Planning: Micro elements - Ms.Begum

Planning: Micro elements - Ms.Begum

Sound

Music

What is used? 

In my research to find good thriller theme song I came across 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' green goblin theme song this theme song is used in the green goblins first official appearance in the movie.

When is it used?

This theme song is used when the protagonist enters the the building and first witnesses the trail of blood on the floor and follows it.

Why is it used?

It was chosen because the build up in the beginning of the song is perfect and low pitch and the sound level increases gradually into the song which works along side the build up to the speed Amani is moving at his breathing and also the thickness of the blood all these factors increase along with the insanity of the theme song.  

Off screen sound

What is used?

For the off screen sound we have decided to go with the people whispering affect and when searching for it we came across a child whispering affect.

When is it used?
It is used at the same time as the music when our protagonist enters the building and sees the blood on the floor.

Why is it used?

It is used becasuse our character suffers from mental problems and he can he the whispers so they increase along with the speed of all the traumatic things that he is witnessing. Also it works well with the theme music because it begins at a low pitch so when you combine the two sounds together it adds a greater affect. But the key point as to why the whispering is a child voice is because it works with the idea that he is now going crazy and it's his younger sister haunting his mind.

On screen sound

What is used?
For on screen sound we had heavy breathing and creek of the front door.

When is it used?
The heavy breathing is used when Amani is rushing up the stairs in shock of the blood trail and the door creek is used when Amani enters his house.

Why is it used?
The heavy breathing is used to create a mood of angsiety, fear and tension due to the speed of the breathing also how loud the breathing gets, its a rush of all these emotions when combined with the other elements. 

Editing

What is used?
multiple straight cuts is an edit used in the thriller.
When is it used?
It is used it the blackout scene when we get in sight into the main characters head.
Why is it used?
It is used to create an effect of fear and insanity as all the cuts act almost as a monatge of disturbing images and actions used to confuse and shock the audience.

Planning: Final Idea - Ms.Begum

Planning: Final Idea - Ms.Begum

Genre: Thriller 

Sub-genres: Horror, crime and action. 

Characters: 
Victim:Ruth
Protagonist:Amani
              
Title of storyline: That One Night.

Storyline
One night as the antagonist Amani puts his key in the door as he is at the final stages of getting home. As he puts his key in his pocket he notices blood drops on the floor, he bends down and touches a blot of blood on the floor and upon doing this he has a bad feeling, he begins to make his way up the stairs realising that the blots of blood have now become a trail this makes Amani trace the faster heart racing and heavy breathing. Upon get to the top floor the trial of blood is leading directly to the door with a imprint of blood on the side of his door where his sister should be. He bursts into the door to find the trail at it's thickest point and at the head of the trail lay his beloved sister Ruth lifeless on the ground. He clings to her hoping for a miracle with no result and blood of all over his hands he begins to rock back and fourth violently as he black's out and goes into a state of madness having visions and hearing his sister screaming, blaming her for the incident. Once he wakes up he finds himself laying next to her also only this time the bloodstained murder weapon is in his hands and the police knocking at the door...."could it be?"

Planning: Mise En Scene - Ms.Begum

Planning: Mise En Scene - Ms.Begum

 

 

Setting

 

Where?

There will be two settings of our thriller. The first one will be at Hazal's House (one of our group members) this is a good place to use as a setting because it has a long set of stairs before you reach the house.

 

Why it is used?

It is used because we intended to use the stairs in order to create a tension build up. We will do this by creating a trail of blood for our antagonist to follow from a first person POV and add in usage of heavy breathing theme music and off screen sound to create affect.

 

What response will this have on the audience?

The affect this will have on the audience is that it will build tension and keep them on edge because as the antagonists breathing (along with the music and off screen sound) gets louder, the trail of blood gets thicker and has more violent blots of it on the floor.

Where?

The second scene we are using is the dark drama room in Oasis Academy Hadley. (Not actual image) This is a good setting because the room is painted in black and it has black curtains that can be drawn to make the room even darker.

 

Why it is used?

It is used for symbolism and to create affect as it represents the darker corners of our antagonist mind and as he is on screen doing weird and disgusting things the darkness of the room makes it easier to understand the abnormalities of the things our character is doing.  

 

What response will this have on the audience?

This creates a gruesome feeling response from the audience because of the sick and twisted music combined with the montage of weird activity and extremely close up shots.  

 

 

 

Iconography

 

What will be used?

 A blood-stained kitchen knife will be used in the process of the film and this will be the murder weapon used to kill our antagonists' younger sister

 

Why it is used?

This is the weapon of choice because using a knife as a murder weapon is seen as a more personal statement and a more physical method of killing someone. We also decided to make it a kitchen knife because it captures the brutality of a tool that is used for everyday purposes which creates a darker connotation for the item because you would have to use quite vicious and violent movements to stab someone with it and a lot of force is used.

