Our Ideas (Post 2)

After looking at the sahots that we earlier recorded, we decided that we had some very good endings ... but we didnt know which one to choose. after some long discussion, we decided to worry about the ending at the end!

Our Ideas

We recorded som ideas on camera and will upload them onto YouTube then publish them on outr blog. We also started a story board to try and estimate how long some of out shots will be. We are also talking to some staff members about staying in school for a few hours after school to record our real production. This is becaused at these times, we will not be interupted by pupils walking around, and also, it will give a scarier effect for our thriller.

Some Ideas Caught On Camera

Me and katie decided that we will record some of our ideas next lesson, in order to make sure that our ideas will look good when we record them.

Alfred Hitchcock

To help me with the understanding of thrillers, i decided to do some research on Alfred Hitchcock, one of the worlds best filmmakers.

Alfred Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British filmmaker who specialised in thrillers. His work is known worldwide and his work was amazing. The famous "Shower Scene" from his 1960 production, Psycho is one that everybody knows, whether its the motion of the arm stabbing their victim, or the screaching music in the background.

Some of his works includeded The Birds in 1963, North By Northwest in 1959, and Notorious. He aslso claimed that his favourite film (of his own) was Shadow Of A Doubt in 1943.

Hitchcock died at the age of 81

OSCAR Award winning performance for our Preliminary Exercise !!

Preliminary Exercise COMPLETED !!!!!

We finally finished our preliminary exercise. After a few technical glips, we managed to edit our video and publish it on YouTube. Both me and Katie are very pleased with our filming, editing and most of all, our acting.

Preliminary Exercise (post 2)

This is the plan for our exercise :

Teacher marks work
Teacher calls other teacher to ask student to see them
Student arrives
Coversation
Arguement between teacher and student
Student leaves room agressively and slams door.

Preliminary Exercise

For our preliminary exercise, me and Katie decided to do a school scene where Katie was the teacher, and I was an under achieving student. However, after a few scenes of filming, we decided to switch roles. We had a few ideas, however we did not have any time to film them, so we wrote our ideas down, and decided to film them the next day.

Time and Equiptment

We have decided that our opening to the triller will be around two minutes. we intend on spending around an hour filming, and around an hour editing. We luckily do not need any more people in our thriller and all the props we decided to use, we already have.

Slight problems.

Before creating anything, we decided to have a meeting about the breif we have made. There are some small problems. For example, we would like to set it in a school at night, however, school is shut at night, so we may have to film during the day. unfortunatly i feel this will take away some of the affect, however there is nothing we can do about this. Also, only being in a two person group will pay a price, we are unable to have any extras in the thrilelr, and we do not have a camerman/women. Even though we have some problems, they will not hold us back from making a blockbuster movie !!

Continuity

This is making sure that if scenes are filmed with a cut or break in it, that the characters and scene are exactly the same when filming starts again. For example, if a character walks out of a room wearing a red shirt, and comes in with a green shirt, this is a continuity mistake.