Final music

Final music

 



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19uXdV1c_Ds
This video is the song that we are going to use, but we are only using the first few seconds where there is no singing. We are using this track as it is slow and also child like which fits the theme of our thriller opening. We are going to put the track onto garage band on the apple mac's and edit out the first few seconds and put it on repeat so it fits the whole of our video.

Poetry to put on the film

Poetry

 

 

We decided to put part of a poem onto our thriller opening at the end. This is the poem below: 

 

Lily stares, searching for an answer

Through the glassy image in the mirror.

A crystal tear falls,

So small, yet holding so much.

She's silent but screaming,

Nobody hears.

 

http://magenta_lily.tripod.com/sugardustedpoetry/id25.html This is the website Is where we got it from.  

 

 

In the end we decided not to use this poem.

Wordle

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This is a wordle of our thriller opening.
                                The wordle below is one from the internet of a random wordle about media in general.

Updates



Updates

 

So far we have been doing editing, some of the shots of the car didn't fit so Laura suggested we flip some of them so the car is going the same way on every single one, so that we don't break the rule of 180 degree rule and so that we have a mix of different shots that fit together. Next we need to decide on music and re-record Laura singing for the flashbacks and the ending of the film.  

 

Filming day two (6/12/12)

Filming day two

The ladder which i have to climb. The ladder is so we are high enough to do a very high shot for our title sequence. 

Me having a climb. This is me filming the high shot.

 

Me having a sit down while Laura watches. This is where i was filming a extremely low shot of just Laura's feet.

 

Laura trying to touch her toes. Laura in this is drawing out the hopscotch in the title sequence. 

 

Laura ready to film the hopscotch sequence.

The car with my dad and Ronnie in it.

The road we are using. 

Outtakes

These two are practise of the title sequence. We practised it twice so we could pick from them to see which one was the best to use in our thriller opening.

This is a practise of part of a car sequence that we were going to do. We pratcised to both see how to film it, how it looked and if we were going to use it. In the end we decided not to use this shot as it was too hard to do when we were doing the acutal filming.

 This is a practise of filming the cars wheels when they come to a sudden hault. We deicided that this was to hard to film as you would have to film it quickly and would have to be close to the car if we wanted it to look good.

My dad messing around for a blopper if we do any.

Practise shot for the car driving past at a high angle. I stood on a ladder for this shot. we practised it as when it came to doing it for real i would need to know how fast/ slow i would have to pan the car round to get the car within the shot.
 

This is a point of view shot of the car coming towards us as if it was coming at the audience. We thought doing this shot would show not just the view of the audience but of the character making the viewers feel like they are in her place. We pratcised it as it had to match the high shot of the car driving past which is above this video.  

This is a practise shot from behind laura as the car comes towards her. I thought this shot would be good as it shows that the character is there, it also shows what is happening so you can see the car coming towards her.  

Laura messing around.




Video diary

This is a video of how we thought the day went.

Ronnie's film prezie

Ronnie's film prezie

My thriller portfolio on Prezi

Lily

This is a presentation done by Ronnie on our film.

Thursday filming (6/12/12)

Filming

 

• Leave school at 12 and get to location at 12:10, which is at Graby.
• Find a suitable road and start to set up.
• Get Laura to get ready, so clothes and make-up.
• We film the first car shot which is a long shot of the car coming towards us and then a pan as the car goes past.
• Next we film a two shot of Ronnie and now of my dad, Wayne, in the car talking.
• Next is a shot of my dad looking up in the car mirror looking at the backseat but it is only a quick glance.
• Next a two shot with Laura in the backseat.
• Then a shot of my dad looking at the mirror again, which goes into another two shot but there is no Laura. Then it goes into flashbacks. 
• Then there is a shot from behind Laura of the car coming towards the camera and her.
• Then a shot of Ronnie and Wayne gasping.
• A pan of the car swerving her and then a shot of the wheels screeching to a holt.
• A shot from the backseat of Ronnie and Wayne turning around, then a shot of the empty road, then a shot of them turning round then a close up of Ronnie's face looking scared then a shot of my dad turning round to look out the window then a jump cut to Laura's face in the window.  
 

We don't need a lighting plan as we are using nautral light, as we are filming outside. The props we need are the same from the first day in shooting but this time we will be also using a car.
We will also be doing the title squence again using chalk and the road but this time with lots of different shots.   

