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Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Scripting Process
SCRIPT ONE:
SCRIPT TWO:
THE VISITOR - SCRIPT ONE
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SCRIPT TWO:
THE VISITOR - FINAL SCRIPT
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Actors and Decisions
the three people we had in our first few scenes where the mother, the childminder and the child, the actors are as follows:
Mother: Louisa Campbell
Louisa is one of our team members mothers who also lives conviniently close to the school making it easy to shoot her scenes on weekends as the school is a good place for everyone to meet up out of hours to arrange to shoot our film. Shooting in Louisas house meant that as the person with the most appearances she could be made most comfortable in her own home and it would also be easy to reshoot scenes should we need to.
Childminder: Melissa Appiah
Melissa being a close friend of all team members was around alot whist we were all talking about themes of our production from the very beginning and demonstrated a keen intrest in helping us by taking part in our film. we scripted melissa as the childminder because she goes against the typical connotations of a peadofile i.e a young pretty woman. she also attends Graveney making it easy for us to get hold of her at lunchtimes and afterschool to shoot her scenes.
Child: Rhys Simms
Playing the child is Rhys Simms, a pupil attending our school and the brother of a team member. We decided to do this so that we could avoid using another young child who may have felt rather akward whilst filming not knowing any of the team very well at all. however Rhys, being the confident child that he is- made things alot easier for us to get on with.
Mother: Louisa Campbell
Louisa is one of our team members mothers who also lives conviniently close to the school making it easy to shoot her scenes on weekends as the school is a good place for everyone to meet up out of hours to arrange to shoot our film. Shooting in Louisas house meant that as the person with the most appearances she could be made most comfortable in her own home and it would also be easy to reshoot scenes should we need to.
Childminder: Melissa Appiah
Melissa being a close friend of all team members was around alot whist we were all talking about themes of our production from the very beginning and demonstrated a keen intrest in helping us by taking part in our film. we scripted melissa as the childminder because she goes against the typical connotations of a peadofile i.e a young pretty woman. she also attends Graveney making it easy for us to get hold of her at lunchtimes and afterschool to shoot her scenes.
Child: Rhys Simms
Playing the child is Rhys Simms, a pupil attending our school and the brother of a team member. We decided to do this so that we could avoid using another young child who may have felt rather akward whilst filming not knowing any of the team very well at all. however Rhys, being the confident child that he is- made things alot easier for us to get on with.
Prop List
When thinking about what props would be used we reffered our storyboard and thought about everything included, the objects listed will be used in our film:
-Google maps print out
-tea light candle
-candle lighter
-glass (filled with "wine")
-pen
-sketchbook complete with images of child
-scissors
-glue
-pencil
-car
-Google maps print out
-tea light candle
-candle lighter
-glass (filled with "wine")
-pen
-sketchbook complete with images of child
-scissors
-glue
-pencil
-car
Location shots and decisions
Our final location decision is 146 Ribblesdale Road, this is because it is two roads away from school which makes re-shooting and changing shot decisions later on in the process a whole lot easier, also on the days that we had scheduled filming the house was free so the actors could get comfortable and have no worries about being in somebody elses home as we shot the mother scenes and the childminder/child scenes seperately for actor convinience.
It is also the home of our mother and actor who it would have been the hardest to relocate so shooting her in the comfort of her own house was alot easier to arrange.
Right to Left : Direct view of the house, Satellite view of the house both via Google Maps.
It is also the home of our mother and actor who it would have been the hardest to relocate so shooting her in the comfort of her own house was alot easier to arrange.
Right to Left : Direct view of the house, Satellite view of the house both via Google Maps.
Monday, 14 March 2011
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Top 10 Thriller Movies
1. Pulp fiction '94
2. Inception '10
3. The dark knight '08
4. Goodfellaz '90
5. Fight club '99
6. Rear Window '54
7. Psycho '60
8. Usual Suspects '95
9. the silence of the lambs '91
10. SE7EN '95
these are the top 10 thrillers of all time according to http://www.imdb.com/chart/thriller. we looked very closely at the opening two minutes of some of these films to notify the main conventions of them all and decide which conventions the most successful thrillers use in the beginning of their movies.
2. Inception '10
3. The dark knight '08
4. Goodfellaz '90
5. Fight club '99
6. Rear Window '54
7. Psycho '60
8. Usual Suspects '95
9. the silence of the lambs '91
10. SE7EN '95
these are the top 10 thrillers of all time according to http://www.imdb.com/chart/thriller. we looked very closely at the opening two minutes of some of these films to notify the main conventions of them all and decide which conventions the most successful thrillers use in the beginning of their movies.
Monday, 7 March 2011
Music Choices.
" Non diagetic sound: CHILDS LULLABY IMMEDIATELY STARTS PLAYING "
this is what we have included for the very opening of our script. when looking for the lullaby we decided that we wanted it to lull the viewers as well as creep them out without giving to much away from the very beggining. looking through youtube, i typed in keywords like 'childrens lullaby' which gave me lots of videos with children singing nursery rhymes in harmony. this wasnt exactly what we were looking for so we altered the keywords. when thinking more directly about the sound we wanted to produce to think up a more affective key word we typed in 'ballerina music box' and we got some videos that were more along the lines of what we were looking for. under this search word we came across this one:
This one was more accurate than the ones that we had in mind but then thinking about it in conjunction with the feature peice on screen we decided that it wasnt exactly what we were looking for and carried on our search, and again; we altered the search word to 'babys bedtime lullaby' and this was what we found.
this one became our final decision as it was exactly what we were looking for. it has a little creepy element and could easily creep out an audience but at the same time lull the less expecting viewers. we liked this one because of the infantary element of the music. this sound is linked directly to that of a childrens bedroom/bed and thats exactly where our 'thriller' problem is based.
this is what we have included for the very opening of our script. when looking for the lullaby we decided that we wanted it to lull the viewers as well as creep them out without giving to much away from the very beggining. looking through youtube, i typed in keywords like 'childrens lullaby' which gave me lots of videos with children singing nursery rhymes in harmony. this wasnt exactly what we were looking for so we altered the keywords. when thinking more directly about the sound we wanted to produce to think up a more affective key word we typed in 'ballerina music box' and we got some videos that were more along the lines of what we were looking for. under this search word we came across this one:
This one was more accurate than the ones that we had in mind but then thinking about it in conjunction with the feature peice on screen we decided that it wasnt exactly what we were looking for and carried on our search, and again; we altered the search word to 'babys bedtime lullaby' and this was what we found.
this one became our final decision as it was exactly what we were looking for. it has a little creepy element and could easily creep out an audience but at the same time lull the less expecting viewers. we liked this one because of the infantary element of the music. this sound is linked directly to that of a childrens bedroom/bed and thats exactly where our 'thriller' problem is based.
Titling Practise
When exploring which titles to use i looked at two different types, over image and over black. i think that the over black will look alot better of our one, because we are squeezing quite alot in- and we need it to happen quickly.
we decided to put our most famous actor first, followed by the director and title name and then scroll the rest of the actors from the most involved to the most little involved. this follows the norms of alot of the other famous thriller movies.
((((POST THRILLER TITLING TIMES HERE ON FMG))))
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