Storyboarding (Billy Camden)

 Storyboards are a series of pictures that contain images displayed in sequence for the purpose of illustratring how the film is to be presented such as motion picture, animation, motion graphic and camera angles.

 Storyboading is important when planning to make a film as it creates a better view for the film producers. Also when storyboarding it creates new ideas in the writers mind to what the story contains and help to see how the film will eventually look.

Storyboard update
We are currently in the process of producing our storyboard, as we have made some changes to our shot list we we started filming, we have to retake some pictures to match them to our film. Sorry for the delay we will have it up here ASAP.

Weekly Updates (Abigail Odum)

Week 4

 At the start of this week Billy took the location pictures and uploaded it onto our blog, he put it in numerical order and wrote about the location. I wanted to get all our cast together to take photos of them for their character profiles however we couldn't meet due to circumstances so I took pictures from their face book accounts and uploaded it unto our blog. I wrote about the characters and the reasons why we chose them.

 In addition to this we got together as a group during the week and we discussed the shots we plan on using in our film. And then we took pictures for our storyboard. By next week we plan on getting our story board, narrative codes and research into title sequences completed.

Prop List (Abigail Odum)

Costume

Cast Notes (Abigail Odum)

These are the character profiles we will be using for our Thriller AS Media coursework

Jessica Brown

Age - 16

Gender - Female

Appearance - Long brown hair, blue eyes, freckles, petite, and 5’1

Mise-en-scene - (Costume) black jeans, black hoody, brown boots

Character info - Jessica is a bubbly teenager, who loves going out with her friends and she performs in theatres. Her father is a very rich man, she lives with her mother and 7 year old brother in a 3 bedroom house.

Melinda Fox

Age - 20

Gender - Female

Appearance - Short black hair, slim build, brown eyes, 5'7

Mise-en-scene - (Costume) Black leggings, white top, black cardigan, boots

Props - Telephone

Character info - Melinda is a friend of David and is willing to help him with his plan as long as she gets a reward in return. She's a heartless person and never feels any remorse for the evil things she does.

David Smith

Age - 23

Gender - Male

Appearance - Short brown hair,brown eyes average build, 5'7

Mise-en-scene - (Costume) Dark jeans, black hoody, black trainers and a mask

Character info - David is a sick and twisted man who seeks revenge after being fired from his job. He looks very frightful and will stop at nothing till he gets what he's after.

Location Notes and Pictures (Billy Camden)

The location that we have chosen to film our 2 minute opening sequence to a thriller is at a house down Douglas Avenue in Harold Wood. We have chosen this location as it is a down a quiet street so noise from main roads will not interfere with the filming, there will also be limited interferance from cars and pedestrians passing.

As the location is also quite secluded it fits in with a thrillers codes and conventions keeping the victim away from a large community. The house also represents a family home so when the protagonist approaches the house she feels safe from danger.

This is the hallway of the house that we will be filming in, again connoting a 'family' feel for the victim.

This is the living room of the loaction, again representing a family feel for the victim with her not suspecting anything about the owner.

This is the dining room of the house we will be filming in, this will probably just be used as a passing room from the kitchen and the living room.

This is the kitchen of the house where we will be filming, this room will only be used for showing the antagonist getting Melinda a glass of water and locking the back door.

Production Logo (Abigail Odum)

 I used the software Photoshop CS2 to create our production logo, I used the letters 'ABB' to represent the beginning of our names. I kept the colours dark as I wanted to represent the theme of our film. I knew how to use the software so I found it fairly easy to create our logo. I'm pleased with how it's turned out and I’m sure it will fit in well with our sequence.

Weekly Updates (Abigail Odum)

Week 3

 We got a lot of things accomplished this week, in our 5-8 lesson we watched last year's preliminary tasks and it gave us an idea of what we had to do. We discussed the shots we were going to use in our preliminary task, and then we teamed up with another group to film the task.

 We encountered some difficulties at the beginning because none of us had any experience with a camera so we had to figure out how to work it gradually by experimenting and trying out different things with the camera. We filmed our preliminary three times before we got it right because we kept breaking the 180 degree rule, however practice makes perfect so after the second time we realised where we were going wrong and we fixed the problem by changing the shots. We finished editing our preliminary task, we created a YouTube account and we uploaded the preliminary task onto there and then we put it in our blog. Also we did an evaluation for the preliminary task.

 In addition we decided to change our thriller sequence title from 'Unsuspected Criminals' to just 'Unsuspected' this is because we thought the title we had before was too obvious and we just didn't like it so we changed it to maintain the mystery. Also we changed our font style to 'Cursive' and we made some changes to the layout of the page to make it look more presentable. As we read through our questionnaire we realised that some of the questions that we had didn't have anything to do with our sequence and wouldn't benefit us in any way so we improved some of the questions.

 We had a meeting during our 5-8 media lesson, we discussed our roles in detail and we shared out the tasks equally, we also talked about problems we may have encountered whilst doing the tasks. Genre research, our treatment, bbfc research and the codes and convention research have been completed. Next week we hope to have our production logo, location notes, cast notes and prop notes on our blog.