production posts

24/1/10 during the lesson we were asked to create do's and don't's to a thriller film; This is to help us in our future filming.


:Do compose original music making sure that it is suitable for the genre.
:Do create interesting text. (so the audience would read it)
:Do create theater of the mind, red herring, enigma and action codes
:Do think about the mise-en-scene

:Don't have to much dialogue
:Don't film in or around school

25/1/10 during the lesson we made a list of what makes a good thriller we then watched 2 opening scenes where we wrote down the conventions of a thriller film.

-Suspension
-Character performance/cast
-Narration/plot
-Action/enigma codes
-Micro elements as the opening scene is more visual then verbal
-Relate to the movie
-Shows theater of the mind
-A problem to solve/guessing game
-Restricted Narration.


What is conventional about flight plan :
-Dark light/grey atmosphere
-theater of the mind about the woman in the station which creates suspension
- noise from the train that had been amplified by sound effects with cross cutting from the train to the woman makes it unexpected for the audience
-vulnerability factor of the woman being isolated
-cross cutting to flash backs show the narration to be non-linear

Whats conventional about panic room;
-Master shot to show the city location
-tense music
-not a lot of back story, this makes enigma codes by showing normality.

The best thriller opening i have seen today is flight plan due to the tension of sudden sound effects and cuts would involves the audience.

29/1/10 what is a film treatment?-:To communicate the main ideas-:To foresee problem-:To plan/make a time table.
A film treatment is:-A full account of a films narrative written in continuous prose (continue writing)-Strong sense of how the film looks -to sell an idea to production executives vivid ideas on character, action and setting generally using only small dialogue.

26/1/10
- As a class we had discussed different kinds of thriller treatment ( this is when the story boards come up with a synopsis to attracted audiences) Redoing treatments helps us to: Know the main ideas (micro aspect , to foresee problems, to plan/make a time table.

27/1/10
- starting our first treatment. I was the first person to do the treatment after she had a more vivid idea of what the film is going to be. However this didn't work during our presentation Mrs Berry and Mrs Khan understood had interest in the ideas however the story plot was to simple for people to get interest in.

29/1/10- was told to redo our treatment. Me and Shapali created a new treatment for the film, because our first positive criticism went bad this had taken longer then needed things like the audience interest and time kept us from doing things such as filming a girl walking from the bus stop to the train station.
1/2/10
-had an extra day to finish off treatment
2/2/10
- we set out a treatment viewing where we would advertise our stories to the rest of the group for advice and insights to their opinions.
3/2/10
-we had finished off our second treatment for the viewing tomorrow; this is for another positive criticism.
5/2/10
-Me and shapali had another production meeting by doing another story and treatment as our previous one was reviewed by our class as too simple and wont keep the audience interested. Due to doing redrafts this help us understand how the producers in the film industry works to create a popular film.
8/2/10
- the group decided to have a small recee this was to find certain areas so then we could save time and report back to the teacher. This was a basic idea of our filming wear abouts.
9/2/10
- we had a production meeting explaining our final draft to our teacher and our story boards this is where we draw different scenes with a brief detail about what will happen. This will be a planning sheet for when we are filming.
10/2/10
- went on a reece trip for our sequence: this is where we asked Shapali if we could film at her home for the opening scene: This was accepted and now on Wednesdays and Fridays we film due to more free time.
11/2/10
- went on a "ask the audience" where we asked different people about there thoughts on thriller: we filmed short clips of random audiences from different ages and gender about their opinion on thriller.
12/2/10
-went to do auditions for our sequence: we had gathered a group of people from different years we then asked them to create a short little place to show their acting skills however this didn't due to their timetables so we decide to use people from our group.