Location (Research)

 

Luckily, we already have thought of a location for the asylum which is one of the school boarding houses. It is a scary, hospital looking building  and we feel it will definitely portray as an asylum.
We are unable to find a location for the detectives home (preferably an apartment), however, the school also own a small boarding home which has the right facilities and would be perfect to use as a small one bedroom apartment.
Detectives house: Turret(boarding house)
The asylum: Peaslake (boarding house)

Cast List

Cast list
 

• Adam
• Doug
• Jason
• Simon

All of these men we selected were in the correct age range we were looking for, each person are of an average males height. They also had the look we wanted to go for in our thriller, which is middle-aged and not much hair.

 

This is Adam Grant, our Media Studies teacher. He is going to be playing the role of our detective as he is the right age range (30-50) and is the appearance we were looking for. 

 

 

Props List

Props List

Props

• Alarm clock
• Knife
• Toothbrush
• Razor
• tie
• badge
• wristwatch
• food
• pan
• kettle
• newspaper
• car
• bathroom utilities 
• pills and container
• sandwich bag
• shaving foam
• bed
• kitchen table and chair

Character List

Character

Here I have a short list of what we want our character to look like for our thriller...

 

One Male character:

• 30-40years
• Tall
• Stubble?
• Well groomed
• Dark coloured hair

Altering thriller idea

BIG ALTERATIONS TO OUR THRILLER...

We focused mainly on our character, and wanted to change the way he acts, instead of having a normal routine which we thought was quite boring and we wanted the character to be an alcoholic instead of focusing on OCD. 

We decided to add more to the beginning of our opening sequence-before our character wakes up in the morning, we would have him stumble into his house and back into his bed drunk. We want our character to have an immaculate house, but we wanted him to start off by walking in, struggling to open the door drunk, a point of view shot of him walking up the stairs, continuing into his room, flops onto the bed and blackout. The edit being a blurred out/ out of focus effect. Then, to continue with the idea of the morning routine but he would be perfectly fine in the morning- like he's changed to someone else.

Who is Kyle Cooper?

 

Kyle Cooper (Born July 1962) is a modern designer of motion picture title sequences. The graphic designer himself has directed over 150 film title sequences. He is the founder of two internationally recognised film design companies, Imaginary Forces and Prologue Films. 

Some of his main films, Se7en, Braveheart, Spider Man and Iron Man.

Production Meeting Two

Production Meeting Two 

 

In the second meeting we had together, our aim was to complete a much more detailed storyboard as the first one was a simple outline of the story. In this production meeting we had to work out roughly the timing off each shot, whether we wanted lighting or not, and to decide if we wanted music in each different shot. This took a much longer time than the first storyboard and was much more challenging but we worked together well and got it done.

Production Meeting One

Production Meeting One

Discussing Ideas...
First we listened to each others thriller ideas; between us we decided that we wanted to use two thrillers combined:

First Idea

 

its starts off with a man who suffers with OCD (obsessive compulsive

disorders). We wanted to show this man's structured routine

and how everything is portrayed immaculate and in

an order. We wanted to include a twist to

this thriller where this man would be

a killer who kills beautiful

women, who are

all very the

same.

 

Second Idea

  

to

begin

there would

be an inspector who

comes to a mental health

asylum, to investigate a mysterious

death. The inspector look at an outline of

a body on the floor, he speaks to someone and

looks back and the body has gone and then a black out. 

 



Our group idea sharing worked with ease, we all agreed that we would interpret the two ideas as one.

 

Although, we were worried that the OCD idea would come across quite cliché, we are still very confident with this idea and we feel that we can film it very interestingly. The sequence will include something unique about OCD; which we are going to research.


 

In our first practical production meeting, we were starting our storyboards. A story board is when you put the story you are trying to portray down on a piece of paper by drawing a picture for each shot. We chose the best artist in the group to draw and the other two we're making final decisions. We went through this process very quickly and it made our thriller story even more realistic. 

 

Our finished Pilot Video

This our finished pilot video, which we filmed using a flip camera and we the put all the shots together on the software Movie Maker.
During the process of filming our pilot video, I thought it really helped us to know what our thriller was roughly going to look like, and whether we wanted to change anything or add anything in, it also gave us an idea of what shots we would have to consider and we also thought about what we would actually need to use on the day of the shoot.
As a group we worked very efficiently together and we planned out everything we were going to do before hand on our storyboard.

Our First storyboard



What is a storyboard? 

 

A storyboard is basically a series of drawn pictures that portray the order in which you want to film. It gives you a structured idea of the storyline, very similar to a comic strip, a visual way of planning each shot to be taken. 
 

1.                                               2. 

  

3.                                               4.

5.

What is a storyboard for?

A storyboard enables the film director to visualize the flow of the camera shots; it sets an outline of what is intended to appear on the cinema screen. Drawing a rough storyboard is the first step a director will take in visualising a script or a screenplay.

Once a storyboard is completed roughly, it is then used as the basis for discussions between the film director and director of photography.  It is not usually necessary to storyboard the whole film.