Opening Sceneration - Miss Miller

The first four scenes are scenes that are initialising the setting, making the audience aware of where the opening is set, and they get an idea of what is happening, the victim is seen walking through some garages, and entering an alleyway. For those shots we are going to use panning and mid shots as these are simply shots to initiate the setting, as well as keeping the sound the same, as no sound effects are used before the killer is seen.

As she exits the alleyway the victim is seen in a mid shot, as she leaves the alleyway to the right, the killer is suddenly seen behind her without her awareness, holding a hammer, this is the iconography in the scene. This is when the sound track first kicks in, this begins to build up the suspense, and also represents that something is present in the scene that wasn't there before.

The camera angle then switches to a POV/handheld camera angle, from the killer's perspective looking at the victim, as she walks around the corner and then switches into the victim's perspective, she then looks around in suspicion, thinking that someone is following her. During this the sound track is slowly going to be building up, this builds up the suspense in the scene.

It then shows the victim walking away from turning around, and then going onto enter the gate which leads into the forest, using this setting because anyone can just walk into the forest, meaning that the audience can relate with the scenario. As she walks down the path it switches into the perspective of the victim, she hears something hit the gate that she has walked through, and she sees the killer behind her with the hammer in his hand, she then runs. It then shows a mid shot of her running off the path into the forest, the killer is then seen following behind her but walking, showing the confidence that he is going to catch her, whereas the victim is running for her life.

The camera angle then switches to one in the forest, where the victim is seen running through the forest towards the camera, followed by the killer who is again walking, this also that he is in control of the scene. Switching to another POV angle, which shows the victim's perspective of running through the forest and looking back at the killer, this builds up the suspense as you think that she is going to get caught however you want her to get away as you sympathise for the victim.

The victim is then seen to fall over and then crawl and hide at the bottom of a tree, showing a high angle shot which looks down the on the killer, this shows that the victim is inferior in the opening scene and could then go onto infer that she is going to get killed, this builds up the suspense in the scene. The killer is then seen walking away from the forest which makes it look like he's lost her, this is when the sound track pauses. The victim's phone then goes off, as she is trying to turn it off she is dragged away.

One element that will really make our thriller better is by using the hammer instead of a knife as the killer's weapon, this reveals more about killer than what a knife would, the hammer would show a more brutal side of the killer, whereas a knife is just a stereotypical weapon, revealing more to the audience.

Another element that makes our thriller good is by using a POV angles, this really gets the audience involved in the scene as they can see through the perspective of the killer and the victim, this gets the audience really involved in the film, therefore elements like suspense will have a greater effect on the audience.

Production Roles - Miss Miller

producers - devon
directors - devon
actors - tom sophie
director of photography - scott
music producer - scott
screenplay writer - everyone
mise-en-scene co-ordinator - scott
editor - tom

Within films production you need  allocated specific roles for each person as this makes the production of the film more organised and efficient with time. The main roles neccessary in producing a film are producers, directors, actors, directors of photography, music producers, screenplay writers, mise-en-directors and editors.

In our group Devon is going to be the producer as she was assigned team leader, therefore by giving her the role of producer would be a good choice as she has to organise the group, therefore putting her in charge of production would be better than choosing a different group member. In her role she has taken charge of  who is going to play each role in the production and then oversees how they do it.

Devon also played the role of director in our thriller sequence, a director is incharge of everything creative in the scene, and directs the making of the film, this was because she was team leader, and therefore giving her this role would make sense rather than anyone else playing this role. She played this role well making sure we filmed the sequence within the deadline.

The actors in the sequence were Sophie and me, our role was to act out the roles we had given to the characters in the opening, choosing Sophie because she was blonde and me because the killer was meant to be a tall.

In the production, Scott was the director of photography, this meant he was in charge of all of the camera equipment and had to take charge of all of the filming, making sure the camera was in the right place for the scene and make sure he got the right camera angles. Scott did this well as he did everything he needed to do.

Scott was given the role of sound director, this meant he was in charge of all of the sound in our opening sequence, meaning he had to decide which sound track to include and which sound effects and when. We gave Scott this role as he is very creative and would do the task well,

Screenplay writing was done by everyone, as this meant we all had an input instead of one person writing all of it, this meant we would all be satisfied with how it was wrote and we could put the best of all ideas into one sequence.

The role of editor was given to me, this was because I had previously edited the preliminary task and had experience in cutting and trimming the clips. Being an editor meant I had to put all of the clips in the correct order, cutting them, as well as adding the correct effects and sounds for different effects. I did this role well, however because this was a hard task, I had the rest of my group available for assistance.

Filming Schedule & Risk Assessment - Miss Georgiou

It is important to carry out a risk assessment in order to identify the risks involved in the filming process, and therefore helping us prevent them from happening, and helping us to counter them. The table below shots the possible risks involved in filming.

Making a filming schedule is important as it helps organise the filming of the sequence, and therefore makes the filming more time efficient, letting us meet our deadlines. Even though we made a filming schedule we was unable to follow it as when filming the third shot it got too dark for the cameras, therefore we was unable to film the rest of the scene and had to delay filming until the following day. Even though there was a delay we was able to film the whole sequence.