actors, props, setting?

The actors in our thriller will just be me and Chris. At one point we was going to have a third actor, but we decided to change the action in that shot, so it was more effective for us the just use me and Chris. Also not everyone would be available at all times, where as me and Chris will be so it is better for us if there is only us to so we can get on with the filming.

The setting for our thriller is our school. One reason is we have easy access, and another reason is that it is effective because schools are meant to be safe, but the killer just walks in.

The main props for the thriller are the hoodie that the killer wears to hide him self and the mobile phone he girl uses in the thriller.

Name

I have been thinking in my head for a little while now about what film we should give our thriller. We have been so involved with trying to think of idea's for the story line and camera shots etc that we haven't really thought of any names. I want to have a name where it is only one word, and it is a scary name which will get the viewer thinking about what the film is going to be about before they watch it. I would like a very powerful word, something like "UN-known", because this adds to the tension that we are going to try and build, Nady having built up tension with just the name would help. When me and my partner have another meeting we will discuss all this information and try and come up with a name.

Due to the fact that our filming will need to be done in school we will not be able to do any filming in the Easter holiday, but we have planned to start as soon as we can when we get back. Also due to the school trips that my partner has been on we was unable to start filming in school time, but we have planned in our heads and filmed some practice shots so we do know what we need to do when we get to filming. In the mean time I will be updating my blog with different research an post some last minute ideas.

Problems we may come across

There will be a few problems that we will come across when it comes to the filming for our real extract. Already in the pre-filming we have come across a few problems that we are trying to sort out. Our thriller will be set in our school grounds which means that we firstly need to get permission to be able to film in certain places for example in certain classrooms where people aren’t working. This is a problem that is in connection with another problem which is because we are working in the school it means it is going to be very busy all the time. Me and Chris have already decided that we will be doing a lot of our filming after school when there are very few people in the school. This is because the only people that will be in our thriller with be the serial killer and the victims, we feel that if we have any other people in the thriller this will destroy the tension that we are trying to build, and also we want the serial killer to be mysterious.

Music

I have ordered our music on the moby gratis website. Hopeful we wont have to wait long for our music, i am hoping that it comes before we go back to school after the Easter holidays so that as soon as we have done all our filming we will be able to editing our work and add the music in the parts we want it. I will check my e-mails on a regular basis to see if we can have the music.

Review

I am going to review everything that we are going to do in the thriller and add some new ideas that I feel would be good in the thriller. It’s going to start with the serial killer walking into the school. At no point in the whole thriller with the killer’s face be shown. This will add to the effect and build tension because the killer’s identity will never be shown. The killer will walk thought the building looking for his victim. I was thinking about wither the killer should kill a few girls or if he should just stalk the one girl. I feel that it would be more effective and we could make it more interesting if the killer only stalks one girl. We could have lots of camera angles where it is point of view of the killer watching the girl. This would build lots of tension and make the piece scarier because the viewer would worry for the life of the girl. I want to show people around the school at some points, but I don’t want anyone to notice the killer is there. Me and my partner will have to get together to talk about the different ways of doing this and not showing the killer.

I decided to research about what people thought about “Psycho”, I got a comment off http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/, where a person is talking about. I thought I would add it to the blog because I have already commented personally so I thought I would add someone else’s comments about it.

“Yes, everything you've heard is true. The score is a part of pop culture. The domestic conflict is well-known. But nothing shocks like the experience itself.If you have not seen this movie, do yourself a favor. Stop reading these comments, get up, take a shower, then GO GET THIS MOVIE. Buy it, don't rent. You will not regret it."Psycho" is easily the best horror-thriller of all time. Nothing even comes close...maybe "Les Diaboliques" (1955) but not really."Psycho" has one of the best scripts you'll ever find in a movie. The movie's only shortcoming is that one of the characters seems to have little motivation in the first act of the movie but as the story progresses, you realize that Hitchcock (GENIUS! GENIUS! GENIUS!) in a stroke of genius has done this on purpose, because there is another character whose motivations are even more important. Vitally important. So important that you totally forget about anything else. I was lucky enough to have spent my life wisely avoiding any conversation regarding the plot of this movie until I was able to see it in full. Thank God I did! The movie has arguably the best mid-plot point and climactic twist in thriller history, and certainly the best-directed ending. The last few shots are chilling and leave a lingering horror in the viewer's mind.Just as good as the writing is Hitchcock's direction, which is so outstanding that it defies explanation. Suffice it to say that this movie is probably the best directorial effort by film history's best director. I was fortunate enough to see this movie at a big old time movie house during a Hitchcock revival. Janet Leigh, still radiant, spoke before the film and explained how Hitchcock's genius was in his ability to 1) frighten without gore and 2) leave his indelible mark on the movie without overshadowing his actors (like the great Jean Renoir could never do). "Psycho" is clearly its own phenomenon, despite all the big-name talent involved.Hitchcock does not disappoint by leaving out his trademark dark humor. His brilliance is in making a climax that is at once both scary and hilarious. When I saw it in the theatre the audience was both gasping in disbelief while falling-on-the-floor laughing.One more thing...Tony Perkins. Janet Leigh got much-deserved accolades for this film, but it is Perkins who gives what remains the single best performance by an actor in a horror movie. He is so understated that his brilliance passes you by. He becomes the character. The sheer brilliance of the role is evidenced by the ineptitude of the actors in Gus Van Sant's 1998 (dear God make it stop!) shot-for-shot "remake." Though the movies are nearly identical, Hitchcock's is superior mostly because of the acting and the atmosphere (some of the creepiness is lost with color). This is made obvious by the initial conversation between Leigh's character and Perkins, a pivotal scene. The brilliance of Perkins in the original shines even brighter when compared with the ruination in the remake even though the words and the shots were exactly the same. The crucial chemistry in this scene lacking in the remake gives everything away and mars our understanding of upcoming events. The fact that Perkins could never escape this role - his star stopped rising star as it had done in the 50s - proves that he played the part perhaps too well.I keep using the word brilliant, but I cannot hide my enthusiasm for this movie. It is wholly unlike the overblown, over budget, overlong fluff spewing all-too-often out of Hollywood today. "Psycho" is simple, well-crafted and just the right length.Eleven-and-a-half out of ten stars.”

Practice shots

Chris and I recorded a section of film that I will be putting on my blog. The will contain me and Chris talking about the end scene of our thriller, and trying some different camera angles that we want to use. We will be putting it on the computer in our next media lesson. We felt that filming us explaining what we wanted to do would be easier than trying to write it down, and also it would be more interesting way of getting our point across.

Preliminary exercise

Changes

Already we have decided a few for our ideas. At first we was going to show a scene of a girl walking a dog in a park, this was so we could use a different location and make it more interesting, but after a few discussions we decided not to do this scene because this may ruin the effect.

Storyboard

We completed our story board during our last lesson and took pictures of them. Next lesson if not before we will put them on the I Mac and then put them onto our blogs. Our story board shows a basic understanding off the sort of scenes that will be in our thriller. We are stilling thinking and discussing with each other about the different scenes and camera shots that we would like to include in our thriller.