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

Casting

For our film we thought it would be a good idea top ask girls with different colour hair, we thought it would be a good idea to start with the girls in our media class. They all agreed to be in our film then we had to decide on whos was going to be the haircuting hooded charachter, in my group we decided that i was the mostr sinister looking boy to play him.

Music for our thriller

Today our group searched for music for our thriller film, we wanted music to do with hair so it would it our film,we thought about the music used in the thriller 'Insidious'
This was the song used it is very conttropuntal to the movie as its a horror and it isnt a sad song but the lyrics fit that scene perfectley as we can see a woman looking through the window from the garden.            

This is the song we've decided to use for our murder board scene as the song is talks about hair and we decided as a group that it would fit nicely.

Test shots

This was one of the test shots we took for our timelapse of the trainstation. we wanted out iemlapse to include alot of styuff in it so we found the right angle on top of the railway bridge were we could see the cars trains and in the background you can see the sky so we can also see it getting dark is when we will film our opening sequence

Names

It was quite difficult to come up with a name for our film as some sounded to comicy and some just didnt match the film so decided to do a mind map of all the names we could come up with, so after to talking to other pupils and our teacher we decided on "close cut"

Storyboarding

 This was our first story board that we produced, the aim was to get a basic understanding of what we were going to film and to see if our ideas would look good. To start we only did the first six shots but eventually we will have a story board for our
complete opening sequence





Thiswas when we first started our storyboards we struggled coming up with the first coupkle of shots we nominated oliver to draw the rough small pictures.