Preliminary Task

This is our preliminary task from a couple of months ago. It was filmed and edited in October however, due to the footage being wiped off of the Mac I had to re-edit it today. Our intentions were to experiment with the camera, tripod and shot angles. I feel that this turned out quite well as the different angles and shot types are smooth and create a good continuity film. 

We started by brainstorming the narrative and then finalising our ideas. Sophie plays the spy, Tom plays the note writer and Abi plays the note receiver. As I didn't act in this short film I edited it using iMovie on the Mac. We did had difficulty filming with the tracking dolly because the carpet was bumpy and it made it go wobbly. However, this didn't effect our final media product too much. My favourite shot is the extreme close up and pan to the left from Tom's face to Sophie's face in the background. The soundscape is the Pink Panther theme tune which I believe works really well with this piece. 

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Thriller Film Ideas

IDEA 1:

A creepy music box tune plays in the background whilst a close up of the spinning doll on the music box comes shows. The scene cuts to a girl in white walking through a forest/empty field (establishing shots/extreme long shots to show vulnerability). The girl is stumbling and the editing begins to get faster (more jump cuts). It becomes apparent that she is being followed or watched and that she is injured. She slumps against a tree and there is a mid shot that then cuts to a close up. An extreme close up of her eyes, pans left behind the tree and the audience see a dark/hooded figure. This light and dark costume for good and evil follows Helmut Nickel's theory of white hats/black hats. When the hooded figure is shown a loud noise is played so that tension is built. The girl attempts to get up and stumble away. The penultimate shot is a point of view shot of the hooded firgure getting closer and closer to the girl until it is right over her and her heavy breathing can be heard. Finally, the scene ends returning to the music box and the spinning figure slowly comes to an end, the box is shut by someone with black leather gloves.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B39S3vUmalA
Examples of creepy music box music.

IDEA 2:

The scene begins with a black screen and a slow mumbling, cracked voice talking. It then cuts to a long shot of a girl in an empty room's corner curled into a ball. There is a blue-ish hue over the clips and the girl carries on talking over the top of the clips. It is recognised that she is some sort of psycho. She peers out of the blinds hung up on the window (blinds are similar to bars which is typical thriller iconography). It is apparent that she is keeping tabs on someone when there is then a close up of her messy handwriting in a diary/book. There are jump cuts of her moving around a lot and then there is a close up shot of her talking into the recording tape. This is a very rough idea so exact shots and angles haven't been fully thought out.