of our tested music to our finished thriller and see which one suits the best. Hopefully we shouldnt encounter any more technical problems!!!
Myself and Samantha went after school to start editing our Thriller. We began to crop it but it wasnt going very well.; everytime we would cut a certain clip; the section we intended to keep was something totally different from what we had expected. It then started making copies of this unwanted footage. We asked our teacher for his advice and he thought it may be because we imported large amounts of the footage which was confusing the system and therefore muddling up our clips. He then suggested we start again but this time spliting a whole clip at playhead and cutting the parts we didnt need. However it began to do the same thing with making unwanted clips and therefore we decided to give up for that day and re-start it in our media lesson.
23rd April-
Myself, Samantha and Neelam continued editing and at first it was working fine and manage to edit some footage however after a while we encountered the same problems. We spent most of the double period lesson attempting to solve the problems and cropping as much as we could. We didnt manage to crop them all nor put them in order yet.
25th April-
Neelam didn't attend our media lesson today so myself and Samantha continued to edit ourselves. We cropped the rest of our clips by splitting them at playhead and it finally worked and we wasn't delayed by any problems. Once we completed the cutting what we didnt want, we began arranging the clips in order of what the audience will see but we didt manage to finish this.
Weekend-
Over the weekend myself and Samantha decided to talk about what genre of music we should use for our thriller but due to our busy schedules only had time to discuss this over the phone. Samantha did the research whilst i listened and we gave our verdict on the music she found. We found 3 non-copyright sounds that we may use which we agreed would suit our piece very well. When we have finished the editing which should hopefully be finished by Wednesday at the most we will then fit each of our tested music to our finished thriller and see which one suits the best. Hopefully we shouldnt encounter any more technical problems!!!
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
16th- 19th April
16th April-
Myself, Neelam and Samantha met up to discuss what idea would be possible to do after finding difficulties with settings and our main character. We knew we had to begin filming soon before we return to school but due to our busy schedules we havent found any space to film where we were all avaliable.
In the mean time however we discussed a new idea which included keeping a male main character with a psychological disorder however we changed the settings from indoors to outdoors this time. We came up with a variety of easily accessible settings and finally agreed on Hainault Forest.
Storyline: Basically our main character will be attacking a woman. It will begin with him digging a hole and then several flash backs to show the process of this victims attack. The process should go this:
-Pulling womans hair and her turning around lookng shocked (long shot and close up)
-Back to present where man is digging hole
-slaps mans face, he lets her go and she tries to run but falls to the ground (midshots and close ups)
-Present: man laughing whilst digging hole(low angled)
(Graphic match-man laughing in present and flash back)
-Back to flashback of woman crawling around looking for something to throw( long shot). maybe an alcohol bottle??)
-Throws object at man which fades back to him digging hole; his face in angry this time and the blood on his face is more visible this time. (extreme close up)
-Last flashback- man hitting up object woman threw and hitting her with it. (long shot)
-Present- a hand is coming out of the mud and twitching slightly.
A photo of the woman is thrown on to of this "grave".
We have not decided exactly on the camera shots nor the music just yet.
19th April-
As this day was the last day of the Easter Holidays myself and Samantha really wanted to start filming our thriller. However neelam was busy so we just decided to record something anyway for the mean time then get Neelams advice on it afterwards.
We chose another idea from the top of our heads but it was a mixture from our previous old ones as we couldnt go along with the 16th April idea as no male main character were avaliable. Therefore we decided to do it in my house with Samantha as the main character. We used a variety of different shots and used a long mirror which should come up as a really good effect. We used high shots, low shots, close ups, mid shots, extreme close ups..etc. Near the end we attempted to do a sillouette shot however it was getting very dark and as we wanted to look like it was at night we couldnt add any light anywhere. Hopefully it will come up as visible when we edit it.
Our idea was basically a variety of shots (like se7en) of a girl sleeping in her bedroom at night and cuddling her china doll. She seems distressed at something she is dreaming of and suddenly sits up with the lights flickering like a thunder is outside. The next shot is of her in front of her mirror and in her reflection is of herself but with smeared make up on like her china doll.
Myself and Samantha took it in turns to use the camera and worked together to decide where it should be positioned and how to set the scene. I think if we edit it really well it can be an exellent piece. However, we need to show Neelam and see what she thinks of it too.We want to go back to the idea havin a series of shots like Se7en. Our piece makes sense but doesn't. It has that effect of confusin so the audience wants to carry on watching it to see what the dolls have to do with the little girl and why her reflection is different to her normal self. Hopefully we should not experiance problems with the continuity and it will link and look very psycological.We have not discussed the music yet as we will need to edit it to see what kind of piece will suit it.
