Wednesday, 29 December 2010
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Production Schedule
Title: Malice
Students: Hannah Smith, Daniel Orr, Sam Taylor, Alex Roughsedge
Date Production Started: 1st November 2010
Treatment Started: 15th November 2010
Shooting Started: 12th December 2010
Rough Cut Submitted: 15th December 2010
Final Tape Completed By: January 2011
Equipment required:Camera, Tripod, Battery, Tape, Track, Jib
Transport required:
Car / Bus
Actors: Janet Orr, Alex Orr, Nigel Orr.
Props: Briefcase, phone, paper, passports, money, letters.
Students: Hannah Smith, Daniel Orr, Sam Taylor, Alex Roughsedge
Date Production Started: 1st November 2010
Treatment Started: 15th November 2010
Shooting Started: 12th December 2010
Rough Cut Submitted: 15th December 2010
Final Tape Completed By: January 2011
Equipment required:Camera, Tripod, Battery, Tape, Track, Jib
Transport required:
Car / Bus
Actors: Janet Orr, Alex Orr, Nigel Orr.
Props: Briefcase, phone, paper, passports, money, letters.
Friday, 10 December 2010
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Friday, 3 December 2010
Shot List for Thriller.
Shot list
1) Long pan of street
2) Mid pan of car into drive
3) Extreme long shot of street
4) Medium shot of door, man walks to door
5) Low shot – Man walking to door
6) Low shot – man putting key into door
7) Big close up – Twisting key in lock
8) Extreme close up – key turning in lock
9) Low mid shot – man opening door
10) Long shot – of man entering house
11) Mid shot of man shutting the door
12) Mid shot of door slamming shut
13) Extreme close up – worms eye – feet on door mat
14) Mid tilted shot – mans face listening –looking upstairs
15) High shot – mans face looking up, listening , Laughing can be heard
16) Medium close up – of man looking down
17) Extreme close up of hand placing briefcase down
18) Point of view shot – tracking shot of someone slowly entering the house
19) Panning shot of house – looking at house
20) Titled shot – Focuses in on window
21) Low angle shot – man quietly approaching table
22) High angle close up – items (wallet, keys)
23) Low medium long shot – stranger clears table – turns towards stairs
24) Worms eye medium shot – Man taking first step on stairs
25) Extreme close up (canted shot) of foot on first step
26) Point of view – Running towards door
27) Close up – Another shot of foot on step
28) Point of view – Sneaking out of shadows towards door
29) Close up – Getting nearer to the top (Canted in different angle)
30) Point of view –Different stranger reaching doorstep and looking around
31) Canted medium close up – Reaching top of stairs
32) Outside – Point of view – looking into window & around frantically
33) Canted Close Up- Nigel creeping from top of stairs to door
34) Close-Up – Nigel pressing ears against door listening to laughing.
35) Close Up – Nigel’s hand going towards handle slowly
36) Big Close Up – Nigel’s hand grasping handle
37) Medium Shot – Door opening slightly inside bedroom
38) Medium Show (Low shot) – Door swinging open from inside , man looking at floor
39) Point of View – Discarded clothes on the floor
40) Point of view from outside- Strangers hands (wearing leather gloves) press against door and grab handle.
41) Low close up of front door coming a jar
42) Point of view shot
43) Extreme close up
44) Extreme close up
45) Point of view
46) Big close up
47) Point of view
48) Low close up
49) Tracking shot
50) Over the shoulder shot
51) High Mid Shot
52) Close Up
53) Shot reverse shot (close up)
54) Extreme Close Up (canted)
55) Point of View
56) Big Close up
57) Point of View
58) Big Close up
59) Point of View
60) Big Close Up
61) Point of View
62) Big Close up
63) Point of View
64) Low Mid Shot
65) Eye level Mid Shot
66) Point of view
67) Low canted mid shot
68) Point of View
69) Over the Shoulder shot
70) Eye level mid shot
71) Medium Close Up
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Character outline for Thriller
To help us understand the characters featured in the opening of our thriller, we wrote down a breif description of their personalities. This helps us to understand the characters better and how they would act or move in our thriller opening.
Characters
Nigel Taylor
Nigel Taylor is an intelligent and work committed man. He is 48 years old. He is so dedicated to his work that he is rarely seen without a shirt and tie on. Although he is relaxed and laid back at work, at home he is hot headed and short tempered due to his frustration with his wife. Nigel’s one release from the stresses of day to day life is fishing as he enjoys being alone in the outdoors in the peace and quiet.
