Production Treatment for Main Task & Planning

We made sure that the planning of our production was accurate therefore we even checked the weather, fortunatly for us we had unusual sun. This really benefited as we had no struggle in keeping everything dry, ie: equipment etc. However on the contary the rain could have infact made out production appear more earie and mysteriouse due to it being a thriller.

The opening of a short thriller based film.

Duration - The length of the film is 2minutes.

Audience - Since our sequence is of thriller genre our audience would tend to be people who enjoy getting a thrill out of specific movies. As thriller movies tend to contain great suspense it would not appeal to middle aged woman who like calm romantic comedy's, as these genres contrast immensely. Our film also contains psychological elements which requires the order to make a somewhat psychlogical anaylysis. This could compare to the 2006 mystery thriller "The Da Vinici Code." Such elements are expressed through the protaganist getting flash backs from his past. They remain ambigious to the audience until a title actually informs them that "[his] past will always haunt [him]". The gender of our audience cannot be generalized because from my research (a questionnaire) both females and males enjoy thriller films. The age of our target audience would range from 15 + since the content of our film may be considered too psychologically disturbing for a younger person to comprehend.

Resume- An overall outline of our opening sequence begins firstly with a book placed upon an old table, the book is closed but is soon opened by a hand which is wearing a black leather glove. The owner of the hand is unknown at this point and there is no way of knowing whether they are male or female. As the book is opened the pages flicker until it falls onto another open page which consists of old cut out newspaper headings and slightly obscure photos. The presentation of a wall covered in the same newspaper headings and the previously mentioned photos is now presented. The wall is in a dark room, meaning the newspaper headings and photos are only just visible. A window is positioned next to the distinct wall. The owner of the previously mentioned hand is standing in front of the window holding a polaroid camera. The gender of the person remains unknown as their face is not shown. They are dressed in a bulky black coat which also confounds the audience as to whether they are male or female. The polaroid camera is directed towards a young girl playing with her bike, this can be seen by looking out of the window. The young girl rides off with her bike and is followed by the unknown character. As she is riding off she drops her bracelet which is then slyly picked up and handled by the anonymous person.

Suggested Elements-
Costume

Black gloves/Black duffel coat to disguise the protagonists identity.

• Red brogues to make the audience distinctly remember such shoes - associating them with the anonymous character.





• A girlie outfit to insinuate vulnerability and innocence of the little girl.

Props -

• A polaroid camera which the anonymous character uses to take bizarre photos.





• A child's bike





• A girls bracelet





• Old cut out newspaper headlines





• Old photos which are placed onto a wall covered in newspaper headlines

Key Locations -

• A house which overlooks a park





• A child's park





• A big house consisting of a large window

Recording Days- As a group we intend to spend three of our media lessons filming, these lessons are based on a Monday afternoon and a Wednesday morning, this would equate to three hours filming. We are fully aware that this sort of filming task requires effort and commitment from each member of the group, therefore we have decided that we may have to work outside of our normal lesson time. e.g- after college hours or weekends. We have also allocated time for the post production which includes the editing and insertion of transitions, along with various other features such as special effects. We have estimated this to take no longer than four lessons which equals to four hours.

Initial Shot List

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  Medium shot of a book whereby the pages are flicking, until it opens on a page

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  Black titles showing names of people involved

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  Sprinkled effect leading into next shot
  

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  Close up of the page it landed on, which consists of images of children

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  Slowly pulling out of the close up shot into a long shot, revealing the mans hand placed on the book, trailing his fingers over the images

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  Pan Shot moving towards a wall of disturbing images then continuing until the pan shot reaches a window

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  Over the shoulder shot of the man taking a picture out of the window – through the window we see a young girl with her bike

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  Zoom into the young girl playing with her bike and dropping her bracelet

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  Close up of bracelet and mans hand reaching for the bracelet

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  Pulling out of the close up – starting at feet panning upwards to show his hand holding the bracelet

Opening sequence -

After analyzing the opening sequence of Silence of the Lambs, we took it upon ourselves to look at another specific opening sequence. The sequence we chose to analyze further was the opening of "Se7en" which is of thriller genre; also containing horror and neo-noir elements. The sequence consisted of 70 close ups of disturbing pictures such as murder victims and murder weapons, this delivered an eerie atmosphere which also set the tone and delivered a horrific experience.











We benefited greatly from looking at this opening sequence as we wanted to base our main task on the style of Se7en. We was firstly shown a close up of a book while the pages were flicking, that was followed by a blank black background that delivered certain credits such as the names of people involved. A medium birds eye view close up of a disturbing image was then shown with created a disturbing atmosphere so early on in the sequence. Non diegetic background noise is played over the shots to create a further eerie atmosphere for the audience. Certain effects were used in this sequence which we hoped to use in our main task, these effects included quickly cutting from one shot to another and a sort of blurry effect.