 

What response will this have on the audience?

This will put a lot more fear into the audience because the viewing age of the people that can see our thriller is an age rating that has probably used a kitchen knife for cooking before, also they can relate to it because the weapon most used to commit murder for that age range is actually a knife so the fact that they can relate to the iconography creates a more fearful response because of their own imagination. 

 

Lighting and colour

 

Where it will be used?

lighting and colour will be used in the opening scene when our antagonist finds his murdered sister in their house and also in the blackout scene when he is in the drama room.

 

Why it is used?

It is used to captivate the mood and the intentions of each scene 

 

 

What response will this have on the audience?

This creates a manipulative response from the audience that can easily be changed by the primary colour and contrast that is being presented on screen in the film.  

Planning: Story Board - Mrs.Begum

Planning: Story Board - Mrs.Begum

 

 

 

 

 Storyboards help to create a story line for the movie project you are making, a lot of detail goes into story board making the scene, what happens next, all aspects of sound used, what edits will be used everything is noted down and analysed this makes the film a lot easier to make when it comes to animating or shooting scenes because everything is planned in full detail.

 

Planning: Shot List - Ms.Begum

 

 

Planning: Shot List - Ms.Begum

 

 

The shot list is an organised list of what shots will be used in each individual scene. It covers detail of how what shots will be used in terms of what angle and size will be used, during what movement and for how long the shot is for (duration).

 

This gives us a guide as to what shots we can use while filming each scene because if it is planned before than we can just follow the list during filming instead of think of what shot to use in any scene, making it quicker and easier to film in affect. 

 

 

 

 



Planning: Initial ideas

Planning: Initial ideas

In the group that I have been placed in I now work in a group of  4 including myself. Each of us came to the group with our own initial ideas of what film to create and do.

Amani (Me): My initial idea

Genre: action thriller

Theme: modern day gangs, Drugs, Murder

Plot: Revenge

Narrative: A boy who is doing well for himself in school strays his path due to his older brother being murdered in a gang related attack, in an attempt to avenge his brother he follows a dark path and goes after each gang member before the police get them. On the way he is consumed by the life of gangs guns and drugs and the further he goes down the path the more he finds out about his older brothers dark past too.

Gizem:
Narrative: Starts off with seeing the school class rooms. One of the employees of the school are watching the CCTV cameras everyday for normal daily security. The employee starts to realise something weird is happening in the classrooms at school. Then cuts are starting to be made in the CCTV footage. The employee goes around the school and into the classrooms he/she realises blood on the walls and the tables have been moved around Into weird places. Meanwhile after 7 days everyone has realised that 7 students have been gone missing and it must have been planned because it will done professionally. 

Alsi:
Narrative: A women has murders her 2 daughters because we partner cheated on her. The women starts to have flashbacks and starts to act weird which came to a solution that she has gone crazy due to her husband cheating on her and her killing her children for her husband. The women has been taken away to the mental hospital and she has killed her doctors while being checked up. 

Hazal: 
Narrative: lady sleep walks to her daughters room and kills her daughter by biting her neck. When the lady walks back to her room he starts to have nightmares of her daughter. When she wakes up she realises that her nightmares have happened while she was sleeping. She walks to her daughters room and doesn't see no sign of her daughter no blood or anything. The lady starts to hear things such as " you killed your own daughter" the people around her thought she had gone mental and took her to a mental hospital. No one believed her which made her committee suicide and die. 

Planning: Character Roles - Mrs.Begum

Planning: Character Roles - Mrs.Begum 

Name of Character: Amani

Played by : Amani (Me)

Age:18

Gender stereotype role: 

Costume: White T-shirt with black jeans and black trainers also a silver bracelet located on the right arm.

Hair and makeup: Uncut hair with blood smudged on the face and right arm also blood located on both hands and heavy blood stain on the shirt.

Represented as: A character who is continuously losing grips with himself and is becoming mentally unstable.

Role within narrative: As he is coming home to his sister Ruth he finds a trail of blood splatter on the floor only to trace it right back to his own house. As he enters his broken into house he finds his beloved sister lying lifelessly on the floor covered in blood and passes out in shock, however upon waking up he finds himself lying on the floor next to his sister holding the murder weapon with the police knocking on the door but the question is, did he do it? There is a dark presence lurking inside him that refuses to hide anymore.

Name of character: Ruth

Played by: Ruth

Age: 11

Gender stereotype role: Innocent younger sister of Amani 

Costume: A white shirt with a black fleece and tracksuit bottoms

Hair and make up: Blood stains on his clothes 

Represented as: The only character that used to keep Amani's sanity in check so she was saving him just as much as he was saving her but with her now gone and Amani having witnessed her cold body lying on the floor the memory of Ruth will continue to haunt Amani and his mind state will twist her image as his attachment to his younger sister will be his mental torture.

