Ideas for upcoming movie (feat SunSun and Toy)

Thriller Plan

1. Films - inspire (Sub-genre, Conventions)
2. Storyboard
3. Moodboard
4. Script
5. Costume
6. Cast
7. Location

Plot (Summarised): A mad doctor is killing his patients, seen on the news. A special task force is formed to catch this doctor. Police raid several suspected hideouts of the doctor. Doctor sees this on TV and smiles. The room he is in is very clean and sterile, but in the background, there is a woman taped to a chair, and covered in a decent amount of blood, next to her, a small table with clean surgical equipment.  Scene cuts to a car screeching to a stop with 2 detectives coming out, fully armed. They rush into a building, weapons in hand. The surgeon starts to put on his mask, and his left hand’s glove. At the same time, the detectives stack at the door. The doctor turns and looks at the door. The detective kicks the door in and move in, the room and dark and murky, but a slight figure is seen. The first detective fires at the figure, and it falls. The 2nd detective flips the lights on and turns out it was just a dummy. The room is dirty/filthy and old filled with barrels, they looked around confused. The doctor walks up to a laptop, and clicks on it. It turns on and is a security camera, looking at the detectives. One of the detectives opens the top of a barrel and an arm falls out, they both jump back stunned. One of the detectives uses his phone to dial his boss, while the other looks around and spots the camera. The doctor smiles under his mask and presses a button on his laptop. Suddenly there is a “BEEP!” in the room the detectives are in, and the barrels start lighting up with red flashes. The beep gets faster as the detectives rush out yelling “BOMB!” The doctor turns away and looks out the window, in a distant a rooftop explodes, the shockwave sends the building shaking a bit. The doctor turns around and finishes pulling on his gloves. He walks slowly towards the table, carefully picking out a hammer. He then turns towards the woman in the chair, lifting the hammer. He pauses and smirks for a second. The final shot is from the woman’s pov, as the hammer comes crashing down and it cuts to black. A police car with sirens on is heard passing and credits roll.

Setting:

• Very clean and sterile room (For doctor scene)
• Room that is dirty, Very old room that has blue barrels which contain explosive and body parts inside (When detectives come in)

Film Location

-School (Still Searching)(Clocktower)

-Outside School (Still Searching)

Microelements

Mise-en-scene

• Police siren
• Knife digging into skin
• Explosive barrels
• The environment of different rooms
• The way the doctor dresses.
• Woman strapped to a chair.
• The detectives move in quickly and shouting clear quickly, making seem efficient and good.

Camera

• Extreme close up shot (Doctor speaking)
• Two shot angle (Two Detectives)
• POV (From the captured girl perspective)
• Panning Shot (Doctor turning towards the table with tools)

Editing

Sound:

-Police Sirens

-Wind

-Loud Footsteps

-Doctor’s loud breathing

-Sounds of tools clinking

-A generator/loud refrigerator sound.

-Sound of an old light bulb turning on.

-”Swoosh” as the detectives past

Sub-genre:

• Crime
• Action
• Mysterious

Pre-visualisation:

Music:

• My composition (Synthesiser)
• Prelude Rachmaninoff op.3 no.2 (1:48 - 2:23) for climax point
• Doctor sound: Zed voice - English (0:00 - 0:26)

Props: -

-Potential generic mood board.

Scenes that inspired us:

Why do we watch Scary Films

Aristotle's Theory (384 - 322 BC) - "Catharsis" We purge/cleanse our own negative/violent feeling, by watching/consuming/experiencing violent, negative imagery

Dolf Zillman's - "Excitation transfer Theory" The negative emotions gained from violent/scary/negative imagery - intensify the positive"

Glenn D Walters - Elements to making a movie scary

1) Tension - create use of micro-elements, and manipulation information & narrative

2) Relevance - the fear generated has to be relevant to the audience - and believed

3) Unrealism - the audience have to be aware it isn't real

Aristotles idea might explain why new studies have shown that playing violent videogames do not incite violence in children. "Children who played video games for less than an hour each day showed lower rates of aggression than children who did not play at all—even when the games in question were violent ones."
Zillman's theory can be applied to many horror and thriller films where the pleasure for the audience is seeing the enemy vanquished, but this enemy often has to be de-humanised and seen as pure evil for the audience to gain that pleasure.
An example of this would the be pleasure viewer got from seeing Bellatrix Lestrange's death at the hands of Mrs. Weasley.

Glenn D Walters idea about relevance can be seen in the way our present day fears are extrapolated for our entertainment.

Ex Machima - Fears about AI
Neon Demon - Fears about growing old and beauty fading
Hell and High Water - Fears about inequality and poverty
Girl on a Train - Toxic masculinity and gaslighting
The Purge  - rise of conservative ideas about immigration and poverty

21st\11\2016

Conventional credits sequence for the Panic Room      

Order of credits:

1)  Columbia Pictures (Movie company first)

2)  Hoffland/Polone (Production company)

3)  Indelible Pictures (Production company)

4) Jodie Foster (Protagonist)

5)  Forest Whitaker (Antagonist)

6)  Jared Leto (7) Panic Room (Title of the movie)

8) Kristen Stewart

9)  Ann Magnuson/Ian Buchanan 

10) Patrick Bauchau/ Paul Schulze

11) Laray Mayfield (Casting agent)

12) Michael Kaplan (Costume design)

13) Howard Shore (Musician)

14) James Haygood/ Angus Wall (Film Editors)

15) Arthur Max ( Production Designer)

16) Conrad W. Hall/ Darius Khondt (Director of photography)
17)  Gavin Polone \Judy Hofflund \David Koepp \Cean Chaffin (Producers)
18)  David Koepp (writer)
19) David Fincher (Director)

From this we can see there is a distinct structure to the order - institutions - stars - title - supporting cast - technical talent - director

Western credits:

We used premiere to create our own artificial western theme song and credits.
We began by taking a blank screen and adding a character to it, (the cowboy in the orange screen in the above picture).
We used the keyframe and learned how to move the characters around the screen area.

One Minute Film Evaluation

1) Teamwork

When we first began our filming, it was easy to get our ideas together meaning that the our team was able to communicate well with each other. Enid took charge of the group and began to set up how we were supposed to act and what our roles were.
Our acting went pretty well and our overall co-operation was efficient and well done. Working with Bing and Enid was actually easy and fun as they were both nice and serious about the task at hand. 

2) Technical Process

The camera we were given was very good. We had no problems using it and the quality of the equipment was good too. 

Our tripod was not too useful as we hardly needed. Most of our scenes were shot with the camera on the table.

3) Final Product

I felt that the film was not too bad. Although our props and costumes did not go with the settings, it was overall enjoyable and well planned out.

a) I was pleased with:
-The actors and their performance.
-Our storyline.
-The camera angles and shots.

b) Things to improve on:
-Maybe more cast members to enhance diversity.
-Looking into the camera a bit too much.
-Better props and costumes.

4) 
If I were to redo this activity, I would try to get better props and not look into the camera too much.