Proposed Shots

Proposed Shots. on Prezi

These shots I took on my camera to get a scene of the feel of our opening shot. I really like this location as its practical to film at. There will be no disruption and is prefect for what we had in mind. We really like the water concept so this is great for that aspect. We also love the feeling of this setting its quite, dark and very isolated which is perfect for the death of Beth. Having seen the opening shot from "Brick" the surrounding are very run down, we feel that our location shows this two with the eerie tunnel and the mud and dirty water. Although having a lot more habitat around us than the scene from "Brick" I feel that this will work, once we include the shot of Beth it will add a whole different perspective and feeling. The only concern we have with this location is how deep the stream is. Because Beth ( myself ) will be filmed face down by the stream we need to find a suitable shallow part so that the filming can go smoothly. We are wondering whether the other side of the tunnel location would be more suitable and still has good shots and angles to film from.

There is a scene from "Brick" where there is an over the shoulder shot of someone holding a ripped photograph. I think that this is a really effective shot and I feel that this kind of shot will work well with the scene with DAVE holding the burning photograph with the bin in the background. I also like the ring binder pad in the background as a backdrop. I feel that this could work well in the scene where ALICE is writing in her diary.

Immediately after the top shot it fades into another shot over the top. I really like this transition and I think that this is a really effective effect. I would possible like to use this technique in our film.

Casting Shots

These are our Casting Shots of the characters.

                                                                Tolga Ocay  as  "Jack"

Dan Balaam  as  "Dave"

                                                                Rebecca Cox  as "Alice"
                                                             

Emily Betts (Myself)  as "Beth Marwolaeth"

The main reason that we decided to use ourselves within the film and not to include external actors, drama students firstly because it was a practical decision and we didn't want to get into the situation where we are all ready to start filming and the external characters were either unreliable or not committed. We feel by using ourselves we can rely on ourselves and will be easier to communicate within the group as we will understand our ideas and project better than externals actors.

Music Ideas

Whilst visualising our ideas we have been looking for some suitable music. We want some thing quite powerfull and eerie but with a emotional feeling. We don't want anything to upbeat or too dramatic that it make the scene appear silly.

These you tube videos have given us some ideas of the sort of music that we will create for our piece.

If you listen to the music to the opening of brick it has the soft emotional feeling that was suitable for this scene to show the dead body and how peaceful she looks.

Development

Film In Production on Prezi

This is a prezi that shows the developing ideas; the Casting roles, The Outline of the Film, Target Audience, A rough initial draft of the Screen Play and testing some fonts of the title of our film.

Rough Ideas

Once deciding that we wanted to create a Drama/Thriller. We made some notes on our opening sequence for our film. After I watched "Remember Me" with its dramatic opening scene I suggested that to draw our audience is to open with something powerful. Taking inspiration from the film "Brick" we all agreed that this had a powerful opening and had the effect of being very dramatic but in a simple way. We thought of this idea and worked on the idea that we could open with the scene of a dead body and the mystery of 3 suspects that you get a gilmps of in the opening two minutes.

Inital Ideas

We made a rough draft of our initial ideas. We didnt go into much detail but we discussed each point and idea then wrote it down for refrence.

Inspiration

After returning from the Christmas break my group and I sat down to start to finalise ideas for our film. We have decided to focus on our film being a thriller/drama. We want to start with a powerful opening that will capture the audiences attention and make them ask questions and want find out what happens.

Powerful and dramatic openings are key to drawing in the audience and capturing feeling and emotion within the first few minutes.

I have looked at Remember Me, Brick these films open with a dramatic scene that really draws you in and makes you hungry for more.