Group Stroyboards

 These are our group narrative storyboards .

Risk assessment

Filming times

Filming schedule

Date	Length	Reason
7th November 2012	2 hours	Going through the whole story so that the actors know what they are doing and then we know where the cameras should go and we also tested lighting.
8th November 2012	3 hours	We filmed the first 2 pages of our storyboard and we had many attempts but got what we wanted in the end. We had some trouble thinking about how we would make the reflection without seeing the camera but we got sorted that out
14th November 2012	3 hours	We filmed pages 3 and 4 and we completed it very easily. We are very happy about the footage we got.
15th November 2012	3-4 hours	We filmed the last 2 pages of the storyboard.
21st November 2012	30 mins	We filmed started filming the outside scenes but it got to dark so we had to wait for our next meeting.
22nd November 2012	1 hour	We filmed all outside footage and any other footage that needed re-doing.

Audience Feedback

Why is audience feedback essential? 

 Audience feedback is key in the media, they can react on the feedback from their target audience allowing them to unknowingly improve your film. The audience bring in the revenue and make a film creators work credible, it is also what makes a film popular or not, the more people that enjoy a film the more the messege of it gets spread. The aim of an editor/director/producer is to please their audience. The audience is the reason for making a film, and if your work is not pleasing them, who else to tell you what to change than the people watching your film. This will all come under constructive criticism. 

Where did you screen your production?

We screened our thriller production on youtube. This site allows anyone to view your product and is great for user comments. The comments will not be biased as are from complete strangers and you can get constructive and useful comments from people you did not intend the film to be for. This site allows you to get a wide range of responses from all over the world allowing a montage of  different and constructive comments. 

How did youtube help ?

youtube gave us quick feedback so we could carry out the required changes in time for the remarking of our thriller. A wide range of professionals view youtube videos as well and they could have given us feedback to make it better also. 

The feedback we received

We got a mixed 

light sound colors length 

Group Meetings

What is the purpose of group meetings?

I think that it helps the group understand all the opinions given from each person and help the others see where every group member is coming from. They help stabilise the group and review what we have done and what we can improve on. 

Do you think your group worked well together?

Week one

Met to discuss narrative and possible location me, Arthur, Orçun. Talked about potable camera shots while thinking of the conventions. Decided on location and date to start filming (oct 26). 

Week two

Met a day before filming to arrange the mise to save time next day. Me, Sam. Arthur and Orçun discussed editing techniques we could use. Started filming.

Week three

Relocated the thriller as felt could be better. This delayed things as we had to edit the narrative and shots used. Thought additional actress was needed so started looking. We all changed ideas about costume so Arthur and Orçun searched for a mask. 

Week four

Got mask and other actress, started filming. All were their. Didn't get a lot done but finalised the camera shots for the first 3rd of the production. Filmed first scene, came up with idea for dream. 

Week five

Half way through film now, Sam unavailable so just us four. Deadline is closing and we're a bit behind time. Filming slows as disagreement over shots in the kitchen. 

Week six

Thriller filmed but not edited. Behind time and rushing to complete by the deadline. All working to Finnish In time. I organised pictures I took of us working over the whole time ready for my presentation on it all. 

Film Credits

FILM CREDITS

One of the purposes of film credits is to credit the makers of the film. he purpose of the opening film credits are to state and tell you who are the producers, production company and other important people who are key to the production.

Colours

Dark and shadowed. This makes the opening scene sketchy and dull. The colours of the paper are dimmed down and made more yellow to show paper from the olden days. As the film is based on the 7 deadly sins the film had to make the opening credits look old fashioned and they did this by dimming down the colour and editing the iconography used.

Style

Flickered and sound of common things enhanced. This is to show the weirdness of the film. The flickered text and images are there to show the disordered nature of the killer. The use of montage editing show a sense of urgency in the killers thoughts and make the audience recognise the genre to the film.

Conventions

Dark and the opening sequence has brilliant mood setting music to make the opening scary with basically no acting. You only see the presumed killers hands not the face to keep the identity hidden for the presumed chase for his identity. It ended by saying 'Day 1'. This sets up a time frame of which the film will be done. It sets up that the killer will be doing things on different days and lets the audience know this. All of that was fro the last wording to the credits.

