SET DESIGN

Storyboard

                                      

  This is story board of what we going todo in our thriller. First of all it will start with
- the guy come into the flat and turn on the TV.
-The TV first shows the music channel.
-He then change the channel to extreme sport.
- Then he change it to news.

- He takes of his jacket and hang it on the wall
- The shot then cut into the T.V showing the  
interview.
- Then it cut back to the flat again. Showing the guy walking to the table and put the flower in the bin.
- He then open the water bottle and pour it into his cup.

- The shot then cut back to the TV
- Close up shot of the news reader remind everyone to take the pill
- Abit overlap in time, cut back to the man watching  T.V.
-Close up of his hand taking the pill out.
- Mid shot of him taking the pill. 



 

-Close up of his face taking the pill.
-Big close up of his mouth
-He drinking water from the cup
- The tiltle shows at the bottom of the cup which make it look like pill.

Casting

Audience research

Pilot feed back

In today lesson, we show our pilot to other people in the class and this is the feed back we get.
- People don't understand how riots and drugs how do they put together. The idea of the thriller is  confusing.
- Lack of variety of shots, stuck with the same shot, boring
- Should try editing between outside and inside the T.V.
- People don't understand the story.
- The shadow doesn't work. It is too confusing.
- Should cut off the riot because it confuse the audience
-The audience cannot tell that it is set in the future.

This comments actually helps a lot! Now we have some idea how to develop my thriller
First of all in our real one the techniques and the set will looks a lot better so what we have to do is
- Creates some more shot therefore there is more variety and also it is not too boring for the audience to  watch
- The Idea of inside and out side T.V. shot is a really good idea. We should use that as well.
- The riot at first should be explain clearly so people not confuse
- Set and props details have to sell the point that we are in 2020 or other alternative put 2020 on the  screen.





This is the photo of the focus group.
I actually learn a lot from this lesson. Both from commenting on other people works and listen to other people comments. It is useful to listen to other people comments and develop from it. Also be able to pick up and describe what we like and don't like in other people film is useful as well. I think this is another skill that I will be develop through making thriller. :)

Prop research

COSTUME

Set and props

Filming an example

In today lesson we have been filming an example of our thriller and unfortunately we face a lot of problems :( First of all we have to record the video that we going to use as a channel on the T.V. and put it all together. It seems to be a very easy task but it take longer than I think because of the technology problems like transfer the video from Iphone to computer and from computer to another computer and to the projector. Sometimes I wish I can do everything by my hands like chops or the video up by scissor and put it together by glue. 
That is alot easier to do (for me) 

Next we have to film the news bit. We got all the dialogue sort out. However, we have no location to film it so we end up film it outside because there was too noisy inside the room and because our crew is not a professional news reader we end up laughing instead of reading news so we choose an alternative method of doing voiceover over one of the BBC news clip. It works better I guess (still look a bit funny but better than the outdoor news reading)

So..we put all the clips together and put it on the projector. Now another problem comes. The projector is too small so we cannot really film the whole body so the camera is too close and we cannot really see anything and it doesn’t look like what it should lool like. To be honest with you I feel like giving up but I guess when we fix all of the problem we face now it is going to be better in the real one.....       
 

News Research

In the beginning of our story we going to use the news to set up background of the time we are in. This is some of the research we made for our future T.V.

FINAL THRILLER IDEA

Finally, Finally, Finally This is our final idea!! I know I have so many blog called “New thriller idea” but this is our last one the coolest one of all our thriller idea and here we go I will explain to you what it is.

Our thriller first came from the talk with Phil and Matt the other day. From that talk we come up with many ideas but the one that we really like is about the “New world” may be about 10-20 years in the future when something in the world becomes different. This is the mind map of our ideas.

Then we looking at what’s going on in the world and Anna found this interesting news of Antibiotic resistance.

So we start to think that what’s going to happen when human becomes very weak and therefore human life depends on antibiotics and pills. What if these pill becomes less and less effective and the supply of medicine becomes limited, this world going to be in chaos!!

So we look at the opening sequence of the movie “Children of the men”   

We can see that in this title sequence they use the news to set up background of the story. In the last scene after the explotion there is a picture of women holding her own arm casually. This is shocking but effectively portrays a picture of the future world.

Now we know where we are going at last!!! I believe that we going to make this thriller great  

:)

New Idea again!

We has been looking at the news lately and we come up with couple of idea for our thriller.
One of them is about over load population of the world as the world reach number of 7 billion people. From this we think that what if the food run out. This bring us to our idea!

The story will be about the family who try to survive during the time that food running out. The government also want to reduce population so they try to get rid of people.

