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

Where sleeping dogs

BBFC (British Board of Film Classification)

BBFC

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), originally British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organisation, funded by the film industry and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films within the United Kingdom.It has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and some video games under the Video Recordings Act 2010. 

Classifications

• set up in 1912 by the film industry
• built to structure the certificate ratings of films
• films for theatrical release are seen by two examiners using the published guidlines to make a decision
• Dvd's are normally seen by one examiner when viewing the dvd version of a film that was released in cinema
• Examiners look into whether the film contains; discrimination, sex, drug use, violence, sexual violence, horror, nudity, language etc. They consider the context and message of the film, the impact it might have on audience members who view the film.  

• U certificate is suitable for all ages.
• A film rated U should be suitable for ages four and up as it is unpredictable to know what might upset a young audience. They should include a moral situation and a happy ending, with characters that make the audience laugh.

PG certificate is suitable for most audience members however some scenes may be unsuitable for young children.  A PG film should be suitable for a child age 8 and over without an adult present however parents are advised to give consent to let their child watch the film without parental guidance. Mild scary elements are traditionally included to unsettle the children's nerves as they enjoy the excitement of scary sequences, those who don't are not effected badly from the experience. Classification elements such as the length and frequency of scary contents as they don't want it to be too overwhelming for a young audience. 

The same criteria is used to classify the rating of a 12 or 12A, the difference is whether the film has scenes that may upset or disturb children under the age of 12 such as language an violence. However the 12 category is only used when a child wants to rent the movie, as no one under 12 may buy or rent a movie that is rated 12. 

12A - The 12A category only exists for cinema as nobody under 12 is allowed to watch the film unless they are accompanied by an adult, although these films are not recommend for anyone under 12 due to the content such as violence and possible swearing. Classification details include elements like crime, violence if weapons such as knives are easily accessible, anti-social behavior if anyone is being bullied for their race or age etc. If a film contains dangerous aspects which young children are likely to copy for example hanging or self harm the film may be restricted to cutting that out if the film is not considered to be a higher rating like a 15. This means that children aged 12 or possibly younger will watch the cut version of the film, however when the film is released on DVD the uncut and cut version will be available to buy. 

15 -  Suitable for people aged 15 years and over.  No one under the age of 15 should watch the film in cinema, rent or buy the film when it is released. For a certificate rating 15 you do not get accompanied by an adult if you are under the age. Classification for a 15 depends on whether there is sexual content such as nudity, the language use is it frequent and how much violence occurs are there gory deaths or mild scenes where someone gets shot. Horror films are usually rated 15 or 18 as they contain more violent behaviour, scary scenes and possible gore from the deaths, they can be psychological making it unsuiatble for a younger audience as it may give them nightmares.

 

18 - No one under the age of 18 can view the film, rent or buy it once released. Older audiences for 18's are horror fans or people who love violent wars and chases. People aged 18 and older love to be frightened and scared. The rating certificate is used to protect younger children from seeing things that may cause them distress or make them feel upset and vulnerable.

 

 

 

R18 -  Films that are rated R18 can only be shown in specific cinema's that are licensed for the content that will be shown. They can only be supplied in licensed sex shops and to nobody under the age of 18. This rating is a special and legally restricted classification. This rating is mainly used to show adult sex or fetish material between adults. Natural nudity with no sexual content can be shown at lower rating levels however this is because it is of low key, not frequent and is barely shown. R18 versions show a lot more nudity at a frequent and strong level with the sexual content visible this is why films with this content are of this rating.

Film title	Film rating and a reason why
HUGO	U –An orphan goes on a mystery involving his late father and a robot.
The Incredible’s	PG – A family who have powers such as ability to run fast and disappear.
Sherlock Holmes	12 - quest to solve a string of mysterious and brutal murders, Sherlock Holmes and his trusted ally Watson plunge into a world of dark arts
Safe	15 - A suicidal New Jersey cage fighter protects a young Chinese math prodigy from Triads, Russian gangsters, and corrupt cops in this action thriller.
The cabin in the woods	15 - A twisted and unusual take on the familiar ‘cabin in the woods’
The Shining	18 – A family heads to an isolated for the winter where an evil spirit influences the father into violent behavior psychic son starts to see forebodings from the past.
Disclosure	R18 - A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.

Thriller film classifications

The twilight saga:Breaking Dawn part 1:

In america it is rated a PG13 (12 in the UK)as it has disturbing images, Violence, sexuality/partial nudity and some thematic elements. This is the same as all of the other twilight films, from twilight, new moon, eclipse and now this film and the last film is also a 12. All of these films were also rated in the cinema as 12A's. From these ratings these types of films are aimed at at 12 year old's and above, people who like action but also a good romance and supernatural films but mostly people who have read the books. 

Fast five:In america it is rated as a PG13 but in the UK it is rated as a 12A as it has intense sequences of violence and action, sexual content and language. For all of the fast and furious films they are all rated around 12A's. These types of films are aimed at the more older generation as it is cars, guns, fighting and action, but as it is rated 12A it gives 12 year old's and some younger then 12 a chance to watch it as well. 

Season of the witch: This film is rated PG13 in america and in the UK it is rated as a 15 as it contains thematic elements, violence and disturbing content. This type of film is aimed at 15 year old's and older as it isn't suitable for the younger generation.

My thrillers rating

Our thriller is a psychological thriller as it plays on your mind, i would rate it as a:

I would rate it as this as we are aiming the film at 15 year old's and older, it will contain any sexual, drug or alcohol content in it.