1st draft of film

This was our first draft for our film and as you can see we haven't got a lot as we didn't film enough before we went down the college for the first time, this was a good start to our project though and i'm happy with it to begin with.

getting permission to use the music

After commenting on YouTube videos and emailing the band 'Pavement' who produced the song, if we could be granted to use their music in our thriller, we haven't had a response from all of these options.

Storyboard final draft

Storyboard 1st draft

Here is our first draft for out film,

Choosing a name for our product

Today me and my group brainstormed a couple of ideas for our film. Below is some of the ideas that we came up with.


After discussing with our teacher we decided that 'close cut' is the best name for our film.

Script

In our media film there is no dialogue at all, we thought this might make the opening more sinister and spooky. We didn't produce a script for our film because we didn't have dialogue.

Group roles

To make our product successful we assigned roles so everyone new what they had to do, Oliver was the editor as he had experience and good knowledge of the programme, I was the director as i had a good idea in my head of ideas we could shoot and what the narrative could follow and Alex was the producer. Even though we have our individual roles we will all work on the storyboard and shot-list.

Shot list

Prop list

the Props we used are:

• cork board
• string
• pictures
• plastic bags
• pins
• scissors 
• glue
• phones
• hoodies

Title sequences

A title sequence is the way the by which television programmes or films present the title, production and the starring actors. it usually starts or includes the text of the opening credits, it helps establish the setting and tone of the program.

Examples:

Above is the title for 'The Hobbit'.the typography is iconic to 'the hobbit' films and is used in all 3 films, the style of the typography is significant to the time its based in, the film is very medieval with swords and shields type of fighting and the font used looks like old and broken stone.

This is the title for 'TRON' a sci-fi movie. This title reflects the movie which is very modern and uses basic colours of black, blue and other simple colours, The way the letters are different parts makes this title interesting and engaging.

This is the title for 'wreck it ralph' a kids animation film. The typography in this title reflects the movie well as it is all about video games and this title looks like a old fashioned video game with retro pixel display .

British and American production companies

When researching the different production companies i came across this power point on slide share.







https://www.slideshare.net/JadeMelady/british-vs-american-films/3 -link to source

 

Differences between British and Hollywood film production

British films:

• Set in the UK
• Smaller budgets 
• Less popular actors
• Smaller audiences
• Narratives based on local issues e.g. poverty, violence and drugs
• Different cultures

Hollywood films:

• Animations
• Higher budgets
• Famous settings
• Big stunts
• CGI
• Famous actors

Exploration of theorisits

Today we looked at the 3 different theorists Propp,Todorov and Straus

Propps theory was to do with different charachters anmd their roles in films or books.
in outr film we have the antagonaist who im playing, hes a stereo typical stalker as he has a black hoodie and hes a male. We then have 3 victims and a target these are all girls which is again stereotypical as they are all teen females and they are all vunerable, in out film the target is the protagonist as later on in the rest of the film she finds out about him and tries to stop him.




Todorovs theory was to do with narrative and that everything follows a 3 part structure, at the start everything is balanced this is called equilibrium, this is when the stalker is pinning the hair on the board and is in his element. Next is a disequalibrium when the stalker gets found out and is then put under pressure and out of his comfort zone. Equalibrium is next again and is retored for the stalker as he achieves his goals of collecting his samples and leaves the audience an enigma code.

Struass believed in binary opposition throughout a films narrative this is where a film would display evident contrasts betweeen people or groups. For example:

• Good vs bad
• Boy vs girl
• Light vs dark 
• Cat vs dog
• Peace vs war
• Strong vs weak

In my film the main binary opposition is boys vs girls as the boy is targeting the girls for the hair. There is another binary opposition on strong vs weak as the stalker is potrayed as strong and the girls come across as vunerable and weak

A series of unfortunate events opening

After researching different openings we came across the opening sequence of a series of unfortunate events, we took inspiration from this opening and from the shots of the murder board which we tried to include in our opening as we needed more close ups of the murder board to make it more like a thriller.