Construction of the Production

Friday 19th March- Practice Run

For the practice run we filmed Hayley doing each of the scenes fully clothed this was to give us a rough idea of the shots we would want to use and would make sure that everything would run smoothly so that there are no problems or obstacles that we will need to overcome when we actually film the scene on Thursday.

Music

The music for our film will be done by Haykey's brother's band, but just in case we don't have enough time time to get the recording we will have to request a peice of music from either Moby Gratis (http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html) but receiving confirmation from Mobygratis usually takes either 5 working days or 2 weeks, so again we will make sure that we have a backup which we will get from Free Play Music (http://www.freeplaymusic.com/).

For the opening two minutes of our thriller we have chosen a piece of music called Things to Come which Hayley found on Free Play Music.

Filming update

We began our filming on Friday 19th, March and we will continue to film our on Wednesday 24th, March during our Media lesson and on Thursday 25th, March in our own time by doing this and by me also as the editor coming back in my own time to edit the film will allow us to meet our deadline of April 1st, 2010.

The film is set at Hayley's house where we will be filming our bath scene during our own time on Thursday; this scene has to be filmed right as Hayley will need to under water and if it goes wrong it will mean we will have to wait for Hayley to dry her hair for us to try again,

The film is set at Hayley's house and on Thursday we will begin to film our bath scene to make sure that this scene is filmed perfect first time round we will discuss what needs to be shot and how it should be shot and to also make sure we get it right we will be doing a practice run of what and how to get the shots we want.

Planning of our Production

In our group we have been discussing different idea's for how we can put together the opening scenes of our Thriller. So far we have thought about the types of shots that can be used, a rough storyline, a few ideas of locations and backgrounds, what conventions of the Thriller we will be including and what how we want it to be edited.

Group Members and Roles

• Hayley Skinsley- Actress
• Louise Vann- Cinematography
• Jaye Parker- Editor

Cast

• Hayley Skinsley- Girl Now
• Hayley's Little Sister- Girl in Flashback
• Hayley's dad/brother

Using Hayley's family will be efficient for us as a group as they will be on hand when we are actually filming, as we will be at their house.

Settings

• House of Hayley Skinsley
• Bedroom
• Bathroom
• Street
  

(Hayley's House)




These settings are again efficient for us as a group as Hayley is member or our group.

Equipment

• Camera
• Tape
• Tripod
• Bed
• Bath

Shots

• Point of view shots
• Long shots
• Over the shoulder shots

Animatic Storyboard "Girl In Der Badewanne"

The animatic is the animation of the pictures from our storyboard editied together to give an idea of what our openng sequence will look like. The animatic was edited by me (Jaye Parker), and then checked by the other two members of my group Louise Vann and Hayley Skinsley.

The Shining (1980)

The Shining was written by Stephen King (novel) and Stanley Kubrick, directed by Stanley Kubrick and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall and Danny Lloyd.
A novelist Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as a caretaker at Overlook Hotel and he brings his wife Wendy (Shelly Duvall) and his son Danny (Danny Lloyd) to keep him company throughput the long isloated nights. After a snow storm blocks in the family, Jacks sons Danny discovers that the hotel is haunted and along with his writers block Jack begins has a complete mental breakdown and the situation takes a sinister turn for the worst.


From the opening of this film we can already see one of the very important convention within the Thriller genre: isolation. The first shot we see is of a lake surrounded by mountains, there is then either a dissolve or an overlap showing a car driving down a curving mountian road surrounded by a forest. We then see that same car driving on a hillside where in the distance we can again see mountains, we continue to see the car making it way along roads at the edges of cliffs, the camera continues to move and follow the car as the characters continue to where they are going. After a few more shots of the car traveling alongside snowed covered mountains and forests we see the hotel that they are heading to and by using this opening sequence the film has used a Thriller convention of isolation.

The Crying Game (1992)

The Crying Game was written and directed by Neil Jordan and stars Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea and Jaye Davidson.
The film is about an unlikely friendship between an Fergus (Stephen Rea) IRA volunteer and Jody (Forest Whitaker) a kidnapped British soldier, but when the hostage taking goes horribly wrong Fergus seeks out Jody's lover Dill (Jaye Davidson).


The Crying Game begins a extreme long shot of fairground where the camera continues to pan around the fairground, before we are taken to the fairground where we meet Jody and Jude (Miranda Richardson). After winning Jude a teddy, they go away from the fairground where they begin to get physical only she is in on the plot to kidnapp him and helps to men to get a bag over his head and take him back to their camp.



(Please ignore the music as it has been changed.)