Myself, Neelam and Samantha met up to discuss what idea would be possible to do after finding difficulties with settings and our main character. We knew we had to begin filming soon before we return to school but due to our busy schedules we havent found any space to film where we were all avaliable.
In the mean time however we discussed a new idea which included keeping a male main character with a psychological disorder however we changed the settings from indoors to outdoors this time. We came up with a variety of easily accessible settings and finally agreed on Hainault Forest.
Storyline: Basically our main character will be attacking a woman. It will begin with him digging a hole and then several flash backs to show the process of this victims attack. The process should go this:
-Pulling womans hair and her turning around lookng shocked (long shot and close up)
-Back to present where man is digging hole
-slaps mans face, he lets her go and she tries to run but falls to the ground (midshots and close ups)
-Present: man laughing whilst digging hole(low angled)
(Graphic match-man laughing in present and flash back)
-Back to flashback of woman crawling around looking for something to throw( long shot). maybe an alcohol bottle??)
-Throws object at man which fades back to him digging hole; his face in angry this time and the blood on his face is more visible this time. (extreme close up)
-Last flashback- man hitting up object woman threw and hitting her with it. (long shot)
-Present- a hand is coming out of the mud and twitching slightly.
A photo of the woman is thrown on to of this "grave".
We have not decided exactly on the camera shots nor the music just yet.
19th April-
As this day was the last day of the Easter Holidays myself and Samantha really wanted to start filming our thriller. However neelam was busy so we just decided to record something anyway for the mean time then get Neelams advice on it afterwards.
We chose another idea from the top of our heads but it was a mixture from our previous old ones as we couldnt go along with the 16th April idea as no male main character were avaliable. Therefore we decided to do it in my house with Samantha as the main character. We used a variety of different shots and used a long mirror which should come up as a really good effect. We used high shots, low shots, close ups, mid shots, extreme close ups..etc. Near the end we attempted to do a sillouette shot however it was getting very dark and as we wanted to look like it was at night we couldnt add any light anywhere. Hopefully it will come up as visible when we edit it.
Our idea was basically a variety of shots (like se7en) of a girl sleeping in her bedroom at night and cuddling her china doll. She seems distressed at something she is dreaming of and suddenly sits up with the lights flickering like a thunder is outside. The next shot is of her in front of her mirror and in her reflection is of herself but with smeared make up on like her china doll.
Myself and Samantha took it in turns to use the camera and worked together to decide where it should be positioned and how to set the scene. I think if we edit it really well it can be an exellent piece. However, we need to show Neelam and see what she thinks of it too.We want to go back to the idea havin a series of shots like Se7en. Our piece makes sense but doesn't. It has that effect of confusin so the audience wants to carry on watching it to see what the dolls have to do with the little girl and why her reflection is different to her normal self. Hopefully we should not experiance problems with the continuity and it will link and look very psycological.We have not discussed the music yet as we will need to edit it to see what kind of piece will suit it.
Thursday, 16 April 2009
Update on filming ideas
This afternoon our group has arranged to begin filming however due to not being able to find a suitable indoors setting; we are counting on doing it in an secluded area outside. There are two major problems that we discovered:
1) what if it rains?
2)would the setting upset our previous idea
Therefore last night myself and Samantha spoke of a new idea which has sorted the problem with our setting and the issue of props. It should hopefully make sense to our audience as well. We need to speak this over with Neelam before we can make it official.
I will update our idea and say what exactly it is when we are all completely satisfied with it!!!
1) what if it rains?
2)would the setting upset our previous idea
Therefore last night myself and Samantha spoke of a new idea which has sorted the problem with our setting and the issue of props. It should hopefully make sense to our audience as well. We need to speak this over with Neelam before we can make it official.
I will update our idea and say what exactly it is when we are all completely satisfied with it!!!
Friday, 10 April 2009
update on filming/ Draft of Questionnaire
Our plans for filming our Thriller has been pushed back until next week due to finding some difficulties concerning our main character and the setting. Our intended character decided not to take part so we it's taking some time in replacing him. For now, we've scheduled the filming day for Thursday which we are all hopefully free for unless something comes up for one of us to be busy.
In the mean time we are getting our props ready, finalising our storyboard which should be uploaded too by next week and finding an appropiate place to film.
This is a draf on a Questionnaire I did; Samantha overlooked it and was satisfied with the questions. We may add or change some questions but for now here it is:
1) Gender?
Male Female
2) How old are you?
11-14 15-18 19-23 24-27 28+
3) What appeals to you the most in a Thriller
The soundtrack The cast Director Plot Others
Please state..................
4) What is your favourite sub-genre in a Thriller
Horror Psychological Action Crime Sci-fi Others
Please state.......................
