Bloopers 4 - The River Part 2 (This Time, It's Personal) and Michael The Guinea Pig

Bloopers 3 - The Road Back

Bloopers 2 - Keys

Bloopers 1 - The River Part 1

First draft of poster (picture)

These are the two poster locations we have chosen to photograph. We asked the class what location they prefered, and 7/11 said they prefered the one on the right. We will use this picture as we too feel that it is the better picture. We will retake and edit the retaken picture. 

health and saftey risk assesment of opening

Exterior filming (long shot)

risk	What could happen	Who could be harmed	Resolution
Kerb	Trip up or down kerb	Anyone	Make sure you don’t fall over
Doors	Walk into door	Anyone	Make sure door is held open
Road	Hit by a car	Anyone	Look out for cars before we cross the road
Rain	Slip over	Anyone	Avoid puddles
Snow	Fall over	Anyone	Wear suitable shoes

Interior filming (range of shots)

risk	What could happen	Who could be harmed	Resolution
Blood or liquid on floor	Slipping	Anyone	Dry area thoroughly
Doors	Walk into door	Anyone	Make sure door is held open

Our influences for the thriller opening (Michael pocock)

One of our main influences is the use of masks to hide identity to create a intimidating character. we used the v for vendetta mask as our main antagonist.  

TThe reason why we chose to use this mask is due to using recent news as a stimulus. on the 6th November 2013 a group of public demonstrators fired fireworks at Buckingham Palace, while the Queen was having a meeting with presidents of different countries. Another reason why we used this mask is because it is based on Guy Fawkes,one of the most well known terrorists in English history.

Another of our influences is Eden lake we use emotion of a man and his love for a woman in our opening for our thriller and this is a key example of the relationship we want to express through our opening we reference a key scene in our opening in Eden lake, Michael fassbender opens a ring box to show that he wants to propose we will use a ring as a prop to evoke emotion towards the protagonist as he realises that his girlfriend to be fiance has been brutally murdered.

another influence we used is in the 'sink sequence' where we use a lot of blood this is influenced by johhny depps death in nightmare on elm street where a lot of blood is used

 

1st draft of the poster

This is a basic draft made on computer of our poster. This will be drawn, adapted, changed, improved, photographed and edited.

BBFC Rating (Harvey Kennedy)

 I believe that the opening to our thriller alone may be a 12a/15. Our opening has no swearing, sexual references, violence or nudity, but it does contain gore. There is a real heart in a sink which the viewer may not expect, making the rating dwell on the 12a/15 border. The guidelines I found on the BBFC website were helpful in deciding the rating, but weren't clear enough to give us a definitive rating. I think that if we were to complete the story and make a full film it would possibly be a 15, or more likely an 18.

 

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Scenario ideas for plot

This is our map of ideas we had of what we could do, obviously, we had some rather awful ideas! We settled on the 'heart in the sink' idea, on the bottom left.

names for our thriller mind map

This is our diagram we used to choose the name for our thriller.

We decided on "Woodland Avenue" as it is the street that our thriller is going to be shot on. We also took inspiration froim the 'Nightmare On Elm Street' series for our title.

thriller moodboard and codes and conventions

This is our thriller moodboard, we focused mainly on horror thrillers for this moodboard. The reason we used horror thriller pictures is because we are heavily influenced by them and plan to make our thriller in the genre.
 The usual codes and conventions of a horror thriller:

• In a horror thriller there is always a internal/external threat, somthing for the characters to either defeat or be defeated by. e.g. The Thing (1982)
• There is usually a love interest of some kind. e.g.Eden Lake (2008)
• There is usually a final girl who is more intellegant compared to the other females in the film.  She is the last surviving character. She seems to be boyish in character and usually has brown hair. e.g. Denise Wllis,House of 1000 corpses (2003)
• There is usually a 'dark house' senario where the setting is in a isolated area/house where the mail horror occurs e.g. woman in black.

Comparison of the two logos



New production company logo
good points;
 better quality
looks professional
uses genuine image
fits in with thriller
uses space well
image ties in well with the name
uses colour contrast well



 

Original production company logo
good points;
its a good starting idea
very simple
bad points;
not of a good quality
too basic
unprofessional
looks fake
uses too much space
the photoshop job is awful and uncentred
 

The Hollow Bodies logo

This is our new and improved logo for our Media Production company, Hollow Bodies Media.