Film developments

Film developments

We have decided that looking at the video we have so far, we need to make some improvements on the title sequence. We have decided to try out and practice more shots before we go out filming again to give us an idea to what we are looking for. These are some of the experiments that we are going to be working with....

This is one of the developments for our hopscotch title squence idea. Its a close up of Laura's feet.

This video is of Laura still on the hopscotch but at a different angle, as are the ones below.

This is a high angle shot.

This is a shot at a low level but infront of Laura so it gives the audience a view of her coming at you.

This is the second part of the one above.

This is from Laura's point of view.

This is a over the shoulder shot of Laura doing the hopscotch.

This is a long shot of Laura and the hopscotch.







Below is A video of our thriller opening.(Ronnie posted the following below).

This is where we are so far. We have put the clips together and changed the flashbacks to black and white, whilst changing the theme of the title sequence to "dream" theme, to try and make the writing stand out. The music is on there too, (this the one we have chosen previously and is posted on my blog).

The problems are that the music does not make sense to what is happening in the plot. This is because I did not take into a consideration the sync whilst i was making this on the garage band.
Also although we have tried to make Laura's voice to sync to her singing in the clip, we have not succeeded that.

Future improvements: We will try and find something more simple for our music choice
We will also record Laura singing again, whilst looking at the clip, so she know where about she sang certain bits.

Tomorrow we are going filming again, and we are going to do the title sequence again, trying out more variety of shots. The most important thing however is that we are filming our car sequence tomorrow too. I will post another video of an upgrade version and the full version of our thriller.

The reason why the music finishes at the end, is because i have copied the clips of Laura singing and put them in between the flash back itself as well as the voice of her singing, which was part of our experiment.

Music

Our backing track for our 

thriller opening

 

 

 

 

This is our backing music that we made on garageband by Ronnie and the singing was also recorded which is Laura singing.

 



Production logo improvements

Production logo improvements

 

This is the orignal version of our logo. 

 

This is one of the improvements i made to it. I cropped the photo first then sharpened and put a burnt like effect on it.

This photo was the one above it but i had done a burnt effect on the main part of the wolf which is just adding a shadow effect, then i added a effect to give it this look.

This Photo has been tinted red and the wolf has had a burnt effect on it.

Our group thinks that the red production logo is the best as it is simple but also different at the same time, it looks good and fits in with the theme of our thriller opening. 

Grimsthorpe castle map

Grimsthorpe castle map

 

This is a map of where we were filming.

Music

Music

We thought for our music to either take a backing track of a song and slow it down and fade it into a track of Laura singing the childern's rhyme 'twinkle twinkle little star'. We also thought about creating our own track but here are some examples of songs that we want to use.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igYPspndEAY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ayAq0xIMwE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBnP4qwyO9k


But we wont be using these cause Ronnie is making a track using garage-band on the macs.

Our filming day diary

Our filming day diary

 

 This is the video of the diary we did about the day we had filming.

Video practising and out takes

Video practising and out takes

 

These are some of the videos of either us practising some certain shots or some outtakes.

 

 

This is a practise shot of doing a zoom out from our necklace because it was going to be the link between the flashbacks and the main body of the opening.  

 

 

 

This is a video of a practise, when i tried to zoom in smmothly.

 

This is also the same as the one above but i zoomed into it too fast.

 

 

 

 This video is of one of the practises as well, in this i zoomed in too fast and too much.

 

 

These two videos are of how we biult our title squence, which we filmed the blank square first and then had a shot of it when we had written in it and then put them into the opening of our film. 

 

 

 

  



Inspired shots

Inspired shots

 

For one of our shots we got inspired by the title sequence of James bond casino royal. 

The only first few seconds are important in the video above, as we want to use a similar shot but we want it to go from a full screen shot to spiral out like the James bond spiral but as it spirals it changes to another shot and then that shot becomes bigger as if the spiral is unravelling. 

In the end we decided that this type of shot would be to difficult and would possibly confuse the audience. 


Sixth sense was another film we took inspiration from as it was a psychological thriller which we wanted to do as well. The fact that this film contained ghosts also inspired us to do the same and it kind of helps with our film to.





This scene where the mother and son are in the car is what inspired out idea to do a car scene between a mother and daughter but also the ghost. This is because it gives a sense of mystery as the audience would want to know who the characters are, why they are important and what has happened to the ghost girl and how the two relate to each other. In this case the relationship between the two is they are all a family and the little girl dies. 





