Equipment List

Camera ; HD 10801, handycam




Tripod ;Manfrotto – 190 X B


Mircophone Rode

Thriller Research/Production - Script

Script


Jessica running along a country path in with a perspective view of the killer chasing her.

Heartbeat noise linking in with music and blackout after every heartbeat whist Jessica is being chased

(Hand reaching out to Jessica.) Jessica: heavy breathing and shocked face.

Blackout/Flash back to the morning before the accident.

Jessica's mother: Jessica time to get up!

Jessica: Grumbles No, ergh

Gets up and goes to the bathroom, door closes fade out and then fades back when door opens, comes out of bathroom dressed.

Jessica goes downstairs and starts making breakfast

Jessica: looks at time oh! Grabs Jacket and puts on shoes "Bye mum!!"

Walks out of door up the pathway whilst being watched by killer

Brain Storming

Brain storming

• Type of film: Horror thriller
• Setting: Corpusty, graveyard, abandon area, light from the bottle bins (in Corpusty) the ford, Marriots way, Thurning, tower.
• Props of the villain character: knife or a weapon of choice
• Similar to, I Am Legend and Vacancy
• Shots of killer watching a young innocent girl
• Multiple killers?
• Killer has a weakness, and a symbol such as a tattoo which will be viewed when running.
• Title = Black Crow

Ideas from other media students – you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KSaTaIvMTQ

• Piano music, also birds but then turns into tense music
• Panning of the landscape
• Use of computer typing and close up of computer screen words
• Mixture of black and white and colour
• Camera going through grass to find a phone
• Goes dark with only a lighter lite – blown out in slow motion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJLABXpLOpc

• Different shots of two guys walking
• Typical villain – black hoodie
• Dialogue music is tense
• Twist being right at the start
• The title is very interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3cQeRG_xL4

• Starts with a chase and continually goes back to his memory of it
• Goes to dialogue
• Looking out through windows
• Tense music
• Slow motion
• Black and white
• Feeling of being watched
• Freezes with title at the end.

A brief synopsis of the plot

A brief synopsis of the plot

Young girl named Jessica previously lived in the city and her and her parents moved to the country a year ago. They bought a house in countryside at a low price. In the year they have been there, there has been many weird occurrence, such as; things going missing etc.

The reason these are happening is that the land has been sacred for many years and was used for rituals. The house was then built and has been haunted ever since.

Jessica then finally gets chased by the cult and find the object that they worship, and then the cult die or move on.

Individual Work - Sound

Sound


Sound is a very important part of any movie production, if the sound isn’t right it can really spoil the film. There are two types of sound:

Diegetic:

This is sound that comes from sources within the film for example, the sound of a bird in a cage. It’s sound that hasn’t been placed onto the film whilst the editing took place.

Non – Diegetic:

This is sound that has been placed over the original film and the source can’t often be seen for example, the sound of a dog barking in a housing estate.

Music

The type of music is going to play a huge part in our production. Using something that is up beat and energetic isn’t going to have the same affect as something that has an eerie and mysterious feel.

It’s high likely that we will be placing Non Diegetic sound over our production. Typical sounds can be placed over during the chase scene like a dog barking as the two characters run to the playing field.

For Diegetic sound there will also be emphasis on footsteps, when the killer walks around the house with camera shots of his feet, say walking up the stairs and the sound of his footsteps quiet but emphasized in a way that gives the viewer an intense feeling.

Individual Work - Editing

Editing

I have comprised a small video to show some simple transitions that can be used in our production, it will be posted on our blogs but here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPJl-F2o_7o
Transitions
Transition One, Fade: The most basic transition, it’s so simple and effect that I think it works the best out of all the transitions. It provides a nice smooth change between a scene. It would work best with a calm scene rather that a fast paced action scene.

Transition Two, Dissolve: Another simple transition but one at which I feel doesn’t work very well at all. It gives the film a crude, patchy and unprofessional feel.

Transition Three, Wipe Wide Down: This transition would be good to show a new day. It feels like it wipes everything clean. It would be used to show different times of days.

Transition Four, Page Curl: This one is also like Wipe, it feels as if it should be used to show a new beginning or change in time.

Transition Five, Inset: Personally I would not use this transition it feels very unprofessional. The transition feels too blocky.

Transition Six, Flip: This transition I could see being used in the title or credits bit not within the actual video clip itself.

Transition Severn, Bars: This one I feel is the worst of the lot, it feels so very unprofessional and doesn’t work well as a transition at all.

Thriller Research - Editing/ Transitions

For examiners use. See notes page (Editing)

Cutting It

Cutting It was a popular BBC television programme set in Manchester, England, which ran for four series between 2002 and 2005, total time of 60 minutes for each episode.

Created by - Debbie Horsfield and Starring - Sarah Parish, Jason Merrells, Angela Griffin, Siân Reeves, Ben Daniels and Amanda Holden

It got five nominations (BAFTA TV Award, National Television Award, RTS Television Award x 2) and one of which was won (RTS Television Award).

No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men was released in 2007 and produced by the Coen brothers: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. Its is a Western Crime Thriller, and won many awards including: three British Academy of Film awards, two Golden Globes, and four Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin. The setting for No Country For Old Men is in West Texas in the year June 1980



No Country For Old Men conforms to the commercial opening of a thriller because it sets the scene by using Extreme Wide Shots of the desert and there is no sign of civilization, this makes it feel like a very desolate place. There is a explanation at the start if the film which sets the mood. Also its very very silent and the only thing you can hear is the wind which makes it very dreary, the best example of this is when the man is hunting deer and its so silent you can hear his footsteps and the shell hit the floor when he fires his gun.

Thrillers

A thriller is a type movie that really keeps you in the dark and guessing until the end. Even once you think you've guessed what's going to happen there is always a twist which throws you off balance. There doesn't tend to be much blood or gore. The Dark Knight is a good example of a thriller because just when you think they've
caught the Joker he still manages to escape!

Top 5 Thrillers from IMDB.com
1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
3. Pulp Fiction (1994)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Rear Window (1954)