Filming

Over the past week, we started filming for our thriller opening. Due to some changes with the location of the filming, we realised that we couldn't do some of the thriller as the place we did film didn't have the room to film the shots we wanted. This meant that while we were filming we deviated from the storyboard and included a large amount of improvising. We managed to get all the filming done, but when we imported it we realised that half the footage was too dark due to the time of year. We also realised that half the footage was in the night and wasn't very consistent. So we have planned to re film the rest, and have edited the film that we could use. We also created the music, and recorded some non-diagetic sound, such as heavy breathing. However as our stalker is a man, we thought we should probably record someone with less feminine breathing.

We need to make sure we keep everything the same when we re-film, like the set and clothing that the actors are wearing.

We would also like to apologise for the lateness of the animatic and risk assesment form, as we still haven't got round to putting either up.

abby and becki

Thriller Opening Story Board

The story board is a very important aspect of the end result, as without it we would'nt have planned each shot that we want to use, camera movement angle etc. This would mean when we came to shooting the opening, we wouldn't know what we were doing and it would all be made up on the spot. We also needed to think about what sound we need, and whether we want it to be diagetic or non-diagetic. We ended up deciding that we'd like a mix of both, using some uild-up music, but also including important walking noises for certain parts of the film.

This is our storyboard

abby becki meg

Thriller Idea

This is the idea we've had for our thriller opening so far:
Throughout the opening, we want to have a man who we never see the face of, we watch exactly what he does almost through his eyes, using over the shoulder shots and point of view shots.
So we watch him follow a girl home (in quite a stalker-ish way) until she gets to her house, we see her put her key under the doormatt and go inside. He then watches her through the window and we see her go upstairs to bed. The man then picks up the key from under the mat and lets himself into her house. He creeps his way around her house until he finds her room, where she's asleep. We watch him steal a photo from her room, and then we do a close up of the sleeping girls face, and hear him leave the house and as the door slams we see her eye open. We'd cut this footage up with the titles which will be white on black. The title of the film, which we haven't decided yet, would come up as the womans eye opens. After the main title, we see the man walking cockily away, and then running, and thats when we'd end our secret.

We got the idea of not seeing the face of the 'stalker' from the film 'Marnie' by Alfred Hitchcock, because we really liked the idea of mystery and the way it keeps you interested in whats happening.