Order of appearance

The order of appearance was the; Production Company, Director, Main Actor(s), Title of Film, Actors Continued, Casting, Music, Costume Designer, Editors, Production, Camera Operator, Co-Producer, Producer, Writing Manager and Director (again).  

My Evaluation (american phsyco)

Colours

The colours are an unconventional element to this opening sequence. the original colours to thrillers are dark and 'moody' whereas in this the colours are white background with plain black writing. This could have a deeper meaning e.g. the character having two personalities or has the or having an unexpected twist within the film. The two colours represent good and evil or innocent and guilty, an odd thing for a thriller to have the dominating colour to be the innocent one. A quick burst of colour misconceives the audience as drops of cherry and sweet red sauce drop as if blood but when the opening scene begins you see the presentation of a desert in the same pattern the spots of blood had previously occurred. 

Style

The white screen has a sequenced appearance of plain black text. This runs smoothly and is another unconventional way to introduce a thriller to the audience. Its quite a clever technique as it has the audience judging the film and making theories before the film has even started and that keeps the audience on edge. 

Conventions

They haven't followed the common conventions to a common thriller film but have the audience in the same state of mind. The audience are skeptical and exposed to what the film has in store for them and are just as wherry or even more then they originally would have been. 

Order of appearance

The order of appearance was the; Production Company, Director, Main Actor(s), Title of Film, Actors Continued, Casting, Music, Costume Designer, Editors, Production, Camera Operator, Co-Producer, Producer, Writing Manager and Director (again).  

Group Analysis and Ideas




As a group we have discussed the different credits and which ones we liked and preferred. We like the used of motion tracking in other opening credits that we have seen and we also like the idea of white text on the background but with a glow like it would be a light. An example of this is:

But we want it to be white or more suitable colours. we want them to be gloomy and dark or at least the rest of the shot to be dim white a bright white text. one of the fonts that we liked we saw when we were watching a youtube video, the font is called optic and it has sharp edges that resemble a knife. this font was obtained from Dafont.com.

Another font that we liked was called face your fears and this was also from Dafont.com. This style looks like it is blood painted onto something which shows death and this is the font that we will be using. It will also go with our motion tracked credit theme so will comply with our film very well.

Character Representation

Name: Yeliz 

Age: 23

Gender: Female 

Ethnicity: Turkish

Background/purpose to narrative:

Yeliz lives by herself and has no friends or family close by. She is new to the area so doesnt have a sustainable relationship with her neighbors, a young couple who stay to themselves and are hardly ever seen... 

Connection to the audience:

The innocent female is a common convention to most thriller films as she is usually weak and vulnerable. We have chosen this character to follow the commons of a traditional thriller and make a sympathetic connection to the audience. Thrillers need the audience to have a connection to the main characters in the film so the audience show emotion when the victim  faces the 'unwanted' guest at her door. If the audience dont show emotion then they wont jump or be scared when Yeliz is attacked. 

Name: Unknown

Age: Unknown 

Gender: Unknown

Ethnicity: Unknown

Background/purpose to narrative:

The character has a history of mental illness and and thinks he is in a past time. the characters family originate form  germany and the subjects farther fought in the 2nd world war. The subject is a known racist and has recently moved from his isolated town in Germany that have communist connections with the ukraine to the area which Yeliz is...

Connection to audience: 

The character shows an obscurity to the audience and will give them encouragement that the film will be effective. 

Name: Paul Wright

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Ethnicity: White British 

Background/purpose to narrative:

A high-end businessman, with shares in a company and everything he wants. His farther owns the company and has secured his role. After a pattern of being late, he starts to become mysterious. He has unregistered meetings with someone who just moved from Ukraine that last hours at a time. He starts to turn up in old coloured clothes and starts to speak like he is from another time. He becomes a major collector in German WW2 artifacts and locks himself in his office without any communication to the rest  of the building. The other subject starts to dress in the businessman's clothes and people start to wonder...

Connection to the audience: 

This gives the audience the impression that the unknown subject is persuasive and devious. It will show the corrupt nature and unveiled lifetime problems Paul has had and gives the sense that he vulnerable and weak minded.