Janet Taylor
Janet Taylor is 44 years old, outgoing and somewhat louder that her introvert husband, Nigel. Janet doesn’t have a job and is perfectly happy staying at home and taking care of her husband and children – even if they don’t always appreciate it. Janet can sometimes be ignorant to things going on around her and is often referred to as ditsy, although in her head she knows what she is doing and everything that goes on, she chooses to ignore a majority of it. 
Alice Taylor
Alice Taylor is 16 years old and has been horse riding since the age of five. Alice is quiet, polite and friendly although she is scared of getting too close to anyone. Alice doesn’t trust anyone and comes across as a shy and neurotic young girl because of this. Alice doesn’t trust anyone because she is scared the dark thoughts in her head will somehow get out and ruin her plans. Alice keeps herself to herself, much like her father and avoids confrontation at any cost.
Treatment for Thriller film
Synopsis:Nigel keeps finding Janet acting suspiciously and plans to get rid of her. In in the meantime, in their everyday day lives, strange and dangerous things keep occuring which raises tension between the two. As their relationship falls apart, how will their two teenage children cope, and what is the source of these attacks?
Treatment:
At the beginning, Nigel is shown returning home in his car. A long panning shot shows his car driving up to his house and parking up. A tracking shot shows him as he slowly approaches the front door, and an extreme close up is used to show him opening the door by turning the key. Upon entering the house his face is focused on with a close up as he hears Janet laughing upstairs with another voice - at which point a shot is shown looking up the stairs. Janet is shown laughing in her bedroom but most of the shot is concealed to keep the owner of the other voice concealed. Assuming that she is up there with another man, a close up again shows Nigel's face as he becomes enraged. He is shown moving to lock the door with an extreme close up of the lock again but choosing not to lock it, so to not make much sound. He is then shown sneaking upstairs quietly with a tracking shot whilst Janet's laughing gets louder to show that he is getting closer. He approaches the bedroom door stealthily with a mid shot and bursts into the room in an attempt to surprise Janet. As he bursts in a mid shot is shown from inside the bedroom as he enters, and Janet's shocked face is shown with a close up. Janet is shown to actually just be on the phone with a mid shot that shows her lying on the bed, and a close up of the phone is shown as the person on the other end asks her what has happened and as she ends the call. She is seen trying to hide something with a mid shot - a photograph or letter that she hides in her bedside table - and she acts suspiciously. A mystery character is then shown looking upwards at the house from outside, seeing Janet and Nigel arguing in the bedroom. They enter through the unlocked door, the lock again shown with an extreme close up. This unknown character is never seen and point of view shots are used to track their movements. They are shown entering the house and looking around before sneaking about, going through letters and Nigel's wallet. Nigel and Janet are then shown arguing with a low shot which creates the impression that they are being observed before the shot switches back to the mystery character still sneaking about. They accidentally knock a glass of a table and it smashes on the floor it makes a loud noise, so they panic and are shown hurridly heading for the exit. The noise is heard upstairs and Janet and Nigel stop arguing instantly, and a shot reverse shot shows them questioning the mystery noise from downstairs to each other before they rush out of the bedroom, again showed by a low shot. The mystery character downstairs is shown running towards the door and swinging the door, and an over the shoulder view of Janet and Nigel shows them seeing the door slam shut from the top of the stairs. The opening sequence will end here. The rest of the opening of the film will consist of the man in pursuit of the mystery character and the man and women arguing about their relationship issues and wondering who entered their house uninvited.
