It is important to consider to risk as the group ultimately will want to have make sure that nothing goes wrong within the production phase so to ensure this we will ensure that we take precautions in regards to the risks that we have previously calculated.
The risk assessment that we have created will help us to avoid the risks that are possible for example we know that the area that we are filming in is very muddy therefore making it difficult to run on so we will have to ensure that the characters in this scene are wearing the correct foot wear and taking other precautionary measures.
Filming schedule
A filming schedule is important to have as it allows the group to keep track of the location, equipment and various other things that are happening on particular days of filming which can then be used as a way of checking progression.
We ended up making a few changes to the filming schedules as location had to be changed for various reasons such as not being suitable to film in however apart from this the rest of the filming schedule was kept the same
Meetings and discussions are important to carry out as they allow the individual group members to discuss ideas with each other which can ultimately end up improving the final scene. These meeting also allow other members of the group to critique the ideas of other members which will make sure the idea satisfy all of the group members and also will also ensure that it fits the requirements need for the opening scene.
The group worked well in terms of creating the narrative and designing certain other elements of the opening scene however the group was let down in other crucial elements, for example in terms of organisation other members of the group did not conform to the bare minimum of expectations. They also delayed the film process by constantly decreasing the filming time in order to attend to other commitments which ultimately affected the rest of the group as this did not allow for a sufficient time of period which therefore had an negative impact on the quality of the opening scene.
It is essential for roles to be allocated to individual members as it is not possible for directors to do every role especially in large films as there are many tasks to do which is only possible when located to different people.There are many roles within the production team for example there are producers,editors, sound producers, writers and many more which are all necessary for a film of any genre .
We decided on certain roles before the actual production of the film however our main criteria for allocating the roles was experience in the role or in a similar role, so for example i had experience with finding copyright free music in the past so i allocated myself to that role and was able to quiet easily find sounds that were adequate for our film as well as fitting the criteria for the music used. The roles allocated for each member were as follows:
Producers (definition:"prepare and then supervise the making of a film before presenting the product to a financing entity or a film distributor")- Tyler Osman, Mikaeel Khaliq
Directors (definition: "a person who directs the making of a film")-Tyler Osman , Mikaeel Khaliq
Actors (definition: "individuals that have the role of performing") - Mikaeel Khaliq, Tyler Osman and Samantha Apperly
Director of Photography (definition: "The person who is in charge of the lighting and camera settings of the motion picture but who does not always control the camera itself")- Mikaeel Khaliq
Music producers (definition:" Those who have the role of either producing suitable music or being able to locate copyright free music")- Mikaeel Khaliq, Samantha Apperly
Screen Writers (definition:" an individual who creates an orginal narrative for a film or other media products") - Samantha Apperly
Editors (definition: "works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture")- Tyler Osman
Tyler Osman's roles are stated above. Tyler specifically did quite well when it came to directing the film as it seemed he had quite a clear vision as to what would look best on camera and was able to give good suggestions in terms of cinematography and how the scene should be filmed even when he was on camera which proved to very useful as a second opinion allows for reflection and can most certain prevent mistakes.He also had no problem during the role of his acting apart from being a little irresponsible in regards to the costume however we were able to over come the problem with a few adjustments.In regards to the editing he started off well as he claimed that he previous knowledge in editing film which is why we chose to let him do the task individually however his quality of work did not seem to be up to par so i decided to take it upon myself to continue with editing as i was more willing to put in the work which turned out to be for better.\\ Samantha Apperley's roles are also stated above in the list. Samantha's major role was the acting as she was a vital part of our opening sequence as she was the main character and had to be in every single role, this provided both negative and positive aspects. The role she played was up to a relatively high standard which i cannot fault her for however as she was such a key element to the filming she did prove to be quite difficult to in organising herself to meet at the arranged time of filming which was most probably her major downfall. There were other minor downfalls like refusing to do certain things during filming but they were amenable. However she did provide the narrative for the whole opening sequence which a quiet conventional to thriller films which made it a good choice of narrative.
Within their role the other members of the group have continued to do research on their specific roles in order to ensure that the final opening sequence is to the highest quality. We have tried to stick to the roles which have assigned to ourselves however in certain roles other other group members have had to take over in order to ensure that the task has been completed fully and to the highest degree of quality possible. By creating specific role for each group member it should have allowed us to focus solely on the roles which we had designated to ourselves, it should have also made the roles easier for each of the group members as we had less to concentrate on. The specific roles also should have assured that we were able to designate more time to the roles as we had a smaller burden, which ultimately should increase the quality of our opening sequence. In conclusion, the roles allocated to each member did not necessarily prevent other members from not doing other tasks, the editing task eventually became a shared task between myself and another group member. However as a whole each group member did reasonably well in their allocated role although there were a few roles which were shared among the group. I would make sure that the roles of each group members were not shared as this would have made the process a lot quicker.
