Production Schedule

Production Schedule

This is the production schedule, this endabled me and my group memebers to organise which day would be convientent for all people invovled in the filming off our thriller movie. so that all actors/ actors needed for a session on a specific date are able to attend each session in order for successfull filming.


We had to chose days that all of us were in school as the setting of our film was in our school, but most of the filming sessions were either after school or in our free time, becasue we couldn't interfear with lessons and our learning and we had to also organise where we will be filming and the length of time we will be filming.

Key Points For The Thriller Movie

Key points for the movie

This is a slide show of key points of out thriller movie and what we will include and what precautions we wll make in order of a successfull thriller movie. it includes risk assessments and the location in which our thriller movie will be filmed,

Filming Equipment

The filming equipment I used was a Canon LEGRIA FS306. This camera has a good quality picture.

This camera is small and portable which makes it  easier to film shots steadily. There is also a part where a memory card (SD) can be inserted in.

I will be used a standard tripod to aid the camera so that there is a grater chance of steady shots. 

For the editing I used a software called Adobe Premiere CS5, which enables me to make sure my final piece is rendered and all shots are consistent.

Shooting Script

Scene 1

           

            Location :-In a Secondary School

Close-up on cat’s eyes. Zoom out to see the cat’s face which fades into a blur. Non-diegetic sounds in the background - footsteps.

Scene 2

Blurred (done in editing) then to normal viewing long shot of a girl walking down hallway. Throughout has 2A and 2B mixed in. Scene 1 to 2B

Scene 2A

Different still shots of the actors having fun in the school playground. Diegetic sounds of laughter.

Scene 2B

Close up on the cat’s eyes blinking.

Scene 3

Then the girl gets to a classroom door and hears a diegetic sound of someone screaming. Then close up on the girl’s face being worried.

Scene 4

Camera follows the girl’s hand to the door handle. Diegetic sound of the door opening.

Scene 5

See the girl coming into the room then close-up on the eye then zoom out to see that her face is with a shocked/scared expression

Scene 6

Point of view shot (the girl) of bodies on the classroom tables-Scene 6A Close-up on blood dripping of the edge of a table (still point of view shot).

Scene 7

Point of view shot of the girl seeing a cat-Scene 7A Close-up of the cat’s eyes. Diegetic sounds of panting from someone of stage.

Scene 8

Point of view shot of the girl seeing a figure in the corner of the room sucking blood out of some other girl’s neck. Diegetic sounds of panting from the other girl who is getting there blood sucked.

Scene 9

Point of view/Close-up of the figure mouth (has fangs-the vampire). Mouth moves, diegetic sounds to non-diegetic sound of the word ‘Sorry’ repeated

Scene 10

Non-diegetic sound of the word ‘Sorry’ repeated. The girl gets spooked and slips pushing a vase over.

Scene 11

Non-diegetic sound of the word ‘Sorry’ fades out. Close-up of the vase with a black rose in it fall on the floor- diegetic sound of the smashing (Slowed down in editing).

Scene 12

Camera follows the girl’s had to the door handle. Diegetic sound of the door opening.

Scene 13

See the girl running out of the room then then running up the hallway (Camera stay still-becomes a long shot.

Scene 13A-see tears fall on the floor

The Cast

Name: Natalie Ernestine

Age: 17

Natalie Ernestine is an A level student. She is currently studying her As A levels An the subjects she is studying are

-Media Studies

-ICT

-French

-Business Studies
Natalie did most of the filming and has experience in using a camera and other media equipment and software. She also designed the 'ENZ Productions' logo, She likes listening to music, shopping, hanging out with friends and family and many leisure activites.

Name: Eloise Larkin-Hinds

Age: 17

Eloise Larkin-Hinds is an A level student and the A levels she is taking at the moment are

-Media

-Music

-Geography

She likes listening and composing music (which she did for the “Fangz” opening), cooking, loves animals, shopping and hanging out with friends and family. Also, even though she is part of the film crew, she played a role in the opening as a body ( She has had experience in drama because she took it for GCSE).

Name: Stephanie Chase

Age: 16

Role: Main Character (Elisabeth Smith)

Stephanie Chase is an A level student and the A levels she is taking at the moment are:-

-Art

-Photography

-Graphics

-ICT

She like listening music , shopping and hanging out with friends and family. The reason why we picked Stephanie to be are main character is because she has experience in acting.

Name: Rebecca Reading

Age: 17

Role: Body

Rebecca Reading an A level student and the A levels she is taking at the moment are:-

-Media

-Drama

-English Literature
-Psycology

She like listening music, shopping and hanging out with friends and family and acting. The reason why Rebecca played a body in the filming is because she not only volunteered to be one but because she has experience in acting we let her help.

