Initial Ideas
*.My group and I have been thinking about ideas to include In our two minute film. We are quite positive to do thriller/horror. This category is a good choice I think as it is quite easy to do, but effective so we can get as many marks as possible
*.For the music we are thinking about having a very creepy themed music which will be played throughout the film as we are not going to use dialogue. We want the music to fit in with each part of the film so it will vary depending on the part of the film. For example if the scene is very tense and scary the music will alter according to this and be very tense.
*.One of the first ideas we came up with was a bath scene when she goes under the water and drowns; we got this idea from the Britney Spears video (Every time)
This idea related to the thriller/horror theme as it could give suspense to the plot. The music would also give the audience that extra edge.
For the first shot we’ve decided use an establishing shot of Daniele’s front house. We decided to use Danielle’s house as the location for the set because her house is big, practical and easy location to film on. Danielle also has big gates which creek so this would be very effective for our film. I got this idea from the movie ‘drag me to hell’ as the first establishing shot is good.
Here the main characters would live then a man dressed in all black would enter the front of the building through the gate. The squeaking noises from the gate would give a creepy effect giving suspense.
In the first scene the camera would first pan around the front of the house then zooming closer in to the front gates when the open.
The second scene would be inside the house; so the camera will cut away from outside into inside. Then will show the girl getting ready to have a bath and her lighting candles around the bath, a close up of her taking off the dressing gowned so we can only see her shoulders and head from behind, then a close up of the dressing gown on the floor as she steps out of it.
After the girl is shown getting into the bath you see the man in black walking up the stairs. The camera will be behind him so the audience will not see his face. Then a close up of his hand will be shown as he will be wearing red gloves; as he is all in black we need a bold colour to show he is the dominant one in this scene. This creates tension as the audience do not know who it is which makes the plot more mysterious.
From the part of the scene where the man is walking up the stairs my group and I have research other films and found a scene similar to ours. We’ve decided to base our match on action stair sequence on the shots from the film ‘Jane Eyre’ as we loved the effect of a high angle shot and a close up through the banisters; this also shows how the man is in more dominant as he about to commit a crime.
The next part we are thinking of the girl in the bath unaware of the man, then a quick cut to make it scary of the mans silhouette holding a knife through the shower curtain, this may be in slow motion to add suspense and tension.
Furthermore we are going to have quick cut to the girl covered in blood in the bath and slowly going under the water, this will show the audience that she is dead and should hopefully be scary to watch. Again this come from the idea of the Britney Spears video ‘every time'
As an ending shot we are going to have the knife drip blood onto one of the candles putting out the light. At this stage this is just a rough outline of the film with other ideas to come. As we will be filming in the next few weeks we need to make our ideas much stronger and also think about getting a in-depth story board completed as this will make filming a lot easier.
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