Kate's Blog

Friday, 17 January 2014

Location for Thriller

Location

We have decided to shoot our thriller in 3 locations:

1. The corridor in one of the schools boarding houses

2. The toilets (access to a sink)

3. A tree in my garden

Following the development of our story we may film some gravestones (also in my garden) in order to add to the theme of religion and churches.

Change of plan to our Thriller

Change of plan

Our shoot day has been scheduled to be the 22nd January and with our shoot day approaching we have had to finalise and change some of our ideas.

We have finally decided on a strong link that will tie both the politician and the young girl together. The politician is having to destroy numerous churches in order to make way for a new government programme of building, and the young girl, who is his daughter and has a strong Christian faith is so devastated and tormented by this she hangs herself in protest.

Having finalised this link, we had to edit our storyboard so that we had some shots that conveyed this plot change. For example, we have decided to zoom in and focus on key words printed in the documents, such as "demolish" and "churches" in order to allow the audience to gather some idea of what the papers state. Additionally, we have added many close up shots of the girl wearing her cross and reading the Bible before she hangs herself, in order to imply that this is the reason for her death.

Monday, 13 January 2014

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule:

8:50am - Prepare equipment (camera/microphone/light/costume/props)

9:30 - Leave school and go to my house

9:50 - Set up equipment (move props in position/allow actress to change into her costume)

10:30 - Start filming the hanging sequence

Film the hanging shots first (neck/feet)
Film the Bible reading scenes
Film preparation of the hanging

12:45 - Go back to school for lunch

1:45 - Go back to my house to continue shooting the hanging scene

Film the walking to the tree shots
Sound (footsteps on grass/path)

3:00 - Go back to school to shoot bathroom scene

Film washing hands as a mid shot
Film washing hands as a close up
Film any necessary extra close ups (hairdryer/soap)

4:30 - Film corridor scene

Film corridor scene
Film close up of contract
Film leaving the building

5:30 - Pack up equipment and tidy up props

New Storyboard for Thriller

New Storyboard

We have developed our storyboard considerably since our first draft. We had to alter and change many of our ideas so that they fit together to form a flowing sequence. For example, we realised that we could not just cut straight from a large segment of the politician to another large segment of the girl, but instead cut short clips together to suggest the idea that both events were taking place simultaneously. As well as this, we refined shots so that we had a specific idea of what we wanted to create. For example, we worked on the washing hands sequence for a long time, until we were satisfied that we had the right combination of shots. We also realised that there were gaps in our sequence, such as the fact that the girl needed to jump off something to hang herself. Therefore, we had to introduce her carrying a chair and multiple shots of her standing on the chair in order to build suspension.

I am happy with the way our storyboard has turned out because it shows that we are beginning to finally pure our ideas together.