Shutter island gave us inspiration because of the flashbacks. In our opening we are using flashbacks so watching this filmed helped us see how we could make them work within the other shots we used.






The film gone is a good film to use for inspiration as in the film it plays on the mind but also the title gone is simple but effective. The film also uses good music which also helps us with our film.

1st day filming

Filming

 

Although it was raining all day, i believe that we have done a good job . These are videos and pictures from today below. The videos are just the out takes that we have done or whilst we were practising the camera work. These wont be used in our final a.

 

 

This is the castle at grimsthorpe.

This is a shot of the surroundings.

This is also of the surroundings, it shows the emptiness and also the weather.  

This is a shot of Laura before we did her make - up.

These two shots of Laura getting her make up done by Ronnie.

Ronnie finishing Laura's ghost like make-up

This is what Laura looked like in the end.

This is Laura at the first shot.

This is a shot of random deers.

This a shot of the surroundings and the road.

This is a shot of the bridge we used.

This is us filming the bridge scene.

This is a shot of the lake.

This is a shot of the pond that we used, we made sure the shots we used made it look like it was a big lake.

This is a shot of the lake and the castle behind














This is a shot of us filming the title sequence



Thriller filming day plan

Plan for the day

1. Everyday driving along a long narrow road (Graby) (Jana and Ronnie with me in the back filming
2. Listening to the sound of the radio - louder on the inside but still can hear on the outside of the can when i pan the camera round
3. Casual convo, laughting and joking around with each other
4. Looking at each other thinking and seeing the road ahead that is clear but as soon as Jana looks at Ronnie, Ronnie look straight ahead and gaps (she things she sees something is in the road)
5. So shocked Ronnie is lost for words
6. Ronnie takes control of the steering wheel and turn to avoid it
7. Jana panics and 'are you crazy?'
8. Ronnie looks behind and breathes heavily
9. Ronnie looks at her mother and her mum looks at her but she thinks she sees something behind and looks and scream but when Ronnie slowly looks around, nothing is there
10. Then Ronnie's point of view then camera will then zoomed into Jana's eyes and seem like a flashback in time. As the camera zooms in Jana's eye everything around her is blurred so the main focus is Jana's facial features
11. The next scene Laura as the little girl skipping around the rose garden (scary music)
12. Switch straight to me drawing names on the road (title sequence)
13. Little girl talking to Mr. Frog (actual frog) near the lake
14. Back to drawing names on the road
15. Straight back to me drawing names to the road
16. Then screams and Laura falls in the lake
17. And finishes with the teddy bear floating in the lake

My pitch

The Pitch

These are screen shots of the powerpoint we are going to use on friday to show what our three ideas are and then our actual idea we are going to use which is idea 3.

Mood boards

Mood boards

 

 

This is a mood board for our idea one:

 

 

 

 

 

This is a mood board for idea two:

 

 

 

 
This is a mood board for idea three:

 



50 years of thrillers

Thrillers over 50 years

1960's

1962

Release date(s)	5 October 1962
Running time	109 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Budget	$1 million
Box office	$59.6 million

Dr. No is a 1962 British spy film, starring Sean Connery; it is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather and was directed by Terence Young. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli.

1963

The birds - A wealthy San Francisco playgirl pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town which slowly takes a turn when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there, in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.

Release date(s)	28 March 1963
Running time	119 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$3.3 million[1]
Box office	$11,403,529

1964

Goldfinger


Goldfinger- Bond is back and his next mission takes him to Fort Knox, where Auric Goldfinger and his henchman are planning to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. To save the world once again, Bond will need to become friends with Goldfinger, dodge killer hats and avoid Goldfinger's personal pilot, the sexy Pussy Galore. She might not have feelings for Bond, but will 007 help her change her mind? Written by simon_hrdng 

Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	17 September 1964
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$3 million
Box office	$124.9 million

1965
Repulsion

Repulsion is a 1965 British psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski, based on a scenario by Gérard Brach and Roman Polanski. It was Polanski's first English language film, and was filmed in London, as such being his second film made outside Poland. The cast includes Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser and Yvonne Furneaux. Polanski himself makes a cameo as a spoon player^[1] among a trio of street buskers.