In the middle of the film Janet will continue to be caught acting suspiciously by her husband and children (one boy, Paul, 19 and one girl, Lizzie, 16), and Nigel will be shown boiling up to a point that he starts plotting Janet's downfall whilst at the same time a mystery source is shown planning things also. In the meantime, strange occurrences will happen in the man and women's everyday life in which they narrowly avoid serious or fatal injuries on a number of occasions. On a night out the couple will be walking home and a shadowy figure will keep appearing in the distance that will be followed by another strange attack each time. When they return home they will begin to question how all these strange things are happening before Janet starts to accuse Nigel which triggers his rage and causes him to try to kill her, but as he attacks the house sets on fire without warning and they are both forced to escape. They are taken to hospital with their son Paul and learn that their daughter Lizzie perished in the fire, which Janet blames on Nigel. Upon their release from hospital the couple divorce and Janet tries to get Nigel blamed for the accident. Nigel goes to live with his brother whilst Janet goes to live with her mum with Paul, who soon reveals that he would rather move into a flat with his friend which raises suspicion of whether the fire was his doing or not. The couple are shown getting on with their lives, but are still under attack and more mysterious plotting is shown. Soon after, the home where Nigel is living also is set on fire - he just about escapes again but his brother's life is taken. When in hospital everyone - including his ex-wife Janet - come to visit him, apart from his son Paul which raises suspicion again that he created the fire. Paul's everyday life is then briefly shown for the first time and it is made clear that he is a very violent, threatening and aggressive character but also that he is the victim of some odd occurrences like his parents.
Some weeks later, at the memorial for the daughter lost in the first fire, a few artefacts that belonged to her and survived the fire or were not in the fire are on show as mementos of her tragically short life. Nigel and Janet mourn the death of Lizzie away from each other but meanwhile Paul has sneaked off with some of his sister's old possessions. He is shown studying them - it is not shown what he reads but he reacts to it, leaving the memorial without giving a reason which confuses his parents. Nigel follows him in his car, assuming the whole thing to be his fault. When he eventually catches up and confronts his son he attempts to choke him whilst Paul tries desperately tries to explain something. Just as Paul is about to pass out he manages to break free of Nigel's grasp and explains that his mother cannot be left unguarded as he found detailed plans to kill her in his sister's diary once she was unprotected, and that he had left the memorial to alert the police to create a trap for the killer. Nigel does not believe any of it and once again becomes enraged which results in a violent fist fight and Paul leaving his father unconscious in the road. Stealing his father's car he hurries back to where Janet is to find her lying on the floor surrounded by a few other mourners, almost dead. Upon asking how it happened Paul is led by the other mourners into a trap where he confronts his sister Lizzie, who is revealed to have created and escaped the fire. She reveals that Janet has only a few minutes to live due to the wounds she has sustained but if anybody alerted the police she would eventually kill them too. She then reveals plans to kill Paul and Nigel and just as she approaches Paul to stab him she is stopped by Nigel who engages her in a fierce battle which ends up with them both suffering severe wounds. Lizzie prepares to deliver the finishing blow when she is knocked unconscious by Paul. He then calls for ambulances for his parents and his sister. His parents recover fine but Lizzie dies on the way to hospital, and the films concludes with the family mourning their daughter's loss for the second time.
Treatment:
At the beginning, Nigel is shown returning home in his car. A long panning shot shows his car driving up to his house and parking up. A tracking shot shows him as he slowly approaches the front door, and an extreme close up is used to show him opening the door by turning the key. Upon entering the house his face is focused on with a close up as he hears Janet laughing upstairs with another voice - at which point a shot is shown looking up the stairs. Janet is shown laughing in her bedroom but most of the shot is concealed to keep the owner of the other voice concealed. Assuming that she is up there with another man, a close up again shows Nigel's face as he becomes enraged. He is shown moving to lock the door with an extreme close up of the lock again but choosing not to lock it, so to not make much sound. He is then shown sneaking upstairs quietly with a tracking shot whilst Janet's laughing gets louder to show that he is getting closer. He approaches the bedroom door stealthily with a mid shot and bursts into the room in an attempt to surprise Janet. As he bursts in a mid shot is shown from inside the bedroom as he enters, and Janet's shocked face is shown with a close up. Janet is shown to actually just be on the phone with a mid shot that shows her lying on the bed, and a close up of the phone is shown as the person on the other end asks her what has happened and as she ends the call. She is seen trying to hide something with a mid shot - a photograph or letter that she hides in her bedside table - and she acts suspiciously. A mystery character is then shown looking upwards at the house from outside, seeing Janet and Nigel arguing in the bedroom. They enter through the unlocked door, the lock again shown with an extreme close up. This unknown character is never seen and point of view shots are used to track their movements. They are shown entering the house and looking around before sneaking about, going through letters and Nigel's wallet. Nigel and Janet are then shown arguing with a low shot which creates the impression that they are being observed before the shot switches back to the mystery character still sneaking about. They accidentally knock a glass of a table and it smashes on the floor it makes a loud noise, so they panic and are shown hurridly heading for the exit. The noise is heard upstairs and Janet and Nigel stop arguing instantly, and a shot reverse shot shows them questioning the mystery noise from downstairs to each other before they rush out of the bedroom, again showed by a low shot. The mystery character downstairs is shown running towards the door and swinging the door, and an over the shoulder view of Janet and Nigel shows them seeing the door slam shut from the top of the stairs. The opening sequence will end here. The rest of the opening of the film will consist of the man in pursuit of the mystery character and the man and women arguing about their relationship issues and wondering who entered their house uninvited.
