Friday, 12 February 2010

Hi Ellen,

Please get in contact to let me know what is happening with your Thriller Evaluation. If you are having trouble converting and uploading to the blog please send me the Powerpoint file via email to hknott@brit.croydon.sch.uk. This will at least let me know that you have done the work.

Thanks,

Hannah

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Filming Experience

After we had taken out our camera, after school on Friday 4th December, we went straight to the Croydon lookout point that took us longer than we expected to find. We were in quite a rush because we wanted to get there before it got dark. Luckily we found it just in time and set up the tripod and camera for an extreme long shot of Jake, the actor, sitting on the edge of a wall looking over London. We really liked how the shot turned out because you could see very far across the wall and it was the perfect atmosphere for the beginning of our film.
We used the focus and zoom buttons on the camera to get three different shots of Jake sitting on the wall, one close up, one long shot and one extreme long shot. Another thing that added to the realness of the shot was the fact that birds were flying pass which added a nice effect.
Our next shot was a pan of the landscape view across London and then coming back to Jake sitting on the wall. This had to be shot a couple of times because we couldn't decide the speed of the pan, the first one we did was too fast, then too slow but we finally got the perfect shot in the end. Then we did a close up of Jakes face but we didn't want the camera to see his whole face to make it more mysterious and make the audience want to know who the boy is.
The next shot was Jake pulling a box of matches out of his pocket. We used an extreme close up by using the zoom button on the camera that only needed one quick shot.

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Storyboard




Production Schedual

For our opening sequence we will need to film in four separate locations. The locations are a police interview room, Starbucks, the female characters alley to her house and the top of a hill in Croydon.

We will film the police interview room shots during school time as we can stay within the school site and find a basic room to convert into a police interview area. This is our best believable attempt of making a police interview room, because we do not know of any other buildings we can gain access too that contain suitable rooms or gain entry to a real police station. Therefore we will film these shots during our media lesson on Wednesday 2nd December. Luckily lighting in this scene is not an issue, because if there is a lack of sunlight in the room we can effortlessly turn a light switch on. Consequently we filmed as the sun was setting from about 2-4pm.

For the Starbucks shots we shall film these the same day we will film the scene of the boy on the hill. This will be beneficial to us because the whether conditions needed are roughly the same for both scenes so we do not need to make two trips. These conditions will need to preferably be not too wet. There also needs to be a fair amount of sunlight available as the scenes are to be shot during the day in the afternoon-ish late morning time. Subsequently we will film these shots on Friday 4th December, between 1-4pm.

For the last shot, of the boy and the girl walking down the alley way outside the girl's house, we need the conditions to be sun setting/dark so it gives the effect that the characters are going to the girl's house after a day out. For this location we shall use my own Nan's house. This is because this property is the house that most looks like the home for students or young persons to be living at that our group knows of. We shall film this Tuesday 7th December after school time between 3-6pm.

Prop List

The props we will be using are very basic and easy to come by.

Interview Room
In the interview room we will need and table and three chairs. This is to show that people we in here recently. We will also need a tape player to play the tape that will be hear over the top of our entire film, and we will also need a cup of coffee spilt over and a few papers, this is to show an interview has already taken place.

The Lookout Point
At the lookout point the main prop we will need will be the box of matches. This is because the matches play a key role throughout the film, as the boys tick is lighting matches over and over again when he is nervous. We will have him smoking as this gives the impression that he doesn't care about his health and give him a bad guy image in the film.

The Coffee Shop
In the coffee shop we won't be using any props, as we don't want to divert concentration from the main action of the two meeting and getting on with one another.

Taking the girl home
Again we won't use any props in this shot as we want to show the bond between the two of them growing and becoming stronger as she invites him into her house.