Final Product

Dis is da link:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9GGLCbknMk

Evaluation

Kitty

Overall Story Plan

In the beginning a girl is taken hostage and she questioned about a tape. She cries and doesn't reveal anything, until she is blackmailed with a picture of her son. It is implied that she is killed by her captor. The film then goes back in time showing the events of a previous week. At an office block in the city one of the interns in killed in the parking lot. There are lots of CCTV cameras around but when the police check the machines the tape that would have shown the killers face is missing. In the autopsy it is revealed she was raped. Then the girl from before is seen working there. It goes back to the hostage scenario and the girl in the beginning is still alive. She recognises the her captor, the daughter of the intern out to get justice for her daughter. The hostage then empathises with him and reluctantly reveals her boss has the tape and he committed the crime. The father figure then enacts revenge on the boss by sneaking in late at night and through a cleverly placed trap leaves him hanging by his ankles from the roof with the tape attached to his chest. He then calls the police and disappears into the night.

Kitty

Analysis of Another Media AS Proudction

Kitty

What is the Purpose and Form of Your First 2 Minutes of Your Movie?

MY BRAINSTORM

The purpose and form of my thriller is to create a thriller opening that will reveal a criminal character without giving away too much of the character. My aim of this is to create an opening scene that builds a sense of tension and an uneasy atmosphere similar to that of Ils. In this opening sequence, a girl and her mother are driving in the car, there is no music and only diegetic sound. The car breaks down and the mother puts the bonnet up, when the daughter goes to check on her, she has disappeared and the daughter gets strangled. The killer is not fully revealed and the main victim has too, not been revealed but the suspense and tension has been built. I am to do a similar thing in my opening sequence. I intend to do this by filming the majority of shots on the victim, specifically close ups to focus on her facial expressions and not necessarily the mise en scene. In my sequence, there will be a girl held captive in an attic pleading with her captor to let her leave. I believe that my mixture of obvious lighting and obscure camera shots will help me to convey and fulfil the conventions of the thriller genre  

Kitty

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

1)   How old are you? (circle the box that applies to you)

      -10     11-19     20-28     29-36     43+ 

2) What gender are you?

      Male    Female

             3) What is your favourite genre of film? (Circle as applicable to you)

Horror    Romance    Musical    Comedy    Action    Sci-Fi   

Documentary    Alternative

          4) In terms of thriller opening conventions, do you think that                                ‘The Captive’ fulfilled the standard of an established thriller opening? (If not, why?)

             Yes    No    

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             5) Do you think that the music was appropriate to the thriller    theme? (If not, why?)

            Yes    No

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           6) Did you think that our preliminary exercise: “The Messenger” was appropriate in regards to thriller openings? (If not, why?)

          Yes   No

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         7) What was one weakness of ‘The Captive’ as a whole production?

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       8) What was one strength of ‘The Captive’ as a whole production?

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       9) Do you think, overall, that ‘The Captive’ is effective as a thriller opening? Explain your answer.

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    10) Who would you recommend this film for? Why have you chosen this      answer?

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Here is a questionnaire me, Jamie and Taylan have created. Later on today we are going to hand them out. I think that we have created an appropriate amount of diverse questions to understand if we have successfully fulfilled our brief.

Kitty 

Filming

Last night, we filmed our AS thriller opening. I think that overall, it was successful. We got a range of shots that varied in lighting and originality. A few hours before filming, our original set plans fell through and we were unable to use the basement to film. Therefore we decided to film in my attic. I think that although this was not the original plan, it worked out well and was appropriately fitted to my scene. We decided to film the establishing shots torch lit as it created a sense of mystery and an eerie atmosphere. From studying previous thriller openings I had learned that a common convention was low-lighting to secure a sense of the unknown. One issue we faced was that, after filming, we realised the audio would sound misplaced and cut up as the microphone was attached to the camera during each individual shot. Because we had filmed from so many different angles. This meant that the audio would sound different from each different angel also. We decided to take the longest audio track and edit the shots over it. Below I have showed some screen grabs of the shots we made. I will start editing tomorrow. 

Kitty 

Panic Room Analysis

Here is an analysis of the opening for the thriller 'Panic Room'.

Kitty

Creep Analysis

Here is an analysis of the thriller opening of the film 'Creep'

Kitty

Filming the Preliminary

Yesterday we filmed our preliminary. I think that it went quite well. We experimented with lighting, shots and dialogue. I think that a strength of the preliminary was the editing, I think that we edited well with the shots we filmed. However, I think that a mistake we made was that we didn't experiment with shots enough, I think that this brought the film down because there was only so much we could do with the lack of creative shots. Another issue we faced was audio. When editing we realised that the sound of the dialogue had actually come out really badly, in the film it's hard to tell what the characters are saying. However, I think that a good thing that we did was add music, this added a lot more atmosphere to the sequence. I think we've learned that planning is very key. It's taught me that when we film the thriller, we should test the camera and sound and see how it comes out on the computer before we continue. Here is a link to our preliminary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy9HFJ8jHsk&feature=youtu.be

Kitty

Call Sheet

Call Sheet

Name	Email	Phone No.
Jamie	jimmatt@hotmail.co.uk	07952216845
Taylan	taylan100@hotmail.co.uk	07951984488
Kitty	kittygrew@gmail.com	07814759843

Props:

Wooden Chair

Rope

Leather Gloves

Cigar

Lighter

Smart Shoes

Matches

Sack

Gag

Location :

Stoke Newington School Theatre

Synopsis:

The opening revolves around a girl who has been taken hostage by a mysterious figure. The girl is tied to a wooden chair and illuminated by a pool of light. The kidnapper stays in the shadows never fully revealing himself. The back story is told by the girl as she pleads and reasons with the kidnapper.