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.