7 The Influences 8





This is the clown from IT, although The Shining is a Horror we had influences from this

7 The Camera Broken 8

• On wednesday we did some practice shots in the long road wooded area. This was useful because it gave us extra direction on what we are going to shoot in the real film introduction. The tape was mucked up so we lost all of our footage, :(

7 The Location Information 8

• we have decided upon our location for our shooting, We have decided on a wooded forest site in Newnham, this is not far from the college site so it will be easy for us to reach.
• this will enable to create the scary woodland images we want to create

7 The Shooting Schedule 8

• We are doing an over night shoot rather than a weekend, we are starting on a Monday night and ending on wednesday

• The storyboarding stage may be followed by simplified mock-ups called "animatics" to give a better idea of how the scene will look and feel with motion and timing. At its simplest, an animatic is a series of still images edited together and displayed in sequence. More commonly, a rough dialogue and/or rough sound track is added to the sequence of still images (usually taken from a storyboard) to test whether the sound and images are working effectively together.

7 The Unknown 8

This is the animatic for our thriller

7 Shot List 8

• The shot list for our opening title of a thriller...The unknown...is:

• Shot1- This is a shot of two girls setting up their tents whilst camping. This will be a long shot through trees and branches.

• Shot2- This is the stalker kneeling down on the floor looking at the girls through his binoculars. This will be a closeup.

• Shot3- This is the actual view through the stalkers binoculars. This is a mid shot due to the binoculars being a close up as such.

• Shot4- The first picture of the clown without the binoculars covering his eyes. This will also be a close shot so w get to see the scary features of the clown.

• Shot5- The stalker now pulls one of the girls from behind as she goes off to collect the barbecue from the car alone.Close shot is needed

• Shot6- The forest is shown through panning and there is only one girl to be seen.

• Shot7- The stalker burying the body behind a tree far from the other girl. Long shot but a tree is slightly in the way.

• Shot8- Another close up of the stalkers face and the girls face as she sees the clown and then she screams and runs.

7 The Important Stuff 8

• Whilst this lesson is about the important stuff introducing each other in the class to what we are doing our openings about we are also making sure we have our animatics and our presentation ready for the class. We also need to make sure our blog is updated though.

• Okay first things first we have our letter in which means we can use the camera outside of college time. We have negotiated times and we think that next tuesday would be a good time too start our filming as we have a whole day to create different scenes and times of the day.

• We have yet to create our list of times that we need our cameras for though and will also get this done through out the lesson.We also have sorted our files out so we will not get any of our work deleted due to an accident.

• We will start some test shooting and footage so we can get the angles correct and the lighting correct so we do not ruin time with our planning and different types of mist and fog. We do not want it raining when we do our filming so we will work around this.

7 Generic Conventions of Thrillers 8

The Generic Conventions of thrillers are varied as a thriller can contain pretty much any plot, but the idea is to entice the audience with confusing plots and mystery. Although generic , the thrillers main job is to confuse and have ambiguity. This therefore would surprise the audience, and not follow their first suggested conventions. These surely are the generic conventions of a thriller. In our thriller short we are having an evil character who is a vicious killer obsessed and possessed by Satan. We are also having two girls going camping, this is very reminiscent of film like The Blair Witch Project. Unlike The Blair Witch Project we are film in a third party view. This is to separate our short from being a horror, in that we do not intend to scare the audience, but thrill them.

Ideas

8-Ideas-7

• Disorientation. r
• Devil. r
• Demon. r
• Darkness.
• Girls shopping. r
• Stalker. r
• Eerie music. r

7 Storyboarding 8

We spent the beginning of our second planning lesson looking at storyboarding. We got shown the advantages of making a storyboard which included

• having a guide of which places to go
• we know what movements the actors have to do
• the director(s) know whether the planning is working or not

We decided that one of our group members would do the main drawings (Josh) and then the rest of the ideas would contribute to the ideas and drawings too. We haven't thought of many ideas yet and are having discussions about many things such as, which area we are going to use which type of music, what actors (male and/or female).

We had ideas of an eerie effect and having mist in the shot and Kat and Chloe running around in a foggy and misty garden, with childish giggles in the background. Then there is shots of a clown (Josh) and having him holding different 'harmless' weapons. We see him walking towards the girls in a stern angry manor, yet he is creepily smiling, completely contradicting himself. The girls hear clown giggles and slowly turn around to see this mad clown slowly walking towards him with his head down and his hat showing, he slowly lifts his head with a scary smirk on his face, the girls scream and start to run....blackout and title appears.

the reckoning

analysis on the reckoning project from 2007

7 Analysis on The Reckoning (2007) 8

• Our group discussed many things about this opening title sequence and we like many things about it.
• There was no dialogue in the sequence so made the audience focus on what the actors were doing rather than what the actors were saying.
• The music fits in very well with the moved keeping in time with the beat and pace.
• The mise-en-scene was accurate as they had good props, good setting and good costumes making the sequence look scary and authentic.
• The titles were in the corner of the shot so not too drag to much attention from the action.
• The genre was clear the audience know straight away that the film will be a thriller.
• The editing was unfocused but this made a really effective impact, because the plot of the sequence is distorted and unclear at this moment in time.

All group members contributed to this evaluation.

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