FILMING

Over the half term I, Eleanor and Amber met up to begin filming. We used the canon D60 camera provided by the school and a tripod. The first problem we encountered whilst filming was that the camera would only shoot 8 second shots, as we did not have time to look up how to fix this problem we continued filming and tried to film our shots in these short windows of time. We shot the bedroom shots and the last few shots of the introduction to our horror film. I set up and filmed most of the shots for our film and assisted Amber a little bit in the directing of it. By the end of our 4 hour shoot we had achieved most of the shots we wanted and were happy with the outcome.

CALL SHEET (FIRST DRAFT)

GCSE Media Studies Call Sheet for Psychological Thriller

Shoot date: 21/10/14

Location: 34 Beaconsfield Road, Claygate, Surrey KT10 0PW

 

Camera equipment:

 

Lighting equipment:

 

Harriet Mobile:  07*********                                          Email Address: harriet@gmail.com

Eleanor Mobile:  07********                                           Email Address: Eleanor@gmail.com                

Amber Mobile: 07********                                             Email Address: Amber@gmail.com

 Props:

 

 

Wardrobe Person 1:

 

 

Wardrobe person 2:

 

SCOOP IT

Today in class I used a useful interactive online research tool called scoop it to research thriller codes and conventions. This means I can search online and find related thriller posts, scoop it usefully suggests posts daily.

 
 

 

TREATMENT

10/9/14 | PLANNING | TREATMENT

-ERICA 12 tired eyes, messy hair, pale - sits up in psychiatric hospital and voiceover begins which is a conversation between her parents and a doctor about her mental health. In the conversation the doctor states that she should not yet be released but her parents disagree and request her release.

The opening credits will begin with a cross cut to an old oak desk with green leather which is brightly light with a desk lamp. The desk had early release forms and medical papers scattered across the desk. There will be close ups of the forms and papers whilst the credits are shown in the corner. The desk light will turn off to a black screen and the title of the film will appear.

The shot reopens to the main character's bedroom with her reading on her bed and her parents saying goodnight to her. When her parents leave the room the main girl gets out of bed, puts a pillow under her duvet to mascaraed as a body, pockets a weapon (wire rope) and climbs out the window.

Shot cuts to a young girl FAITH, 9, with her hair tied back, innocent face, small, being physically bullied by two older girls, HANNAH AND CHLOE, 13, tall, hair down, heavy makeup. Main girl sees this as she lurks through the streets at night and has a flashback to when she was younger and was bullied herself. This triggers her to creep up and attack the girls (no shots of actual attack) but a shot of the young girl's reaction to this (shaking and shocked) then runs away.

cross cut back to the girl climbing back through her bedroom window and sneaking back to the bathroom to get rid of the evidence of the murders.

DETECTIVES

We accessed the art of the title and used it to watch the intro of the French detective series detectives. One of the ways that you could tell it is a television detective series is because in the opening sequence detective files were shown to show the main characters within in the show. It also had the opening credits in a clear white and black bold font and the title of the programme in a bigger font to make it stand out from the other credits. It also had a catchy and cheerful theme song which would not be featured in a film opening.

ZEN

During the lesson we watched the opening sequence for the tv show zen. One of the ways in which I know this is of the crime drama genre is because the opening sequence features a man holding a weapon this creates suspense and jeopardy. Another feature of the opening titles is the shot of the questura which is the Italian police which shows that the tv show is of the crime drama genre. The colour scheme of the opening sequence is green, white and red with black silhouettes the use of the colours from the Italian flag suggests that it is set in Italy.

QUESTION 1 SPY KIDS EXTRACT

Spy Kids is a spy-comedy hybrid from the action and adventure genre. A convention of the extract is suspense and jeopardy  this is used in the wedding sequence when they are attacked by helicopters. This is typical of the action and adventure genre because there is often conflict in AA films.

Another convention of the extract is spectacle when during the wedding sequence the newly wedded parents jump off the cliff and there is a high angle shot of the steep cliff this also creates suspense and tension because the audience are unaware of whether or not the couple will survive the jump. It fits the spy-comedy sub genre because after the fall they release heart shaped parachutes which is supposed to be humorous.