5) What was the last Thriller you watched?
6) What mark would you give it (out of 10)? if the number is high, what exactly appealed to you
if the number is low, would could have been better?
7) Who do you focus more on when watching a Thriller
The Protagonist The Antagonist
8) What do you find predictable/irritating when you watch any thriller?
In the mean time we are getting our props ready, finalising our storyboard which should be uploaded too by next week and finding an appropiate place to film.
This is a draf on a Questionnaire I did; Samantha overlooked it and was satisfied with the questions. We may add or change some questions but for now here it is:
1) Gender?
Male Female
2) How old are you?
11-14 15-18 19-23 24-27 28+
3) What appeals to you the most in a Thriller
The soundtrack The cast Director Plot Others
Please state..................
4) What is your favourite sub-genre in a Thriller
Horror Psychological Action Crime Sci-fi Others
Please state.......................
5) What was the last Thriller you watched?
6) What mark would you give it (out of 10)? if the number is high, what exactly appealed to you
if the number is low, would could have been better?
7) Who do you focus more on when watching a Thriller
The Protagonist The Antagonist
8) What do you find predictable/irritating when you watch any thriller?
Thursday, 2 April 2009
1st meeting for our new Thriller Idea
On Wednesday , Neelam wasn't in however myself and Samantha still went forward with beginning our storyboard to create a new Thriller. We kept ideas that came from our original one such as using a variety of different shots like the opening of "Se7en" and someone having a psychological disorder but changed the fact that they're on drugs when they are on their "killing spree's".
Instead we drew up a very simple story line which hopefully will make sense to our audience depending on how we re-arrange our shots.
Storyline:
Our idea was inspired by the film "Trainspotting"; although this isn't a thriller, we wanted to use some elements of the Mise en scene used in this. We liked the idea of the main character giving a list he needs to get off heroin. We began to thing of ideas related to this but decided not to use drugs. Our main character, will use item to represent his low status, class and intelligence such as eating cold beans clumsily. His surroundings will look run down,worn out and unhygeneic.
Our main character will live alone in the dark and will have psycological problems. The main prop we'll use is a yearbook which shows pictures of girls he fancied in his school days. Some pictures will have hearts around them whereas others will be scribbled out. There will also be flashes on light which shows pictures of girls, unbeknown to them, on his walls. This shows his obsession with these soon to be victims. As the camera concentrates of a certain picture of a girl, there will be a flashback of that girl in his place where she has just been killed by him. There will be several more flashbacks from different school pictures to them dead in different areas of his apartment. The flashbacks will represent the past which will go back to the present where the man is looking at the book.
We thought of many settings to film our thriller and came up with the idea of a shed. A shed is a very secretive place and is from the public's eye for them to witness women going in there or even suspect any murders happening. We also do not want to show all of the man's face to create alot of suspense.
There will be hardly any lighting except from the windows so when the man stands in front of them it will create a silouette effect. Our shots will vary but there will be alot of close ups. Also low angles can be used to make the man look powerful.
We have no decided on the type of background music to use yet. We need a good pace to match the speed of our opening so we need to choose the genre of music after we have edited our thriller.
Instead we drew up a very simple story line which hopefully will make sense to our audience depending on how we re-arrange our shots.
Storyline:
Our idea was inspired by the film "Trainspotting"; although this isn't a thriller, we wanted to use some elements of the Mise en scene used in this. We liked the idea of the main character giving a list he needs to get off heroin. We began to thing of ideas related to this but decided not to use drugs. Our main character, will use item to represent his low status, class and intelligence such as eating cold beans clumsily. His surroundings will look run down,worn out and unhygeneic.
Our main character will live alone in the dark and will have psycological problems. The main prop we'll use is a yearbook which shows pictures of girls he fancied in his school days. Some pictures will have hearts around them whereas others will be scribbled out. There will also be flashes on light which shows pictures of girls, unbeknown to them, on his walls. This shows his obsession with these soon to be victims. As the camera concentrates of a certain picture of a girl, there will be a flashback of that girl in his place where she has just been killed by him. There will be several more flashbacks from different school pictures to them dead in different areas of his apartment. The flashbacks will represent the past which will go back to the present where the man is looking at the book.
We thought of many settings to film our thriller and came up with the idea of a shed. A shed is a very secretive place and is from the public's eye for them to witness women going in there or even suspect any murders happening. We also do not want to show all of the man's face to create alot of suspense.
There will be hardly any lighting except from the windows so when the man stands in front of them it will create a silouette effect. Our shots will vary but there will be alot of close ups. Also low angles can be used to make the man look powerful.
We have no decided on the type of background music to use yet. We need a good pace to match the speed of our opening so we need to choose the genre of music after we have edited our thriller.
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