Thursday, 14 April 2011

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

From our preliminary task we learnt that before we could participate in filming we had to make a plan of exactly what we wanted to film. We discussed and wrote down what genre we wanted to do and what themes it included. We decided within the group that we wanted it to be of thriller genre with psychological aspects. This accounted for our original sequence, however as we chose to change it due to the shots not producing continuity we decided to add biblical aspects as well as psychological.



We then discussed the locations we wished to use. Seen as we wanted biblical aspects in our film we chose to use a chapel to film our first couple of shots. To broaden the sequence and add more locations we then agreed to use a rural area with lots of space. By using a rural area it conveyed freedom but ironically in this case: the lack of freedom due to the voices in the protagonists mind. The rural location was very far and so proved difficult for us to organize specific times the whole group could get together.



As mentioned previously, we encountered a problem surrounded the continuity of the original shots, leading us to start filming new shots. This wasn't beneficial for us because it required a lot of time. Although, we did keep certain shots the same and only changed the context they were in. We also kept a similar genre a psychological thriller which would engage the audience as it urges them to begin to understand what the psychological aspects are about.

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Pictures of Location

After we filmed our production we took screenshots of the location we used on google maps. We chose the location wisely as we were aware that the location is one of the main elements which informs the reader of the genre of the film. Since our genre was thriller based, we chose to use a slightly old looking building which was based in a spacious area. The old building gave connotations of past victorians times.

In our filming we had several shots of a character over looking the white blacony shown above. One of the shots included a panning shot of the character overlooking the field equipped with a pair of binoculers. Another shot was a medium close up of the character contently watching, which was followed by a close up of the character realising something which remains ambigious to the audience.















The building overlooked a park and a somewhat spacious field; this was benificial for us as we chose to have a park in our scene. The panning shot we took was of the character overlooking the park therefore the park was bound to be in the shot. However, we agreed within the group that if the park didn't look essential in the sequence, we would edit it in Edit cut pro software and develop a more of a field as opposed to a park.

However, seen as though we filmed two seperate sequences, these pictures are based upon our first location. We keep the somewhat same style but the house and enviroment we used createed an even more eerie atmosphere.

Our second location was in the extremely rural area of lyme. It had very spacious fields which we used to create the notion that there was an extremely anxious girl left alone. We used a longshot as she was walking steadily across the field. At this point the reader was left ambigious to the fact that she was either being followed by anothe character or her own mindset was playing tricks on her.


Another aspect of the location was the house in which we used. It was a very large cottage looking house named Boothbank cottage The house was equipped with a securely closed gate which had the sign "Guard Dogs-Beware" promidently labbelled on the gate. The use of this quiet, reserved house and locked gate created a feeling that the anxious girl was closed off from any form of saviour from what she was being chased by.






Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Initial Shot List (Take Two) After developing our first initial shot list and shooting the shots, it became apparant that the shots did not thuruly fit together which led us to develop a second shot list in order to create another opening sequence. We chose to do this as our first opening sequence failed to meet our expectations of what we wished to achieve. However, we did keep certain aspects the same- for example: the genre remained a thriller and we chose to keep certain shots. ie- tracking shot of scenery and close up of moving feet.





  • Title "Pefect Pictures presents"




  • Titlte of the film upon black backgroud




  • Panning out shot from biblical picture - lands in a medium shot of girl sat in front of it




  • Long shot of girl walking from being seated down the stairs




  • Girl gets half way and phone rings - Medium shot of girl answering phone




  • Over the shoulder shot of phone showing "Unknown Number"




  • Resumed medium shot of girl speaking on phone




  • Medium shot of girl walking down stairs




  • Medium close up of girl opening and walking through chapel door




  • Long shot of girl walking towards alter




  • Establishing shot which opens followed by extreme long shot of the scenery & girl approaching




  • Long shot from behind girl heading to stye/stepping stones (still showing the surrounding scenery)




  • Close up of girls feet stepping onto stepping stone/stye




  • Over the shoulder medium shot showing house and gate in background, girl heading towards road/house




  • Over the shoulder long shot showing girl waving/shouting for help from the car




  • Over the shoulder long shot opposite way showing car driving off




  • Extreme close up of girl crying for help




  • Medium close up of "Boothbank Cottage" sign, also showing girls shadow hovering over




  • Insert shot of "Boothbank Cottage" sign




  • Medium shot of girl walking to gate




  • Continued medium shot of girl trying to open gate




  • Worms eye view of girls foot begginging to climb over fence




  • Medium shot of girl over fence




  • Long shot of girl walking to house to gain help




  • Close up of girl knocking on house door




  • Tracking Shot of girl walking away from house door




  • Long shot of girl walking towards girl #2 standing by horse




  • Close up of girl requesting help from girl #2