DRAFTS FOR FILM

This is my first draft of my thriller film where we were on our first trip to the college to start editing, it is the shortest of our draft as we were very inexperienced and didnt know how to do a lot of the editing techniques, seeing as ollie a boy in my group has done lots of editing before we let him take the raines and let him give it his best shot to give our opening sequence a start.

this is our second draft and even after one masterclass on editing there was a massive improvement in the techniques and we created a pretty much complete opening sequence which only needed a few tweeks, we mainly focused on getting over the two minuet time that we had to meet and once we had done this our main focus was on making the finishing touches to the film.

the main thing we were planning on changing was adding a security camera shot with a high angle, this was the highl;ight of our filming and editing as we were the only people to think of an idea that complex and once it payed off we felt like our movie had an advantage over the rest, here is a photo of thisn security cmaera shot.

WORKING ON OUR SHOT LIST

This is a post where i will be showing you the shot list we have created, a shot list is to help us when we were out filming for our film but in my opinion i did not find it useful as i worked better with the story board as its a visual aid, here is a photo of our shot list. it isnt fully complete as we didnt know what shots we were 100% going to use after the first 10 as we prefered to improvise and twist the shotrs to improve them.

DIFFICULTIES WHEN FILMING AND EDIDTING

In this post I will be talking about the difficulties that our group faced when we had to plan and film our opening sequence.
Firstly, we were faced with a problem in our first few media lessons where two of our group members dropped out of the group and the class overall, by this time we had already set jobs for when it came to the research of finding the right plan for our film, so between a group of three we had to do group work set out for 5 people to manage, so 2 people had to do more and 1 person had the easier route.
Secondly, we were challenged when it came to casting for our opening sequence as we had to choose one person from our group to be the main protagonist, because this was such a big role none of us wanted the responsibility so we had to go to our teacher and ask her who would best suit the role of the stalker and she chose Rhys for his hight and stature.
Finally, our biggest problem was when finding time to film after school times, this was a problem because we couldn't always film during school times as we didn't always have the same free lessons as we picked different subjects and had to keep up in those as well,  also outside of school it was hard because I had work and driving lessons and so did my other group members.

TARGET AUDIENCE

In this post I will be talking about our decisions on choosing the correct target audience and creating the right story board and camera techniques to meet this decision.
When discussing what was the right choice my group peers both agreed with me as I wanted to target our age group as teenager, I though that this would be the right choice as we know firsthand what people our age like, me personally when watching a thriller shot I like to see exciting and unique shots that you don't usually see, so baring this in mind we chose to create a CCTV shot with jump cuts giving the impression of a lag in the film, if that was me I would be drawn into watching the rest of the film for more shots like that. Here is a photo of this CCTV shot in our opening sequence.

LOCATION OF FILM

In this post I will be talking about our choices of locations in our film, we based our film around only 2 locations but used them effectively as we made them seem like different locations.

The first location was a stationary cupboard that was part of the media departments, in this room we set up in one corner of the room with our murderboard and a desk lamp providing as a spotlight to make an eerie ambience, we set up the 'stalkers' stationary millimetre perfect to show his OLD. Here is a photo showing our murderboard in the corner of the stationary cupboard, with the spotlight on it.

The second location we chose was at Pencoed train station 10 minutes up the road from our school, we ustalised both platforms and used them in the day and night, even though it was the same location the different lighting made it seem completely different, there were no troubles when it came to accessing this location because it is used by the public on a daily basis free as charge, the constant flow of trains going through platform fitted perfectly with the stalkers obsession of trains. Here is a photo of this location in the day and in the night.

We chose these locations because they were easy to get too during school times as one was in the school and one was by the school so we could get to these freely with no problems.

PROP LIST

In this post I will be talking about the props that we used in our film and behind the scenes of shooting our film.
• Sony camcorder with 40x zoom,
• 2x tripods (1 small and 1 large),
• murder board with photos of the victims on,
• scissors, pens and plastic gloves (stalkers belongings)
• desk lamp to help with the lighting,

We did not have many props and extras in our film because the actors and their characters tell the storyline for themselves and do not need anything to help them on their way.

WORKING ON OUR STORY BOARD

In this post I will be talking about our first attempt of creating a story board for our opening sequence. On this draft we sketched a small drawing of what the shot will be, then we gave the shot a name with a brief description of the shot, also we used our media terminology by saying what angle shot we used and what type it was. Once we had done a few drawings to make a shorter version of a story board to start we labelled our drawings in order of where the sequence will go.
Before we started creating our story board we disggussed all of the possible shots we could chose and threw them all into a mind map to find which ones would be more effective, this brainstorming session was good because it helped us narrow down what shops would be suitable and which shots wouldn't work , for example we had a certain shot that we were going to chose primarily for the mis en scene but because of this mind map we realised that the shot didn't match with any other shots.
Once we had established all the shots that we wanted to use and the ones we didn't we created a final storyboard that we took out every time we went filming so we could look for a guideline, there were a few times that we didn't follow because we thought of something better on our feet.