For our main task we have chosen do do a Thriller. We felt this was a good one to chose because it is quite a broad genre therefore our storyline would not be too limited. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, we have chosen to do this but also have some slow paced takes to build up tension and create binary opposition between our two characters (in which one is a male the other female). We have also chosen to add a cliffhanger in at the end of our two minutes to conform to the genre.
We have had influences from some Thriller films such as Psycho. For example we have a small shower scene. In Psycho this was the film's pivotal scene, and one of the most famous scenes in cinema history. All though this is not a huge part of our film opening and is not pivotal, it still demonstrates the genre we are conforming to.
Our film also includes quite a stereotypical follwing scene which appears in many thrillers.
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Sunday, 7 December 2008
Film Pitch
This is a short pitch in order to sell our film and an audience.
Pitch:
This feature length thriller, set in the streets of Oxford, tells us of Max Furtado and his wild, obsessive grieving for Claudia Jones, the woman he once loved and killed. Will he be able to face the trials of murder, or will he hide forever, planning his next victim?
Pitch:
This feature length thriller, set in the streets of Oxford, tells us of Max Furtado and his wild, obsessive grieving for Claudia Jones, the woman he once loved and killed. Will he be able to face the trials of murder, or will he hide forever, planning his next victim?
Film synopsis
Lizzy and I have chosen to do do the first two minutes of a thriller for our final task. Together we have written a synopsis on what the whole film would be if we were to make it...
Synopsis:
Max Furtado is a 31-year-old publicist living the simple life, but wishing he had more…
When Max meets uptown girl Claudia Jones he is devastated that she will not return his love. He decides if he can’t have her, no one will. So one dark December night he murders her, only to instantly find himself thrown into a mad state of denial and regret.
He finds himself walking the streets looking for anyone that looks like her, only to find this is not a cure for grieve, it makes him madder by the day and he is soon labelled Oxford’s modern day ‘Jack the Ripper’. As his psychotic murders increase, more and more police are out looking for him. Every woman is in fear of her life; no mother daughter or sister is safe.
Chief Samuel is made head of the case; if he doesn’t manage to find Max his job could be at stake. And when his wife goes missing, it gets personal. Samuel works day and night in his search for Max but he starts to struggle to look after his scared 3-year-old boy as well as juggle the case.
One night he gets a mysterious phone call. A deep voice tells him to meet him at a shadowed remote alley way a couple of miles away. Samuel jumps into the car and races down the streets at full speed, he gets there in 5 minutes and jumps out of car. He finds him self face to face with Max and, behind him, tied up to a lamppost, is his wife covered in blood.
Max demands that if he lets Samuel have his wife back then Samuel should let him go free. Chief Samuel is torn, for he wants his wife home and safe but he needs Max caught, When Samuel runs to set his wife free, Max pulls out a knife on him. They get into a rough fight full of blood and gore, but soon Max loses strength.
Samuel releases his wife and quickly drives home with her back to his son who has been left alone. He calls his fellow policemen to get to the scene of crime where Max is lying powerless. But when all the policemen get there Max is no where to be seen, but as they walk back through the grave yard they see him laid over Claudia Jones’s grave with a knife through his heart.
Synopsis:
Max Furtado is a 31-year-old publicist living the simple life, but wishing he had more…
When Max meets uptown girl Claudia Jones he is devastated that she will not return his love. He decides if he can’t have her, no one will. So one dark December night he murders her, only to instantly find himself thrown into a mad state of denial and regret.
He finds himself walking the streets looking for anyone that looks like her, only to find this is not a cure for grieve, it makes him madder by the day and he is soon labelled Oxford’s modern day ‘Jack the Ripper’. As his psychotic murders increase, more and more police are out looking for him. Every woman is in fear of her life; no mother daughter or sister is safe.
Chief Samuel is made head of the case; if he doesn’t manage to find Max his job could be at stake. And when his wife goes missing, it gets personal. Samuel works day and night in his search for Max but he starts to struggle to look after his scared 3-year-old boy as well as juggle the case.
One night he gets a mysterious phone call. A deep voice tells him to meet him at a shadowed remote alley way a couple of miles away. Samuel jumps into the car and races down the streets at full speed, he gets there in 5 minutes and jumps out of car. He finds him self face to face with Max and, behind him, tied up to a lamppost, is his wife covered in blood.
Max demands that if he lets Samuel have his wife back then Samuel should let him go free. Chief Samuel is torn, for he wants his wife home and safe but he needs Max caught, When Samuel runs to set his wife free, Max pulls out a knife on him. They get into a rough fight full of blood and gore, but soon Max loses strength.
Samuel releases his wife and quickly drives home with her back to his son who has been left alone. He calls his fellow policemen to get to the scene of crime where Max is lying powerless. But when all the policemen get there Max is no where to be seen, but as they walk back through the grave yard they see him laid over Claudia Jones’s grave with a knife through his heart.
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Evalutation of our preliminary task.
Evaluation of Preliminary task
Before we do our official AS task we have had to do a preliminary exercise. This was a continuity task involving filming and editing, it had to demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse/shot and the 180-degree rule.
Together, Lizzy Morey, Sam Johnson and Kate Roby and I put together a filmed a short film of:
· A character opening a door.
· Crossing the room.
· Sitting down on a chair opposite another character.
· The characters exchanging a couple of lines of dialogue.
We filmed this in the school with Sam and me as the actors. We then uploaded it onto the Apple Macs and used the imovie software for editing. The sound effects and end credits were all off imovie too.
There were positives on our filming for example it went well and we managed to get it done quite quickly in one lesson, this meant filming wasn’t disrupted by waiting for the next lesson.
We also had good light to do the filming in, therefore the light balance wasn’t disrupted when we were filming our match on action (hand on door handle), shot reverse shot (line exchanges) and keeping the 180 degree rule.
But there were some negatives too. For example we were new to the apple macs, therefore it took us quite a long time to upload the video and it was quite difficult to use the software. Although in the end we got through this by practicing with the software.
Also our last shot had to be cut quite short because our filming was not completely straight, therefore we cut that out. Also though this is not a huge problem, it is quite noticeable
Before we do our official AS task we have had to do a preliminary exercise. This was a continuity task involving filming and editing, it had to demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse/shot and the 180-degree rule.
Together, Lizzy Morey, Sam Johnson and Kate Roby and I put together a filmed a short film of:
· A character opening a door.
· Crossing the room.
· Sitting down on a chair opposite another character.
· The characters exchanging a couple of lines of dialogue.
We filmed this in the school with Sam and me as the actors. We then uploaded it onto the Apple Macs and used the imovie software for editing. The sound effects and end credits were all off imovie too.
There were positives on our filming for example it went well and we managed to get it done quite quickly in one lesson, this meant filming wasn’t disrupted by waiting for the next lesson.
We also had good light to do the filming in, therefore the light balance wasn’t disrupted when we were filming our match on action (hand on door handle), shot reverse shot (line exchanges) and keeping the 180 degree rule.
But there were some negatives too. For example we were new to the apple macs, therefore it took us quite a long time to upload the video and it was quite difficult to use the software. Although in the end we got through this by practicing with the software.
Also our last shot had to be cut quite short because our filming was not completely straight, therefore we cut that out. Also though this is not a huge problem, it is quite noticeable
Monday, 17 November 2008
AS Preliminary Task
This is the preliminary task we did for Media. We had simple intructions to make a short film.
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Photographic storyboard
As part of the preliminary task for our media practical we have to do a storyboard of a short scene. I have uploaded it here.
Thursday, 9 October 2008
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