Risk Assessment 3

Risk Assessment 2

Risk Assessment 1

Personal Treatment

Storyline - there are two boys in a playground having a kick about. The ball gets kicked into the garden behind the goal area so one of the boys has to go into the garden and fetch it. He sneaks into the garden but doesn't come back. There are then many point of view shots of the boy being dazed as he's been kidnapped by a strange man who keeps in hostage. The boys friend who he was playing football with is now wondering where he's gone as he goes into the garden but can't see anything and the house looks empty. The man finally releases him a few hours later but his memory is gone and he doesn't know who is friend is or anything that's happened to him.

Setting - the setting is in a park with the next door neighbors garden opposite. There is also a shot of Jack in a red phone box ringing Ben's parents saying he's gone missing into this mysterious house.

Characters - the boy who is kidnapped is going to be played by Ben Oakley and the other  boy is going to be played by Jack Smith. The kidnapper is going to be played by Fraser Diamond.

Visual Style - the majority of the filming is going to be done by Fraser Diamond although we will all contribute when Fraser is being filmed. We are all going to edit the film together.

Group Treatments

Storyline - two boys wake one morning covered in blood after having an overdose of magic mushrooms, they then begin having flashbacks of what happened the night before. These flashbacks involve hallucination to the point they think a man walking a dog in the forests is a murderer, so they end up beating him to death. The title of the story is going to be Come Down!

Setting - the boys wake up in one of the boys bedroom one morning and the flashbacks are set in a forest.

Characters - the boys are going to be played by Jack Smith and Benedict Oakley and the man walking the dog will be played by Fraser Diamond.

Visual Style - The main camera work will be done by Fraser Diamond, and we will all help with editing. We're going to hope for cold overcast weather to give a dark mysterious mood.

Other Credits - after we've done all our filming on the editing stage we're going to have an extremely fast rewind after they wake up in bed. Also, as we can't show violence we're going to have a blackout when the boys kill the man and just do noises of him being beaten to death with the dog barking.

Storyboard

Whilst filming our idea we began to change our ideas as some things weren't working. This may be because we didn't do enough trial shooting so some of our ideas didn't work. Such as taking drugs was difficult as it didn't look realistic at all. We have kept the idea of it being in a wood although its changed to being called 'Watched' as we feel this would bring more suspense for an opening of a film. We use the night mode tool on the camera as point of view shots, we feel this works well and feedback also think this works well. The polaroid idea came about as we wanted to use stills in our film to enhance the name 'Watched'. We put stills in but it didn't give the image that these photo's have been taken by the person watching them, this is why we used to polaroids. 

The film ends with the boys being separated and the man watching them strangling one of the boys. This makes a good ending to the beginning of a film as it makes the viewer want to view further. 

Recce Photo's

 

We took these recce photos as potential places we could do our filming at. All these photos are very mysterious places that would make a good thriller opening. These photos are all taken locally to our college so it is easy to access when we're doing our filming. However, the train line and building site would be difficult to film at as they're dangerous areas.

Shot Sizes

Close up

Medium Close up

Long Shot

Extreme Close up

Action Code

Enigma Code

Over Shoulder Shot

Establishing Shot

Point of View Shot

Continuity Exercise

• This continuity exercise is a job interview.
• Next time when we film the over-shoulder shots we will film the conversation twice so we can edit it moving the angle from one person to another person without having to move the camera all the time. 
• We will also do more filming so we can edit bits out instead of trying to film the complete video with the camera. 

Research into thriller genre

Thriller is a genre of literature, film, and television that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenre is psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. The brightest examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock. The cover-up of important information from the viewer and fight/chase scenes are common methods in all of the thriller subgenres, although each subgenre has its own characteristics and methods. Common methods in crime thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge and kidnappings. More common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique. Common elements in psychological thrillers are mind games, psychological themes, stalking, confinement/death-traps, horror-of-personality, and obsession. Elements such as conspiracy theories, false accusations, paranoia, and sometimes action are common in paranoid thrillers.  Some argue that the thriller genre is simply a pseudonym for the horror genre, both using suspense and atmosphere to cause feelings of dread in their audiences.

 Examples of Thrillers

• Shutter Island
• Hannibal Rising
• Taken
• Knowing
• Righteous Kill

Se7en

Se7en

• The opening credits of Se7en are very inviting. It gives the names of the main characters which include Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. There names are interrupted by a close up Brad Pitt's fingers cutting skin off them using a scalpel, which for the viewers is very disturbing and gives a good insight of what we are to expect for the rest of the film.
• They very cleverly use effects by giving flashing and jittery images in very scruffy writing to agitate the viewers. 
• As we follow on through the opening credits we can begin to see a picture that he is trying to make a journal. We don't get a full image of who is making this journal although we can tell it's a male by his fingers as he has workman like hands with dirt in the nails. The majority of shots used are close ups making the journal an enigma and very mysterious.
• There are some very gruesome images that look like they could be images of people this man has already killed. He also looks to be crossing out names like these are his next targets. 
• The music used is very heavy bass with some jittery sounds almost like running your finger down a violin string. There are also sounds of interference within the heavy music. In the middle of the opening credits the music seems to slow down, but then slowly builds back up to reach a climax as it runs through all the production team. 
• The end of the opening credits is finished by a series of flashing images which you have to be very fast to catch what they say. These are synchronized by the music which speed picks up and ends with some singing.  

Watch the titles - Se7en

Marnie

Marnie - 

• Alfred Hitchcock likes to make an appearance in every film. He makes an appearance in this film at the hotel although he doesn't do or say anything he simply has a walk on.
• The beginning credits music is with a violin. The music sounds very old fashioned and romantic. 
• The beginning credits are showed in a book view. The music and book openings a synchronized. 
• This film is a Universal Studios film.
• The main characters are Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery. 
• There are various shots with the obvious yellow bag. From these shots its clear the bag is relevent and acts as an enigma. 
• The opening scene is very affective as Marnie is walking with no background music and no background noise, all you can hear is the shoes tapping on the floor. The yellow bag is in a close up so they clearly want us to look at it with some intent. 
• Marnie who is played by Tippi Hedren has many identities. We learn this by all her identity cards she has when she runs away with the money she's stolen. We see Marnie wash the brown hair die out of her hair as she is changing he identity again after she stole the money. They use various lighting techniques here with very dramatic music.