The scene starts wit the two characters which are supposed to be portrayed as a couple, they're situated in a deserted car park at the time of dusk. The setting was specified within the miss-en-scene ensuring that it was conventional as possible. We carried on the conventions this scene/setting as we made sure that low key lighting was present the whole scene as this created more suspense throughout the scene. The scene then goes on to show the two characters in a heated argument which should hopeful shock the audience straight away as the opening scene does not ease the audience into the theme of the thriller, the low key lighting is key here as we want the audience to feel more tense.The argument carries on for a short period of time before the male character storms of to his cars and leaves the female stranded in the dark car park with no way of getting home, ideally we are going to create a close-up at this point so the audience are able to see the facial expressions of the female character. Soon after the stalker will be shown however before this we want the audience to come to a realisation that the female character is in fact alone in the car which should hopefully build a sense of suspense in the audience we may do this by incorporating a long shot which is designed to show the environment in which the character is in which fits the purpose here.When the stalker is shown in the camera shot there should be some sort of non-digetic sound which will show the audience that this character is the antagonist as it will make the situation suddenly seem more eerie.The costume of the antagonist will first be revealed to the audience here, which is dark clothing that hides the identity of the antagonist in order to create more mystery about the character.The main focus during this part of the scene is making sure that the female is to convey emotions of panic to the audience to make them realise that the character in the distance is in fact something to be afraid of. The scene then goes on to the show the female character panic even further as she frantically to get her phone out however to her dismay the phone has no signal, here there will be a combination of a mid shot and a close of up of the phone , the mid shot will be used to show he body language of the female character and of the phone to emphasise that there is no signal which makes the character stranded in the car park.The style of editing will most likely be fast paced here as we want the audience to really feel that the situation is in a state of dismay, this type of editing is achieved by changing the camera angle several times. After this scene the antagonist will slowly come to a realisation that the girl is on her phone and most likely trying to call for help so he makes his move and walks toward the female character, naturally she becomes hysterical and decides to brisk walk towards any type of exit from this car park no matter where it leads too. The female character ends up walking to an alleyway where a panning shot will be used in order to show the audience the environment as well as showing that the speed that the characters are running at which is important as this show how much the female character wants to get away front the antagonist. As the characters run out of the alleyway the female character sees a forest and decides to run into it as she sees it as a way out. A POV is used in the chase scene as it shows the audience what the antagonists point of view is hopefully create more shock as the audience and can experience the situation from a first person view. The chase scene carries on deep into the forest as know the female character slowly starts to become more and more helpless, eventually she evades for him for a while but she falls over a branch which looses her critical time as the antagonist is not far behind holding a knife which adds more shock and surprise to the audience as there is the presence of death constantly through the chase scene.When the female character falls there is no longer enough time for her to escape as the killer is now running up to her, he bends over her and and the lifts the knife up, the scene then ends her in order to add more enigma to the scene as the audience are kept guessing as to what will happen next. The opening scene we have created is conventional in many ways for example the characters, iconography, lighting, editing and sounds are all inspired from other thriller films which ensures that our opening scene is relative to other thriller films which ultimately is what makes the various elements and the film as a whole conventional
The purpose of a group storyboard is for all of the group members to combine their interpretations from the individual storyboards and all come to an agreement as to what the final opening scene should be like in the form of a storyboard however here we can also focus on the types of camera angles, iconography and the types of editing styles that we want to use.So once we had all created our own storyboards we scheduled a group meeting and proceeded to compare all of our storyboards evaluating each section and coming to a conclusion as to which one is most suitable for the final opening scene or alternatively we could have decided to combine two different into one if they both add value to the scene.
As i previously mentioned we created a group storyboard so we could all combine the ideas of the individual group members into one final story which will would be the most conventional in relation to thriller films as all 3 of the individuals storyboards were critiqued in order to be most conventional and suitable for our end opening scene due to the scrutiny. There were certain element in group members storyboards that we decided to include for example one of the group members had incorporated varying timing of shots which allowed us to portray more emotions to the audience through a change in editing style for example using slow editing in the scenes we want to emphasise the emotion of suspense and fast editing in the scenes where we would like to emphasise the emotion of panic.There were also certain elements that we all had included in our own individual storyboard which were low key lighting so of course this type of lighting was used in scene as it was clear that it was something that we all agreed on. There were also new ideas from certain group members like including the sound of a heartbeat or heavy breathing in certain scene in order to stress the emotions of the characters so during the chase scene in our opening scene we would use a faster heart beat to show the audience that the victim is extremely frightening and clearly fighting to escape the antagonist , the heavy breathing would also further strengthen this as the audience can relate heavy breathing to a state of panic, these types of sounds are often used in thriller films which is one of the main reasons we have used them as it further conveys emotions as well as making certain elements more conventional.Many of the elements used have been inspired from other films , for example the use of slow and fast editing was inspired from the human centipede as there is a scene that uses theses editing styles very effectively. The use of a heartbeat was quite clearly used in shutter island which one of my other groups must have used previously for inspiration on sound or other elements however for the use of this sound to be effective the sound must be edited in correctly and fit the images of the scene.We incorporated all of these ideas by creating a group meeting and discussing ideas that we had previously come up with in our own story boards, during the meeting we all looked at other group members storyboards and noted which ideas we liked. After we noted the ideas we liked we then discussed which would be best for our opening scene and collectively created a group storyboard and incorporated the most suitable ideas.
