03/02/11

Focusing on the montages...

We went straight to the dark room, as we had an idea of what we were going to film today and how we would film it. We went in and took small video clips of the room, which could be used with in a montage throughout our opening sequence.
Although this was successful, we soon came across a problem which caused us to rearrange what filming we could do. This problem was that we were not able to process the photos, which are a very important part with in our film, and so did not head to the sport hall changing rooms, where we would of used the photos on the wall, but instead carried on working on our other ideas revolving around the montage. This included shots of the photo film and the red lights within the dark room.
On top of this, we came up with the idea of showing lips within the sequence and so filmed this in order to use our time productively regardless of the problems we had faced.

Examples of pictures edited for the thriller

We thought this picture linked in well with our theme as it poses questions in the audiences mind whether there will be a murder in our film.

This picture helped us to come up with the idea of our title, 'Green Eyed Monster'. The word monster is good because when you think of monster you don't usually relate it to a human. So by using this, we are almost dehumanising the 'stalker' to a 'monster'.

This picture we took in negative as it gives a scary, distorted look

This picture is similar to the 'murdered', as the words 'tragic lesson' suggest something bad could happen to someone in the film 

These two pictures link into our thriller, because the idea of 'red lips' show/suggest that a woman could be the stalker

Film name ideas..

 We found it hard to agree on what the name of the film could be called because we had many ideas. From the title incorporating a question, too a short one worded name. We mainly revolved our ideas on the photography side of our opening sequence, due to it revolving around photographs and the developing of them and this is when we came up with initial ideas such as;

Montage

Photogenic

Captured
These though, didnt really stand out to us as we felt they would do the film justice because they are quite plain and were not very unique. This is when we came up with a 'question being incorporated in our title, due to it being a main thriller convention and come up with;

Is she watching you?
Do you know whos watching?
After discussing though, we decided to focus it around the fact that this is a wall of images and its being exhibited and therefore our final and the one we chose was
The Exhibit

02/03/11 lesson review.

In today's lesson we focused on doing testshots for our final filming. We spent most of the lesson in the college changing rooms which will be a major part of our opening, we investigated into different shots from different angles, places and from different point of views.  We also filmed the red lips, this is when Ellen applies red lipstick in the mirror without her face being seen to add a mysterious effect. Experimenting with different shots enabled us to figure out the best way to film, and we now have many strong idea's for tomorrow's lesson.

Shot List

Establishing shot of the photography dark room.
Over-shoulder shot of the stalker walking into the dark room over to the processing tray.
Mid-Shot of the stalker moving things around in the processing tray.
Close up of the pieces of paper, which have the credits on them.
Over-shoulder shot of the stalker walking over and past the photos that are already hanging up and surveying them.
Close-up of her hand going over each picture (red nails).
Mid-Shot of the stalker hanging up another photo.
Long-Shot of all the photos hanging up with the stalker's back in view.

Over-shoulder shot of the stalker walking into the bright room.
Mid shot of her back infront of the wall.
Close-Up of the middle picture on the central wall.
Zoom out to establishing shot of the whole wall full of pictures.
Close-Up of hand pulling picture off of the wall and screwing it up in her hand.
Mid-Shot of the screwed up picture being thrown into the bin.
Shot from inside the bin of the screwed up picture landing inside it.

Props List and locations

Prop List:

• Red Lipstick
• Red Nails
• Stalker pictures
• tongs
• Credit prints
• Chemical bath

Locations:

• Photography Dark Room
• Bare room (Garage or changing room)