Production Schedule

Here is the production Schedule for our filming including our plan for shots. It includes locations and timing we will aim to meet when filming.

Week 7 Update

Call Sheet

Animatic StoryBoard

Here is our storyboard put in to an animatic with a colour gradient, sound effects and backing sound.  We are happy with the outcome and gives it the storyboard a lot of life, it helps us get a really good idea of the whole thriller intro.

Location & Recce

This is a prezi on the Location for where we plan to film our opening title sequence. This will help us to know exactly where we need to go for the filming and where to place the camera for each shot. Alex and Myself took the pictures.

Back Up Locations

• Canary Wharf
• Porsche Service Centre Byfleet (My Dad's Work Place)
• New Ash Green

We used our back up Locations:

We used Canary Wharf for the tracking scene, instead of by the River Thames. This is because we thought that Canary Wharf was a lot better suited to our Thriller opening. They are in business clothing therefore it made sense to have the tracking scene located next to Canary Wharf.

Firstly we were going to use a Library for the assassination scene that had a secret room, but we did not manage to get permission for the library so we used the backup location to go to the Porsche Service Centre Byfleet because we could get permission as my dad is the owner, he also opened it for us on a sunday so that it was empty. Also the location suited the plot of our opening scene really well. This location turned out to be a better alternative than our first plan in the library.

Week 6 Update

Storyboard

Here is our storyboard for our thriller opening, we are really pleased with the outcome as it shots a variety of shots and helps build up and image of what the final piece will look like. The only thing that could be improved is the fact that one of the actors was unavailable to play the 'Target" meaning we are missing around 4 shots, we shall do these when he is available and add it to the storyboard then.

Actors Being Used.

Music & Sound Effects

Suspense Music, this will be the backing music through our opening.

Sound Effects:

Here are the foley sounds we will use in the animatic. They will be used along side our sound track with the sotryboard to create the final animatic.

Asset List- Filming Equipment

Asset List - props

Editing Parity

These are pictures of the three of us taking in turns to edit parity

Week 5 Update

Costumes

Pictures of being shown how to edit parity

I took pictures of the screen when we was being shown how to do parity, this is so if we forgot how to do it, we can look back on the blog to check

Final Timeline

This is a Timeline for the final plot idea for our group opening title sequence. It shows when things will be shot and where each slate will be on the sequence. This will help us to be more organized when we come to film it, that way we can look at the timeline and see what shot is next, when and for how long. Alex provided some examples for me so that I could present the timeline a bit better.

Influences

We have three films that have influenced our group film idea: Taken, Colombiana, and Salt.

Taken

Taken is the first influence to our group film plot. This is because in the first part of Taken there are a group of bad men that take the two girls that are on vacation to Paris (a big City). The Dad of one of the daughters hunts them down and kills the bad men. This relates to our film plot because there are a group of men that are telling a man to do something that he doesn't want to do. Also the main character is hunting down a man, similar to the daughter’s father in Taken.

Colombiana

Colombiana is all about revenge, we see Colombiana’s parents get killed by a large group of bad men. Because of this we see Colombia want revenge on the people that killed her parents, therefore she hunts them down. The influence that this film had on our plot is that it is one person hunting people down. This create adrenaline and tension, making is a very good thriller. We also had an influence from this film because Colombiana’s uncle is very protective, just like our main character is with his son.

Salt

Another influence to our plot is the Thriller film Salt. This is because in this film Salt is trained to be a secret spy by a man in Russia. She is then expected to kill thousands of people. She is given the task and is expected to complete the task. However, she does not want to do this, and in the process her husband is murdered and she has to leave her normal life. This has influenced our plot because the main character is expected to murder a man he doesn't even know, just because he has been chosen to do the job, similar to Salt, also he has to leave his family at home.

Iconic Directors

Iconic directors was a fun task that we did as a group together. Alex, Nicole and myself all met up and researched directors of large films. This gave us some detailed information about some directors, which will be helpful in the future. We decided on drawing a simple drawing of what our directors look like then put them on wooden sticks, we then spoke the research that we found out about each dirtector.

Red Carpet Productions Logo Analysis

Here is the idea and analysis behind our logo for 'Red Carpet Productions'

Dexter Edit

Here is our Dexter Edit, we were only able to film half of it as the tape corrupted. We managed to film the kitchen routine scene which we were overall very happy with. We learnt a lot form this experience like lighting, camera angels, positioning and general camera work. Our skills using the camera have developed a lot since this shot.

Week 4 Update

Here is our update from Week 4

Week 3 Update Video

Red Carpet Animated Intro

Here is the intro for our production company "Red Carpet Productions"

Production Company Logo: Red Carpet

Here is our production company logo, Red Carpet Productions:

Film Brainstorm- Motive- By Nicole Burrows

This is now a brainstorm of our previous idea, this is because we had to change the plot to make it more of a Crime/Action Thriller and make it more believable. Consequently, we will need to re-do this brainstorm to match the final plot.

Thriller Expectations- Vox Pop By Nicole Burrows

I picked three people that would have different opinions on thrillers due to age, gender and different interests. This allowed my results to show a wide range of different opinions on what is expected from thrillers.

Scene timeline

This is a rough outline of what we plan to film for our opening title sequence.

Notes taken from the trip to London

We took these notes when Alex and myself (Ellie) went to London with the media class and spent a few hours in a theatre. We met a well known director and also gained a lot of inspiration and new skills that may be useful to us in the future for our opening title sequence. Therefore taking the notes will be very helpful.