This is the storyboard



We also look at other ideas as well such as kidnapping. What we are doing so far is to generate as much idea as possible from the news so we can pick the best one.

I really hope our thriller going well and hopefully we can pick our final idea soon. : )

TALK IT OUT

New Thriller idea

Today in the lesson we were brainstorming again to find the perfect idea for our thriller. This time we used news and existing thriller to brainstorm. One of the idea we really interested in is bank heist. We are really inspired by the thriller Reservoir Dog and Strange Day.

 

We came up with the idea of bank heist. Briefly this is the whole story.....
5 men rob the bank together then one of them run away with the money, hide it somewhere and died. Four men that left have to fight and find the money.

The character will be 5 different men with different experties working together

What will happen in the title sequence is the montage of 5 characters carrying their individual task in the heist.

It will start off with computer screen with computer language then turn around and meet the first character the computer guy.

The scene then change to another big tough man cleaning his gun.

Then it will change into another guy putting a cup off coffee on the blueprint of the building with all the marks on.

The scene cut to another guy in car parking

Then the scene cut to the last guy preparing an empty bag to put money in. The title shows inside the bag then the bag close.

Our idea also inspired by title sequence of Snatch as well



What we like about snatch is the style of editing. What we want to do is to do a slow motion during introducing each character, I think it going to be awesome!

Thriller Ideas

In the lesson today, we watched the title sequence of Momento and we really like it.

We like the way this title sequence confuses the audience's mind by reversing the shot. This gives us an idea to makes our similar to this by visually confusing the audience and then slowly reveal the story slowly for example the scene could start with extra close up of the section of something and then slowly zoom out to reveal the prop, the location and the character. The idea of visually confuse the audience really interest me and I think it will apply well with our thriller.

Title sequence analysis

                                                                                

Title structure-Order of credits

In today lesson I learned about structure of title sequences this is 4 basics title structures that I learned today. 

Pitching Ideas 1

Today, we had our first idea pitch. This really open up my view and this is the response our group get today 

Our first idea about Art 
- It is difficult to do because it will be a massive job to    create a set or find a location to film it.

The second idea about wake up in the hospital is quite nice even though it is quite typical but if we change a bit of it for example different places, different time or put more stuff in it this idea could work 

The last one my idea of twins it turn out to be quite typical idea also it is quite hard to conveys the audience to believe in two minutes. 

For me I think the second idea is quite strong and if we work a bit more on that and change some factor it can be really good. However our group now thinking about new fresh ideas as well.

Thriller Idea

This is one of the idea I developed from the brain storm last week. This idea is about the twins.

Developing thriller ideas

In today lesson we used interesting news to get some inspiration for our thriller ideas. This open up our view point from our own little world to see the bigger world. This is some result from the brainstorm.

Prelim

Watching Documentary

Watching Documentary about another aspects of movies other from watching it as an audience, today we learned to watch it from the producer perspective and this is what I learned today...

The first five minutes of the movie is really important. In the opening it is really important to make sure the movie grab the audiences. It is hard to do the good opening, because you have to give them a little information which enough to make them curious but not too much that makes they know the whole movie. In the director perspective it is important to know what going to do next. They might have to take risk of not answer the question at all but that is the whole point of the movie.

Because the audience make a very quick judgement on movie so in the opening scene it is not only have to grab the audience attention it also have to establish a bit of the character and a bit of the movie therefore the audience knows what kind of movie they going to watch.

There is two ways in doing the opening sequence either shock the audience or another way is to settle the audience and leads them in to the movie. This is a typical opening scene that we often see in the movie. 

Start with Establishing shot to show the location >>> then building >>> then window >>> then pass receptionist to the set>>> see the character 

This might look like very simple opening. However, the audience already take a lot of information from this. From the start we already know that where is the movie taking place, what is occupation of the hero and we already know that something going to ruin this normal peaceful world. 

The best kind of title sequence is "No Dialogue" the story is telling through film language which include mise en scene, sound, camera and editing only these it can do more than telling the story it also setting tone for the movie. 

The title sequence of the movie se7en is very effective because even though it doesn't tell anything about the movie. It establish tone of the movie and also establish the obsession of the character. This is very effective as it makes the audience feel like it is a part of the movie, It setting a tone for a movie and also foreshadow what kind of the story going to happen.

This is couple of example of title sequence

Stepfather
The fact that he put all his equipment in really organise way suggests that his obsession. From this we already knows that the film going to be about psycho murderer.

In this shot when we see the blood it foreshadow the bad things that going to happen already.