 

Name: Saganaa Sivakugathasan

Age: 16

Role: Body

Saganaa an A level student and the A levels she is current taking at the moment are:-

-Accountancy

-Maths

-ICT

-Physics

She enjoys listening music and being with friends at school. The reason why Saganaa played a body in the filming is because she volunteered as it is nota very challenging role. 

Name: Sarah Khan

Age: 16

Role: Main boy character (Timothy Edwards)
Sarah is an A Level student and the A levels she is taking at the moment are:-

-Maths
-Physics
-Chemistry
-Eonomics

She likes listening music, going to gigs, and hanging out with friends.

Name: Jordan Mariott-Francois

Age 16
Role:  Main girl 2 (No name)

Jordan is an  A student and the A levels she is taking at the moment are:-
-Geography
-English Literature
-Sociology
-Law

She likes listening to music, haning out with friends, likes shopping, likes to try new food, and she likes to keep healthy.

Preliminary task - Evaluation on technical skills

Evaluation on my own technical skills in my preliminary task

                 

I had to create a preliminary task to practice my filming/ technical skills through a short piece of a character entering a door and match-on-action of two characters sitting at a table having a conversation.

When my filmed piece was completed, I had to use an editing software called ‘Adobe Premiere pro’ to edit my filmed piece to make the piece flow and appear very effective and also erase any irrelevant parts.

I had to use many tools, one tool is the ‘razor tool’ I used this tool when I needed to cut off any irrelevant parts in my
filmed piece, for example, any pauses, mistakes or any longer bits that were not important to the piece as a whole.

I also had to render the edited film pieces together so that my edited piece was more effective and linked very well with each scene.

I had to create a preliminary task so that i could practice with my camera work and experiment with using the cameras, which was sort of a 'trial and error' task which enabled me to see what things I could improve on while filming.

As there are three members in my group, we all made an attempt on editing the same raw footage to see who's piece would be best editied. My group decided to use me edited piece as they felt I had the best editing skills in this piece and would be used as our final prliminary piece.

Questionnaire Ananylsis

Questionnaire on thriller movies – Analysis

Q1. What Thriller sub-genre are you most drawn to?	Tally Out Of 10
o Psychological thriller – E.g. Se7en	2
o Horror thriller – E.g. The Exorcist	7
o Action thriller – E.g. Air force 1	1
o Sci-Fi thriller –E.g. District 9	0
o Religious thriller – E.g.	0
o Crime thriller – E.g. Heat	0
o Drama thriller- E.g. The Da Vinci Code	0
o Political thriller – E.g. Enemy Of The State	0

Q2. What do you like about the Thriller Genre?	Tally out of 10
o Confusion	3
o Mystery	1
o Suspense	5
o Compelling Characters	0
o Hero vs. Villain	1

Q3. Out of the choices, who is your favourite thriller director?	Tally Out Of 10
o Martin Scorsese	0
o Alfred Hitchcock	7
o Steven Spielberg	0
o Quentin Tarantino	2
o David Fincher	0
o M. Night Shyamalan	1

Q4. What makes Thrillers appeal to you?	Tally out of 10
o Challenging Storyline	1
o Actors/Actresses	0
o Directors	0
o Interesting title	0
o Surprising Twists-	9

Q5. How important are props, costume and makeup in a film?	Props	costume	Make-up	Tally Out Of 30
Very Important	8	9	8	25
Important	1	1	1	3
Fairly Important	1	0	0	1
Unimportan	0	0	1	1

Q6. What is the most important element in a thriller?	Tally Out Of 10
o Setting	3
o Acting	1
o Special Effects	1
o Props/Costume	1
o Plot	4

Q7. For you, what builds up suspense in a film?	Tally out of 10
o Music	1
o Lighting	0
o Sound	9
o Camera Shots	0

Q8 Should the film have its story unfold fairly quickly or slowly?	Tally Out Of 10
o Quickly	4
o Slowly	6

Q9 How do you think the opening of a thriller should open?	Tally out of 10
o Chase Scene	0
o Everyday life	0
o Flash back	8
o Flash - forward	2
O Present Time	0

Q10. In the opening of a Thriller, how much of the plot do you think should be revealed?	Tally Out Of 10
o As much as possible	7
o As little as possible	3
o Not at all	0

Here is our questionnaire analysis, this is scores of feedback we recieved from people who filled out our questionnaire. The parts coloured in red are the answers fro each question that recieved the most scores and therefore we will consider using the answers with the highest score as a part of our film so that we are sure that our target audience of 12 years and over will be interested in our thriller movie.