Flashback

We've got a few new ideas for the flashback. The camera will be positioned at a low level as a Point of View shot (POV) and it will be showing a woman in her early twenties crouched in the centre of two legs crying. The camera will then move backwards and be pulled away and the woman will reach for the camera and scream then be restrained from activity by the owner of the legs. We may use some sound effects of a baby/infant crying to create the sense of the POV being of the infant.
We'll keep you posted with how the filming and ideas go.
Thanks for rerading
Sam

Filming = Fail

Okay, well the title says it all, we went filming on wednesday the 28th. Anyway we booked the camera, got the time out of lessons and did everything that was needed. We then took the whole crew and the equipment to the location (Sam's House) to get our filming done. We thought that wednesday would be our last day of filming, and it was going well untill our luck ran out. The camera was half charged which caused obvious problems, but then after the camera ran out of charge we went for the charger and to our dismay the charger had the wrong attachment.
On slightly better news, we're planning to film on wednesday...The entire day to get it properly polished off.
The flashback is still being discussed. We are thinking of using Ipswich docks to increase the quality and believability of it all.
Thankyou for reading
Tom

Leon

Hey Hannah here,
This is another thriller that we studied in the process of creating a thriller opening. We decided to use aspects from Leon such as not revealing the main character straight away. We thought this was effective as it makes the audience ask questions. This is a key element of thriller and creates tension for the audience. I thought Leon was a good thriller personally and I thought it worked well hiding Leons features and his identity from us as we did not know if he was good or bad. Though Leon is more about killing where as ours is about revenge on a past expierence.

We have also booked a camera out for Wednesday 28th of January. We hope to get more successful shots, we also have had a better idea for the flash back and are considering filming at Ipswich docks, this would determain that the flash back is set in a different time and place and would allow continuity. We are looking forward to filming the rest of our thriller opening and hope everything goes well tomorrow so we can finally crack down on getting all the editing done. We are going to place our palmiary task for you guys soon.
Thanks for your help on the polls!

Filming TODAY!!!!!

We're going home to film today at 1.20pm. We're just adding the finishing touches to everything at the moment, our preliminary task will be on the blog later today!!!
We'll let you know how the filming goes after we've finished today.
Keep commenting
thanks
Sam

Virus production

Hey it's Hannah again just wanted to give you some more information on how we developed our idea.
We saw a small example of a low budget production called virus, this used the idea of web cams and technology to base their film. We were strongly influenced by this as it showed us how we could use web cams effectively within our thriller. Virus was more horror then a thriller, we astablished this because they use super natural references where a thriller is more realistic with it's content though the genre of virus is debatable. During this horror a man uses an internet chat room and web cam to see his wife/girlfriend but it differs from our storyboarded thriller as they use a virus file which opens up the webcam and then the wife/girlfriend gets taken away by a supernatural being. The whole piece is set within a office and used the idea of silence but having enhanced diegetic sounds for sounds to do with technology. We decided to stick to a more realistic approach with our thriller by using humans rather then supernatural beings also with a realistic story line which is exaggerated in some parts for more tension and auidence pleasure. This film helped us a lot to define the fine line between horror and thriller and allow our piece shine through as a thriller and not have to be debated over the genre.

Memento

Hello, Hannah here. Just wanted to give you a little information on some of the thrillers we have looked at...

We did some work on "Memento" which is a well known psychological thriller. I personally really enjoyed this movie. "Memento" influenced us by using technology as an idealistic object. In "Memento" they used a Polaroid camera and in our thriller we use a Web cam so we are more on the modern basis of things. This is a more ideal movie to look at for us because it is psychological and that interests our group since we feel they have better tension and better story lines rather then other thrillers.


We linked "Memento" to our piece because rather then using still image we are using moving image via web cam which is more high tech as I mentioned before. This will probably appeal to a more teenage audience as we are using program references such as msn and internet chat rooms which most the teenage population use now-a-days to keep in contact with their friends. This means they can relate to the movie in this way and understand the program references better then older audiences.


This is a Polaroid camera (on the right) which was used in "Memento". It takes still images and develops them there and then and prints the out rather then sending the film away and waiting a while for the to develop this is what made it ideal for the movie. Then on the left is a web cam which you can see a lot of difference between the two even though they are both to do with taking images. This is the sort of web cam we would be using in our Thriller.

Update!

Hiya,
So we've just finished the drafts of our storyboarding and should be getting that up on the blog soon, i've just started our final storyboards with any changes and hopefully some better drawings. Shot list is currently under developement and we're discussing cast and locations.
We have thought of using Tom's bedroom as the main source of filming and my own bedroom will be featured in the webcam view.
As for the everyday scene we're drawn between cooking dinner (the whole chopping and preparing sort of thing) and watching television and flicking through channels (This could be an oppertunity to give clues to the events that would of been happening later if we wer'nt just creating an oppening to a thriller.
Should have some more information coming in soon
thankyou
Sam

Basic Storyline for our thriller

So far we've had a few mix ups over the story but we're very nearly settled.
So far we have a man sitting at his desk on his computor, when his friend on webcam comes on and tells him hes found the file they've been looking for he becomes a bit anxious. As the file downloads onto the mans computor the webcam shows his friend being wrestled around by a government official. Now at this point he either uses print screen to get a picture of what is happening or he recieves the file and sees its contaminants. This causes a flashback to his past where a scene is shown of his mother being taken by the government officials. His reaction to this memory will be shown then there will be a short scene of the main character perfoming an everyday activity like cooking or watching television. There will be a cut away and government officials may be shown entering a front garden and walking up a pathway while constantly cutting inbetween the acitvity and government men at a quickening pace to build tension and then a knock will be heard by the main character and after the reaction is shown the opening will end.
Sound good?
why not give us some feedback and any tips for improvements?
thanks for reading
Sam