Audio Laugh

This is the audio for the little child's laugh, we filmed it in a quiet location, and then cut the video to keep just the audio. We will be using this laugh as the voiceover for thriller, to give the main character a creepy psyche.

Character-line

Ideas

At first we wanted to do a neo noir film but we decided that with the amount of time we had it would not be feasible. We have decided that we will film in colour and have the flashbacks in black and white.

Hev's script

Some of the things the voice will say during the opening.

What are you doing here, your not a religious man.

Don't go any further

You'll regret it

You did it

It is your fault

You let me die

Costumes

Girlfriend, normal top and jeans

Chris, dark jeans and white shirt.

Luke, Black hood and black trousers

Influence

As we are focusing on psychological side of thrillers there and certain films that have influenced us.

Donnie Darko - The main character is manipulated by his imaginary friend and makes him do things he wouldn't normally do. In our film the daughter of the main character has died but still "talks" to him through his subconscious mind.

Identity - Plays with the mind/personalities

Taking Lives - The main character has multiple identities.

Butterfly Effect - The main character goes back to his past. In ours they are done in flashbacks.

Age classification

Discrimination

The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory

language or behaviour.

Drugs

Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not

promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily

accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example,

aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable.

Horror

Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic

or sexualised.

Imitable behaviour

Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and

self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be

copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

Language

There may be frequent use of strong language but not excessive or unnecessary. Aggressive or repeated

use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.

Nudity

Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without

strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a

non-sexual or educational context.

Sex

Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail.

There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour,

but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable

unless justified by context. Works whose primary purpose is

sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.

Theme

No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is

appropriate for 15 year olds.

Violence

Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction

of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to

be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also

unlikely to be acceptable.

There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence

but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and

have a strong contextual justification.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences.

During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho (1960).

Testing Editing techniques

This is our test footage, we wanted to explore different editing techniques for a flashback. We used final cut and filmed a small amount of footage to test different techniques, we first used invert however this made the character too light, and gave them a ghostly effect. So we used just black and white, but it wasn't that different to normal footage, so we increased the darkness with colour corrector. This was really useful because it wasn't just one colour effect but we could warp the colours to suit the mood of the scene in a range of different ways.

Props pictures

Directing notes

Props:
Candles
Knife
Blood

Costume:
Hood
Black Trousers, white shirt

Characters
Villain
Victim
Girlfriend


Set/Location
Church
Forest/Bridge


Editing:
Fast cuts
Flash backs black and white


Sound:
Voice over or giggling
Diegetic sound of atmosphere
Non diegetic, Soundtrack but not all the way through
Sound breaks

Location moodboard

This is the location of our location, and where we are going to film. This is the church in a village near Sawston.

We intend to film on the weekend 26th - 30th

Our thriller title and Opening credits

Thriller opening sequence creditsWe will use one of these in our opening sequence as our thrillers name

Directing notes

Cinematography:

Close ups

Tracking shot

Shot reverse shot

Over shoulder shot

Reaction shot

Establishing shot

Here are some of the shots we will use taken from the classic Clockwork orange.

Mood board of other thrillers and pictures representing our thriller

Story Board

Shot List

Shot 1: Technically not a shot, but the screen will be blank, and a loud creak of a door opening will initiate the start of the opening as the movie fades in. It will fade into a high angle shot of a man entering a church. It will also show the length of the church.
Shot 2: Then there will be a close up of the back of the mans head as he removes the hood.
Shot 3: This will then revert to the same shot as the first, as he walks towards the alter. The voice will then giggle softly, almost out of earshot.
Shot 4: Will be at an angle from the mans face, and slightly tilted up. This is when the voice will start to talk to the man "What are you doing here, your not a religious man" The man will then twitch.
Shot 5: There will then be a tracking shot which will follow him along the aisle, behind the pillars.
Shot 6: The first flashback will be a shot of the man standing with a knife in his hand. With an over the shoulder mid shot. this will last only a second and another flash will initiate the end.
Shot 7: The man will stumble slightly and move into a quicker pace towards the alter with another tracking shot. During this the voice will say "Don't go any further..."
Shot 8: There will then be 4 flashbacks one after the other, the first will be of the man's first assassination, the first shot will be an over the shoulder shot of the man and his target.
Shot 9: The next flashback will be the target turning and seeing the murderer.
Shot 10: The man will stumble more powerfully before, touching his hand to the ground. This will be a mid shot.

Shot 11: The next flashback will be a struggle, as a close up.
Shot 12: The final flashback will be him dragging the body away. From a long shot.
Shot 13: This will then be a close up of his face, as the voice says "You'll regret it..."
Shot 14: The next tracking shot he will basically be in a jog, using a tracking shot through the pillars. he will pass a man praying.

Shot 15: This will initiate more flashbacks of gravestones.

Shot 16: Now back as the man he will run to the alter, then at the alter

Shot 17: this will initiate all the flashbacks in quick succession, and the man will collapse

Shot 18: The man will collapse and wake up in a new location and a POV shot towards the past.