Planning: Storyboard

STORYBOARD:
Storyboard is the graphical representation of a narrative that is used to plan the plot of a film. The storyboard shows each movement that will take place in a film production. This benefits our groups because it prepares us for what we aim to film in our thriller opening. The story board has information that is essential to our thriller opening. For example, the nuber of shots, the angle were filming from, number of scenes in the thrilller opening etc.

 

This storyboard helps us to give a visual aim of what we want to happoen in our thriller.
The main features it has is:
.Lighting
.Sound
.Costume
.Editing
.Props
.Location
.Camera shot
.Narrative description
.Actor

CONCLUSION:
The storyboard represents the ideas of every member within my group. This is the format that we are going to follow when we are filming.

Planning: Sound

PLANNING SOUND:

In our thriller, it is also crucial for us to plan the sound we are going to use for it will create the atmosphere and mood of emotion etc .

One of the sounds we are going to use diegetic sound to make it part of our thriller. The diegetic sound will be shown throughout the film, as is actual sound will be recorded in our thriller. One of the actual sounds that will be recorded is the heaay breathing of fear from the female character this shows the audience that she is scared and vulnerable making them relate to her.

Another sound, that will be used in our thriller is non-diegetic sound. Non-diegetic sound will be used as we plan to use sound effects to create more tension amongst the audience especially. It will; be specifically used when the female character/victim opens her eyes from her tormenting nightmare. It will also create a cliffhanger and reminds the audience that it is only a dream. Non diegetic sound also creates connotations that are different and makes the audience anxious for the next scary scenes that are coming.

Soundtrack will be used to influence and enhance the theme in the thriller to raise the level; standard of fear, mainly amongst the audience.

Planning: Character representation

CHARACTER REPRESENTATION:

Character representation gives the audience more of an insight into the narrative, which is the reason for it being useful in the film production. In order for a film to be conventional to it's genre it is crucial for representations of a character to meet the audience's expectation within that genre.

Name:Unknown

Age:15+

Character Role: Victim

Gender Stereotype of role: Female and Beautiful

Costume: Light coloured normal clothes/Pyjamas

Hair and Make-up: Simple/Normal, Natural, Straight hairstyle

Body language and facial expression: Small/average size, Physically weak.
 Usually portrays a emotion of fear     
Represented as: Vulnerable, Inferior, and a beautiful character

Role within the narrative: To be tormented by the anatgonist in the thriller.

The audience will be in fear for this character as she is being tormented in her home. For they can relate to this female victim/character.

Name: Unknown

Age:15+

Character role: Antagonist

Gender Stereotype of role: Male

Costume: Dark normal clothes

Hair and make up: Natural.

Body language and Facial expression:  Strong-physique
                                                                Evil looking

Represented as: Intimidating, Superior

Role within the narrative: To torment the female victim inside her home.

The audience will be in fear of this character as he is tormenting the female character. Also, at the same time the audience will also be showing dislike towards this character (male anatagonist) as well.

As you can see, there are two characters in total within the thrilller production, This analysis of the roles for both charactders helps me more to understand how the narrative is going to play out. In additon, this would benefit the audience in understanding the narrative and characters much easier. This analysis will help my group to think about our characters more carefully and to see how we can improve them in our thriller. My group will now know how the characters should look and act in the film production, due to this analysis.

Planning: Mise en Scene

MISE EN SCENE:

As I explained in one of my earlier posts, mise es scene is setting,lighting,body language, facial expression, costume and Iconography.

MIS ES SCENE IN MY THRILLER:

In my 2 minute thriller, mis es scene will be crucially used every time and to make conventional to a thriller.


LIGHTING:
.Natural lighting  will be used when the girl arrives home from work. This will help convey the atmosphere and the mood that is taking place for the audience to watch. Also, lowkey lighting will be used when the antagonist is introduced in the thriller, this is used to make the antagonist make more intimidating to the audience as well as the film.

SETTING:
.The setting will be a Isolated house where the female character lives by herself. We chose this setting because it is very convetional to a thriller, since it is a Isolated location .The female character is living by herself,making the audience fear for her.

