Monday, 18 April 2016
Planning - Casting Ideas
David - Ben Brenchley
Ben will also play the antagonist in the Psycho's Lair
Sophie - Samantha Timmins
Planning - Location Scouts
The locations we decided to use for our opening were the top corridor at Kings Norton Girls' school:
A neighbour's house for the holiday home:
And a classroom at Kings Norton Girls' School
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Evaluation Question 6
Looking back at your Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I feel that from the preliminary task to the full product our filming and editing skills have improved a lot.
In the pre-lim task the camera movements and camera shots were quite basic and our editing skills were limited however in our final product our camera shots and movements were much more varied and our editing skills here also massively improved.
We have learnt how much more effective camera shots, angles and movements are to the creation of a specific mood or tone in a scene and also how important they are in putting across a specific attitude towards a certain character. For example not many people will particularly like our PSYCHO character as they are a villain and they are always shown in low key lighting. Also we have learnt that camera shots of a characters feet can create a sense of enigma.
Monday, 22 February 2016
Character Profiles
Character Profile: Sophie
Name: Sophie White
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Class: Middle
Ethnicity: White British
Background info/backstory: Her father
is a businessman and works for David’s dad’s company. She lives in Bournville
and has known David since she was 5. She is currently in Sixth Form in Kings
Norton. She has only known Michael since they both started Sixth Form together.
Costume: Vibrant colours and conservative clothing – doesn’t like
to show a lot of skin. Brown hair.
Personality
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Laid back/relaxed
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Happy person – positive outlook on life
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Always sees the best in people
Name: David Crowe
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Class: Upper
Ethnicity: White British
Background info:
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His father is extremely rich
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Lives in Edgbaston
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He has known Sophie since he was 5 years’ old
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He is currently at 6thform in kings Norton
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He is obsessive, compulsive, over-emotional, OCD,
separation anxiety.
Background story:
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Mother died when he was 9 years old.
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Used to go to holiday home every year, but stopped
when mother died.
Costume:
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Wears quite
dark clothing, posh designer threads.
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Dark hair
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Dark eyes
Plot and synopsis
Plot and synopsis
Sophie, protagonist main character
Michael, antagonist stalker main
characters
Synopsis
“I’m
sorry, I can’t be with you” were the fatal words which Sophie said before she
went missing on the 12th of January 2016. Who was the last one to
see her? No one knows where she is, not even her ex-boyfriend Michael, who she
was seeing in secret, or her new boyfriend. Police question all her friends,
family and the people which are her past and present. But they don’t look in
the most obvious place, the place where she first met him? So the attention is
drawn towards Michael or David. Who is it? Police are questioning them both,
the only piece of evidence which the police have is a statement from a
passer-by that she was seen with a male in a hoodie. In this action packed
psychological thriller, people turn on the most truthful person, the liar
believed for his sob story. But the real question is, where is Sophie?
Plot
Sophie a 17 year old girl, who is
drawn between two males, who she loves, both of them have no clue about the
other. However Sophie goes to meet up with one of them and then she tells them
about the other and breaks up with them. The male then proceeds to kidnap
Sophie, hiding her in an abandoned basement of holiday home, from his
childhood, that they went to together.
Her mom Catherine, then reported
her missing; and this is when the police came to investigate her whereabouts.
The passer-by then gives the statement about seeing Sophie with a male in a
hoodie dragging her off.
Suspicious, Ex-boyfriend Michael
goes looking for her. He then talks to her boyfriend David, who converses about
his old holiday home. Michael then goes looking for Sophie at the holiday home
and finds her. He then proceeds to try and save her, but David turns up and
finds him. He then hits Michael with a baseball bat, killing him in the
process. He then hides him in a room in the basement.
Sophie, after Davis left, tried
to escape. But David left his coat and went back to the Basement, catching
Sophie trying to escape. So he pushes her and she hits her head off a concrete
step, so she dies as well as Michael. David frantically tries to cover up his
two murders. So he decides to Burns their bodies and buries their ashes in
concrete. He then hides the baseball bat under a manhole cover on the side of a
road. No-one could find them.
5 years later, pipes under the
manhole cover need maintenance, so the baseball bat is discovered. {Left on a
cliff hanger}
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Preliminary Task
Evaluation
From this activity we have learned how to incorporate different types of shots, for example the 100 degree rule, a match on action shot and a shot reverse shot. Two of us filmed and two of us were in the production which allowed us to try the roles that we wanted. We filmed the sequence in different parts, using different camera shots in order for us to create continuity and smoothness to our product.
The editing process
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
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