Distributed by	Compton Films
Release date(s)	June 11, 1965 (1965-06-11) (UK) October 3, 1965 (1965-10-03) (US)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$300,000

1967

Wait until dark

Wait Until Dark (1967) is a suspense-thriller film directed by Terence Young and produced by Mel Ferrer. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a young blind woman, Alan Arkin as a violent criminal searching for some drugs, and Richard Crenna as another criminal, supported by Jack Weston, Julie Herrod, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.. The screenplay by Robert Carrington and Jane-Howard Carrington is based on the stage play of the same name by Frederick Knott.
Hepburn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (losing to Katharine Hepburn), and Zimbalist was nominated for a Golden Globe in the supporting category. The film is ranked #55 on AFI's 2001 100 Years…100 Thrills list, and its climax is ranked tenth on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.



1970's

Alice,sweet Alice (1976) 

Alice, Sweet Alice (also known as Communion or Holy Terror)is a 1976 independent American slasher film directed by Alfred Sole, and starring Linda Miller, Paula Sheppard, and Brooke Shields. It was released theatrically three different times, each time under a new title: first as Communion in November 1976; as Alice, Sweet Alice in 1978; and as Holy Terror in 1981. This film was ranked #89 on Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments for the scene when Alice scares Karen in the warehouse.








Coma(1978)

Coma is a 1978 suspense film based on the novel of the same name by Robin Cook. The film rights were acquired by director Michael Crichton, and the movie was produced by Martin Erlichmann for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The cast included Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Richard Widmark, and Rip Torn. Among the actors in smaller roles are Tom Selleck, Lois Chiles, and Ed Harris.
The film is in color with stereo sound and runs for 113 minutes. An intense sense of paranoia pervades the film, similar to other films of the 1970s such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Conversation, The Stepford Wives.The story has been adapted again into a two-part television miniseries to be broadcast, in September 2012, on A&E television network.



1980's

Enigma (1983)

Enigma is a 1983 motion picture directed by Jeannot Szwarc, and starring Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey and Kevin McNally.
Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) is recruited as a CIA agent. He is sent to East Berlin on a mission to steal an Enigma code scrambler. This is part of an attempt to stop the Russian assassination of five Soviet dissidents which is planned for Christmas Day. What Alex doesn't know is that the CIA already has a code scrambler. By stealing the scrambler in Berlin, they are trying to convince the Russians that they don't have it.
On arrival in Berlin, Alex finds that the KGB knows he is there. Alex must use numerous disguises and escape from a number of capture attempts. He seeks shelter with his former lover, Karen (Brigitte Fossey) before moving on as this is too dangerous for her. Karen and a number of Alex's other old friends are taken and assaulted by the police in an attempt to gain information about Alex's whereabouts. As he gets more desperate, Alex enlists Karen's help again: she seduces Dimitri Vasilikov (Sam Neill), the KGB man in charge of the hunt for Alex, in order to obtain information. In the end Dimitri catches Alex and Karen and finds the scrambler hidden in an exhibition artifact. As he is in love with Karen, he lets them go, however, keeping the scrambler which was in fact not needed. On Christmas Day the assassination attempt is successfully thwarted.




Far from home (1989)

Release date(s)	June 30, 1989
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$11,859[

Far from Home is a 1989 independent thriller film. It stars Drew Barrymore, Matt Frewer, Jennifer Tilly, Dick Miller, and Anthony Rapp. John Spencer also appears in a cameo role. It centers on a divorced father who breaks down in a desert town along with his teenage daughter, forced to stay in a trailer park they attract the intentions of a troubled local who becomes dangerously fixated on one of them. Barrymore's book, Little Girl Lost, which describes her battles with addiction, was written around the same time as this film was made. The film was shot in the Black Rock Desert and in Gerlach, Nevada.





1990's

Die hard 2

Die Hard 2 (sometimes referred to as Die Hard 2: Die Harder)is a 1990 American action film and the second in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by Renny Harlin, and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane. The film co-stars Bonnie Bedelia (reprising her role as Holly McClane), William Sadler, Art Evans, William Atherton (reprising his role as Richard "Dick" Thornburg), Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, Fred Thompson, John Amos, and Reginald VelJohnson, returning briefly in his role as Sgt. Al Powell from the first film.

Release date(s)	July 4, 1990 (1990-07-04)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English Spanish
Budget	$70 million
Box office	$240,031,094

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