Editing Process

In this image you can see two very key members of the group hard at work. It's a mystery what exactly they're both doing, we will never really know, but it can be assured that it was absolute key to this group succeeding.

Here you can see a vital member of the group editing. A key process which hold the thriller intro, and team together. Without the intro being edited  the group would be left with long clips, lost on a memory card, its potential never seen.

Hard at work again. These girls never stop

Here we can see a girl in the group working. But not just any girl, this is one of the stars of the Thriller intro. Here we can see she not only stars in this film, but she has also taken a key role in helping bringing the film together, whether its on this very blog, working on the titles or music. The sky is the limit for her

The vital member of the group is talking to the Media Teacher Tony. They converse in deep talks about the film, if it works and how it will be seen from different eyes. This conversation is vital for the group.

The two vital members of the group talking about how vital they are to the group

A vital piece of equipment against a green wall

Storyboard

Planning: Potential Locations

The original plan was to use the location of an airport as it would create a more sophisticated and fitting atmosphere for the plot of the opening.

However, we have been granted permission at St Pancras International instead. This is because it would have been impractical to use the airport due to distance, sustainment of our equipment and also financial complications.

Here are some location shots that we've taken of Kings Scross and St Pancras International. We're hoping to be able to use most of these locations in our opening.

Notes on filming

The build up of creating this project has been quite challenging in terms of filming and gathering up footage to contribute to the end product as most areas can be difficult to film in as permission is needed in order to use the space. 

For example on multiple occasions when we attempted to shoot some footage we were approached and questioned about our use of the tripod and asked to leave the premises once at St Pancras station, Kings cross and once at Westminster Abbey. 

 

Of course this affected our schedule dramatically as we have a strict deadline, so after a few attempts of thing to "blag" our way through equipping and un-equipping our tripod when in site of local authority we decided the best way to go was through requesting permission. 

Victoria and Ellie pulled a few strings and contacted Rob Joyce and Ben Ruse who eventually gave us the permission to go ahead to film on the premises one Wednesday lesson for an hour. During that hour we managed to film majority of our scenes which are now in the final editing process.

Planning: Influence

The movie Collateral has influenced our movie to a large extent, whether it had been the pace, props, the type of shots, location and techniques used in regards of introducing the opening, i.e, the sound of people conversing which instantly establishes the location in itself.

Planning: Costumes and Props

These are the few props which we are planning to use. Pair of sunglasses, two black bags/briefcases, a white shirt and black tie.

Production Schedule

This schedule had been planned and we're hoping to stick to it in and manage to complete everything.

Pitch Feedback

The feedback which we have received in regards of our idea were positive. However, we were faced with the possibility of having issues with our location due to filming permission, therefore coming up with a plan B and thinking of any other locations that may fit our original plan.

Target Audience

The target audience for my thriller movie would be between the age of 15 to approximately 30 years. This is because the sub genre of the film is action which involves car chasing, violence, some strong language etc. Movies like Collateral, Mission: Impossible / Ghost Protocol include action, thriller and even adventure which is a combination of what the majority of the audience (being young and older teenagers) enjoy watching.

It is important to bare in mind that the target audience will change depending on the sub-genre of a thriller movie. For instance a psychological/horror thriller would usually have an 18+ restriction instead of 15+ as it may be psychologically damaging and upsetting.

Base-9 Pitch

Audience #2

     









Name: Jack Davis
Age: 15
Interests: Playing computer games (1st/3rd person shooters.) Socializing with friends on his smartphone (Blackberry.) Playing football and watching television. Favorite films include "Mission Impossible" starring Tom Cruise and "Collateral" also starring Tom Cruise.
Home life: Jack is an only child and lives with his mother in a two bedroom flat in Hackney (East London.) Father is Absent.

Jack is part of our target audience as like most young boys his age he is intrigued by violence and action which plays a huge part in our film. this common interest is exercised by his other hobbies and interests; the games he plays etc. Our film will appeal to him because "Collateral." was one of our inspirations giving him something that is relevant to his interests and something he is also familiar with without being cliche or repetitive. Not having a male figure in his live makes Jack eager to idolize the strength and ambition of one of our characters. This will allow him to connect deeper to our film as he finds greater meaning behind it.                         

Audience

Thinking carefully about your target audience is just as important as every other aspect of film making. Audiences are chosen especially so that film makers know exactly how to approach the creating of their films as each type of audience is different and will have different interests. Therefore content will vary within each type of audience. For example films with a age restriction of 18 are more likely to have offensive material such as strong language, sexual themes and violence etc than a film of 15 would however in some cases these will overlap. As we are trying to create a thriller appealing to teens our audience is going to be 15-25yrs which will have similar themes to the ones in the 18 film but at a lesser level.

Thriller Idea

I had the idea of creating a thriller opening based on the murder of a young girl. 

Everyone believes her to be dead however later on a female approaches the mother claiming 

to be her biological daughter. In order to generate thrill and suspense, It would have been

heavily reliant on cuts between flashbacks and the present day. It would have started with 

the mother of the girl trying to remember her daughter when she was alive as she goes into 

her room . She walks around and significant items ; such as her school uniform, older photographs 

and diary would be highlighted with the use of close ups and extreme close ups. It would then 

switch to a flashback of the girl in the park playing with a sibling and the speed would have been

 slowed down to show the sacredness of this clip. 
 
The girl's mother then comes across a clean and ironed school shirt hung up against her wardrobe. 

She goes to touch it when suddenly it cuts to a bathroom covered in blood with police tape surrounding

the area with the girl's mangled body left in the corner (Face is not visible.) After thinking about it

I realised that this idea was not realistic or practical especially considering that we have a very tight

deadline and that getting a hold of some of the aspects would be difficult to obtain like a child actor to 

play the girl and the location. We'd have to have someone willing to let us use their bedroom which is quite

difficult. Also I think that I over complicated things and over thought the narrative of the opening which 

isn't useful or possible in the time that we do have so instead we decided to take a simpler option of 

recreating "Collateral" with some aspects of "Se7en" and "Taking of Pelham" included called "Base-9"

Mise-en-scene