In the middle of the film Janet will continue to be caught acting suspiciously by her husband and children (one boy, Paul, 19 and one girl, Lizzie, 16), and Nigel will be shown boiling up to a point that he starts plotting Janet's downfall whilst at the same time a mystery source is shown planning things also. In the meantime, strange occurrences will happen in the man and women's everyday life in which they narrowly avoid serious or fatal injuries on a number of occasions. On a night out the couple will be walking home and a shadowy figure will keep appearing in the distance that will be followed by another strange attack each time. When they return home they will begin to question how all these strange things are happening before Janet starts to accuse Nigel which triggers his rage and causes him to try to kill her, but as he attacks the house sets on fire without warning and they are both forced to escape. They are taken to hospital with their son Paul and learn that their daughter Lizzie perished in the fire, which Janet blames on Nigel. Upon their release from hospital the couple divorce and Janet tries to get Nigel blamed for the accident. Nigel goes to live with his brother whilst Janet goes to live with her mum with Paul, who soon reveals that he would rather move into a flat with his friend which raises suspicion of whether the fire was his doing or not. The couple are shown getting on with their lives, but are still under attack and more mysterious plotting is shown. Soon after, the home where Nigel is living also is set on fire - he just about escapes again but his brother's life is taken. When in hospital everyone - including his ex-wife Janet - come to visit him, apart from his son Paul which raises suspicion again that he created the fire. Paul's everyday life is then briefly shown for the first time and it is made clear that he is a very violent, threatening and aggressive character but also that he is the victim of some odd occurrences like his parents.
Some weeks later, at the memorial for the daughter lost in the first fire, a few artefacts that belonged to her and survived the fire or were not in the fire are on show as mementos of her tragically short life. Nigel and Janet mourn the death of Lizzie away from each other but meanwhile Paul has sneaked off with some of his sister's old possessions. He is shown studying them - it is not shown what he reads but he reacts to it, leaving the memorial without giving a reason which confuses his parents. Nigel follows him in his car, assuming the whole thing to be his fault. When he eventually catches up and confronts his son he attempts to choke him whilst Paul tries desperately tries to explain something. Just as Paul is about to pass out he manages to break free of Nigel's grasp and explains that his mother cannot be left unguarded as he found detailed plans to kill her in his sister's diary once she was unprotected, and that he had left the memorial to alert the police to create a trap for the killer. Nigel does not believe any of it and once again becomes enraged which results in a violent fist fight and Paul leaving his father unconscious in the road. Stealing his father's car he hurries back to where Janet is to find her lying on the floor surrounded by a few other mourners, almost dead. Upon asking how it happened Paul is led by the other mourners into a trap where he confronts his sister Lizzie, who is revealed to have created and escaped the fire. She reveals that Janet has only a few minutes to live due to the wounds she has sustained but if anybody alerted the police she would eventually kill them too. She then reveals plans to kill Paul and Nigel and just as she approaches Paul to stab him she is stopped by Nigel who engages her in a fierce battle which ends up with them both suffering severe wounds. Lizzie prepares to deliver the finishing blow when she is knocked unconscious by Paul. He then calls for ambulances for his parents and his sister. His parents recover fine but Lizzie dies on the way to hospital, and the films concludes with the family mourning their daughter's loss for the second time.
Evaluation of Questionnaire Reults
After recieving the results for our questionnnaire, we created a graph for each question which would help us to understand what choice was picked the most and which was picked the least. We then evaluated each question's main answer and explained how we would incorporate them into our Thriller opening.
21 people chose rock and metal as the most appropriate music genre for a thriller. We will therefore use rock or metal in our thriller opening.
What is your favourite colour?