The storyboard we have created fits the purpose as it has done exactly what we wanted which was to incorporate all the best and most relevant ideas from different group members.As previously mentioned we managed to incorporate others ideas by having a group meeting and discussing the elements we had used in each others storyboards.No compromises had to be made as my group generally had a similar concept of how we wanted the final storyboard so we knew what elements we wanted to include.I did not necessarily have to make any compromises however i should added more editing styles in the storyboard which will most likely be used when we get to the editing stage apart from this i have nothing else i wish to change.
My group members are Samantha Apperley and Tyler Osman, group meetings are essential as they allow all the group members to exchange ideas with each other which will make the narrative and general concepts improve.
In our first meeting we discussed the fundamentals of our task which was the narratives, we initially produced our own narrative so we had something to discuss in our meeting. We then analysed each narrative and came to a conclusion that Samantha's was the most suitable to our task however we felt that some elements needed changing such as the end scene where she had planned a torture seen however thought this would be too had create as we do not have the means to make it look realistic, it also made the opening scene seem more like a scene that would occur in the middle of a film. So we then changed the ending to a chase scene which we had seen in mant thriller filsm before hand while doing out reasearch tasks, we felt that this was more appropriate then the torture scene and at the same time made our scene more conventioanl as through this we could add many more conventions such as slow editing.
We planned the type of facial expressions and body language that needed to be used within our thriller scene for example the victim needed to have a scared expression on her face throughout the chase scene and closed body language throughout the arguement to show some fear.The costume were also decided upon as this showed the audience what type of people the characters are, myself and samantha are wearing casual clothes whereas tyler who will be the anatagonist will be wearing all black clothes to try and hide his identity and the pyhsical charactersistics to create more enigma in relation to the characters. We planned on using low key lighting throughout the scene as when we looked at many other thriller films this seemed to be the main type of lighting as it made it harder for the audience to see certain things therefore creating more suspense and mystery.As mentioned previously we had planned on using an abandonmed car park and and obscure forest as these both make the settings of the scene more conventional to thriller films.
We need inspiration before we can create our thriller process as in order to produce a film that is appealing and engages the audience. We can take inspiration from other films as we are able to see what techniques have been used in order to create suspense, surprise and shock. i have taken inspiration from various films like scream, sin city, the conjuring and Halloween as they all use many different techniques to engage the audience with the three elements that i previously mentioned.
In this scene there were many inspirations that i took and then incorporated into my actual thriller sequence for example there was a vast amount of slow editing as well as fast timing of shots which are essential in every thriller film.This type of editing inspired me as it allowed the director of this film to portray the emotions of suspense and panic with simple editing techniques which can easily be incorporated into any film.I will try to incorporate these techniques into my opening scene during the whole chase scene as this is the type of situations that these type of editing scenes are used in as suspense and shock is always present in these scenes.It is difficult to make the use of these editing styles completely different as it is similar situation used in "The human centipede"however during the editing stage i will make sure that the use of these techniques is not exactly the same.
Previously i had looked at the conventions used in the film "scream 4" there many conventions used that were actually used in many films such as the sealed identity of the killer, use of knife and blonde female victim. These were all relatively inspiring as they were conventions that seemed to be used in many successful thriller films and also added more suspense, shock and surprise to many of the scenes filmed. It evident from many of my more recent posts that i have decided to use all three of these conventions as it fit the narrative so well, however i have tried making sealed identity of the antagonist a little different as usually many of the antagonists film wear masks however ours does not yet the killers identity is not revealed. Unfortunately i was not able to make the the use of the knife and the female blonde victim unique as it they are conventions that are not able to be altered and tend to be similar in many thriller films.
In this post i researched the cinematography used in the film sin city and there were many types of camera angles and shots that were of interest me as they showed me different how characters can be portrayed differently depending on the camera angle or shot.In the scene they used close ups and high angle shots which showed emphasised the the expression on the characters face and the high angle showed me that if you manipulate the camera angle to make certain characters seem either more inferior or less inferior. I plan on incorporating both types of camera angles/shots and many more throughout my opening scene however i will try to make them a little different but these types of shot/angles are quite conventional so they represent the same idea in most films.For example i will a high angle to make the victim seem more inferior which is done in many other thriller films making it quite conventional to a thriller.
In this film there are many aspects of sound which are of interest to me like the use of screaming and heavy breathing both of which added more suspense and shock to the scene.These two particular styles of sound have provided me with inspiration to use them in my opening scene as the screams showed the audience how scared or panicked the victim was and the heavy breathing depending on which character it comes from also adds suspense to the scene as it adds a sense of doubt to the audience.These two particular aspects of sound are going to be used within my scene during the chase scene to show that the victim is extremely scared and the heavy breathing will show that she is starting to become helpless, this has become different to the film above as it is used in different situations and used in a different concept.
My research was helpful as it allowed me to see many other conventional techniques in other films which i could use and adapt into my style to fit the narrative.These techniques have made my sequence better as using the techniques from other films i can now emphasise the three elements of shock,surprise and suspense in a better manor.