Role within narrative: Ruth is brutally murdered at the home she shares with her big brother Amani and although she is gone in body she lives in Amani's head and is made to seem very,very real to him.

Planning - Pre Production Paper Work - Mrs. Begum

Planning - Pre Production Paper Work - Ms.Begum

Before we are able to record me and my group must produce our 'Pre-Production Paperwork' which legalises our production and filming in the settings chosen for the locations and the actors and also the timetables of who and what is needed of our production crew on certain dates of filming different scenes of the film before brining it together in the edits.  

Production Schedule: Is an asset to a production company that are shooting a movie project. It's the time-table showing the locations of where the filming will take place at what date and time and who from the movie crew is needed for that specific day, this saves time and money for the production crew because its expensive to have the whole production team on scene at one time when filming and it's a waste of money if their services are not needed for that scene because the production company will need to pay everyone. It is crucial that every member of the production crew has this time table so they know when they are needed for filming. (Our production group document below)

 Location Recce: The location Recce is a document produced by the member of the production team who is tasked with finding the locations for the scenes. After liaising with the script writers and story boarders and if they agree that the location is suitable for the scene, a recce then needs to be produced of the location analysing aspects of the location, how to get there and potential risks or problems with the location. All these details of the location must be included to notify the team when going to the location they know what problems they will or may face when recording at the scene location, so on the recce you can also place a method of how to overcome this problem next to where the issue has been mentioned, which saves time for the crew when it comes to figuring out how to solve the problem. (Our production group documents below)

Risk Assessment: The risk assessment is a very important document because it helps reduce possible injury or death on set. Any possible dangers on set are analysed and identified before recording so that the production crew are aware of the hazard and take precuations to either lessen the potential danger or eliminating it making it safer for both actors and the rest of the team while on set. It is in table form and all the hazards are listed in the likely hood of the danger occuring and also how bad it could possibly be and the most important ones will need to be addressed first, this is neccessary because if th e accident is to happen noone can really make a claim against the production company because the problem was identified and was made known to the person before it happened.  (Our production group documents below)

Client Release Form:The client release form is a legal document that is made for the actors that agree to star in the movie project so it must be given to all the members of the cast. This document goes over any terms and conditions made between the actor or his agent and the production team to have them have a roll in the movie being created, before signing this however the production team must present an analysis of the location and the calculation of risk and upon seeing these factors they must decide if they want to sign the form or not. If they sign the client release form it protects the production team if the actors tries to take any legal action against them by claiming they didn't know the risks or come to an agreement. (Our production group document below)

Location Release Form: The location release form is a legal document which is made for the owner of the location to sign as proof that they have agreed to allow you to film on their property, this means that if you have problems with recording onsight you notify whoever giving you problems that you have been authorised clearance to film at the location by the owner. A copy of this will be needed for both the owner of the property and the production crew you may also add in the document that if the production cew damage anything on the property they do not need to cover the costs to replace it so they must sign it at their own descision. (Our production group document below)





Preliminary task - Mr.Smith

Preliminary task - Mr.Smith

The reason why we have done the preliminary task is to gain experience and the feel of what it's like to shoot a film and record on a professional level for the first time. The task was to record a short video of ourselves using various camera angles and techniques that we have previously learned during our research stage. We then had to then edit down the shots taken to turn it into the 30 second video but fit it all in all the shots we took.     

The scenario of the video was two people talking about their AS subjects in a classroom and about the struggles. The conversation was between me and Gizem

Group roles for this task was:

• Amani (me) - Person 1 talking about subjects (actor)
• Gizem - Person 2 talking about subjects (actor)
• Hazal - Camera Operator (Filming the preliminary task)
• Asli - Camera Operator

 

Problems and difficulties during the procedure: The difficulties that we encountered on this task was the lack of filming and the amount of shots that group had filmed. When recording our camera operators ran out of ideas on what angles to shoot so we didn't do as many shots as we possibly could.   

Another difficulty that was encountered during editing was due to the amount of footage we had and because of the lack of various shots we couldn't make a lot of edits otherwise we wouldn't have 30 seconds worth of footage. So we couldn't fit in a lot of edits and shots because we didn't record a lot of them.

Conclusion: I have learned that in order to have a film that is 2 minutes long a lot of thought has to go into filming in order to have enough material to edit  because if we don't have a lot of footage we will struggle during the editing week that follows after filming and we may need to go out and record some more which would be a waste of time also if we are not creative enough and don't come up with a wider variety of shots then our film won't look professional or serious.