1. Are you male or female
2. How old are you
3. Most popular thriller film
4. Favourite genre
5. Best genre for thriller
The winner for these were:
1. Males
2. 15-25 year olds
3. Se7en
4. Rock
5. Classical/metal
Gender of People who filled in the questionnaire
The result of this question means that more males were asked than females.
Favourite thriller film
The favourite thriller film of the people we asked was Se7en this is shows us which film we should take inspiration from.
Ages of the people who filled in the questionnaire
The ages of people we asked are quite varied, this means our 15 certified film will be suitable for everyone we asked.
Favourite Genre of Music
The favourite genre of music was classical, this is unusual as the highest age range was 15-25. Due to this result we will try to incorporate classical music into our thriller opening.
Most appropriate music genre for a Thriller
21 people chose rock and metal as the most appropriate music genre for a thriller. We will therefore use rock or metal in our thriller opening.
What is your favourite colour?
Red was the most popular colour with black as the second most popular colour. Therefore we will try to incorporate red and black into our graphics and main theme colours.
What scares you most?
People were more frightened by spiders than anything else on the list. We will try to use spiders in our thriller or things associated with spiders as we know these scare people the most.
What time of day do you think is most suitable for the setting of a thriller?
People thought that the best time of day to film a thriller was at night so we will film our opening at night.
Do you prefer the narrative to be slow or fast paced?
30 people thought that the narrative should be fast paced compared to slow paced therefore we will use a fast paced narrative in our thriller.
What location do you think is most suitable for a thriller?
The Majority of people think that the thriller should be shot in a house because they can relate to the layout of the house because of the results of the questionnaire, our thriller will now be set in a house.
What font is most suitable?
People chose a simple font because they thought it was clear and easy to read
Would you prefer a thriller title to be short and simple or long and detailed?
What scares you most?
People were more frightened by spiders than anything else on the list. We will try to use spiders in our thriller or things associated with spiders as we know these scare people the most.
What time of day do you think is most suitable for the setting of a thriller?
People thought that the best time of day to film a thriller was at night so we will film our opening at night.
Do you prefer the narrative to be slow or fast paced?
30 people thought that the narrative should be fast paced compared to slow paced therefore we will use a fast paced narrative in our thriller.
What location do you think is most suitable for a thriller?
The Majority of people think that the thriller should be shot in a house because they can relate to the layout of the house because of the results of the questionnaire, our thriller will now be set in a house.
What font is most suitable?
People chose a simple font because they thought it was clear and easy to read
Would you prefer a thriller title to be short and simple or long and detailed?
People preferred a short film title as they wanted an opening to be simple and not too confusing for the first few minutes of a thriller we will now have a short film title.
What is your least favourite thriller?
People chose Jaws as their least favourite thriller because it was the oldest thriller out of the four choices and people wanted something more modern. We will keep the theme of our thriller opening modern.
Should the editing be fast or slow paced, and why?
People chose fast paced editing as they thought it was more in keeping with their idea of a thriller film. Our thriller opening will have fast paced editing.
Would you rather characters remain concealed during the opening or not?
People asked preferred the characters to remain concealed during the opening scenes because they said it created more tensions and they liked the mystery. We had already planned to use one of more concealed characters in our opening.
Would you prefer the narrative of a thriller to be linear or non-linear?
Linear narrowly beat non-linear in terms of votes, which suggests that the target audience does not have a real preference but it may be better to use a linear opening as it would flow better and be easier to understand.
What of the following scares you least?
Clocks and footsteps were chosen as the least scary things as they are things that are quite normal and heard in everyday life all the time. As a result it may be better for us to avoid focusing on including these sound effects and use other means of scaring the audience.
What is your least favourite colour?
Yellow and purple were chosen as the least favourite colours due to them not being very suitable for a thriller film. We will make sure that we do not use these colour in our thriller as a result.
Do sound effects have a positive impact on the atmosphere of a thriller?
Nearly all people decided that sound effects do have a positive impact on a thriller’s atmosphere, so we will be sure to include them in our film as it will please our target audience and make our thriller’s atmosphere more tense and realistic.
Would you prefer low-key or high-key lighting in a thriller?
Low-key lighting more popular that high-key as it creates a better mood and atmosphere and makes the thriller seem tenser. We will be sure to use low-key lighting in our thriller.
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