BODY LANGUAGE/FACIAL EXPRESSION:
.The body language of the female character will associate with fear and vulnerability, therefore her body language will be tensed up as she fears for her safety since she is physically vulnerable. Her facial exppression will be similar in terms of her fear, her face will portray a emotion of fear to the audience that are fearing for her as she sees the antagonist. As for the antagonist, the body language will portray intimidation to the audience as well as the female character, with the way he stands in the female character's bedroom . In other words, the body language of the antagonist will associate with their character through Intimidation. Facial expression of the antagonist will be a expression that strikes fear into the audience as well. It will be portrayed when he's in the girl's bedroom and when he stands in the kitchen of the female character.

COSTUME:
. The costume of the female character will be clothes of bright colours or white to connote her mental and physical vulnerability and innocence, in other words it will associate with the other mise es scenes that are being portrayed in the thriller.
 .As for the antagonist, he will have a dark costume in order to connote his dark motives and to portray his intimidation to the female character and the audience.

ICONAGRAPHY:
. The Iconography that we will use will help determine the action that happens in the thriller. For instance, when the girl has the keys to open her front door it is clear to the audience that the action will take place in the home within the 2 minutes. The Iconography will influence tension amongst the audience, to summarize the point  I am making on our use of Iconography and the impact that we intend it to have.

Planning: Editing

EDITING:

In our thriller, editing as well as cinematography will also be crucially used.

 We will use fast editing when the female character is seen and attacked by the antagonist this is in order to build up tension amongst the audience as well as suspense. Slow editing will be used when the female character falls to the floor this makes the fall more dramatic towards the audience, meaning that more tension and suspense is created.

A fade to black editing will be used when the viewing target audience sees the antagonist, this creates a good effect on the film, while it will create more suspense and anxiety amongst the audience.

In addition, a reaction shot will be used when the female character first sees the antagonist, this is for the audience to view her vulnerability throught the emotion she shows on her face. Most Importantly, it will influence a chilled response from the audience.

Lastly, a shot reverse shot will also be used to show the full view of the attack and torment, tension and fear between the antagonist and the female victim, creating more suspense among the audience.

Planning: Cinematography

PLANNING CINEMATOGRAPHY:

A close up shot will occur in the thriller when the female victim opens her eyes. This is because we want to show the audience that the female character has been having a nightmare making them think that the female character will be safe but that is only for a split second.

Also, extreme close up shot will be taken of the glass as it shatters to pieces to show the affection of the glass and it creates more fear and tension amongst the audience. This will enhance the audience's thought that the female character is in great danger, as the extreme close up of the glass shattering will represent the result of the

 In addition, a tilt shot will be taken of the female character's body to show that she is vulnerable this shows the audience that there is a great chance that the girl will come to harm due to her physical vulnerability.

 Further more, a mid shot would taken of the anatagonist standing outside the window of the female character this is in order for the audience to be introduced to the a new character that they will be unsure of therefore creating more tension.

A point of view shot will be used will be used when the victim wakes up from her nightmare, this will be used to petrify the audience with what the victim sees making them Imagine that their the female character in the film.

Planning:Opening scene narration

OPENING SCNEN NARRATION:

Our opening scene is of the thriller genre, that is based on a psychological element(sub-genre).

In the narrative, a girl will be going back home appearing to have a normal day(to the audience).There will be a lot of use of cinematography, as different film shots will be on the girl as she is walking home. As well as the sound which will be natural, with the sounds of shoes and wind when she is walking home.

The use of iconography will occur, when the girl arrives home. The girl enters house, that is in a Isolated street. At this point, she is the only person in the house. The audience would feel tension, for it is conventional in a thriller for a suspected female victim to be home alone, before harm comes to gher. So far, a realistic element has been shown portrayed in this 2 minute thriller opening. When the girl goes to bed, the audience will realise that she has dumped her boyfriend through a phone text, texting "It's over". A extreme close up shot will be shown of the phone text, to make more tension amongst the audience for the girl's safety.

Afterwards, the female character goes to bed, she then wakes up for a drink of water, in her kitchen. But as she takes her glass, she sees a haunting figure staring straight at her, this causes her to scream and drop her glass.When the glass drops, the girl wakes up and realises it was a dream to her relief and there will be less tension amongst the audience at this point feeling that the girl will be safe. Suddenly, the same haunting figure appears right in her bedroom making her scream fo her life... Lowkey lighting will be used on the haunting figure to make it more intimidating to the audience.

The audience would be terrified for nthe character as they will not view the continuation. The audience will also suspect the boyfriend she dumped, for there is no other logical reason for the girl to be suddenly tormented.