Group 30

BLOGSPOT 28 PLANNING- Sound/soundscape ideas(by Lauryn)

These are our ideas for the sound in our film openings:

We would like our film openings to sound similar to these:

BLOGPOST 28 PLANNING: Analysing the use of sound in the previous students title sequence

Analyzing the sound in the previous students title sequences

BLOGPOST 27 PLANNING - Creating an audience profile (by Monika)

AUDIENCE PROFILE

After researching, we have created our own audience profile of someone who fits in our target audience. Details are as follows:

Name: Nick Johnson
Location: London
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Black British
Class: Working/Middle
Occupation: Logistics
Personality type: funny and friendly
Hobbies and interests: Sports, Relationships and cars
Brands he consumes: Nike, Adidas, Volkswagen, Samsung, Asda.
Media he consumes: TV shows: American Horror Story, The walking dead, How I met your mother, Orange is the new black.

(A sketch of how our target audience memeber would look like.)

BLOGSPOT 25 PLANNING - HEAD ON ACTIVITY.

The 'Head on' task was about gathering out individual ideas and putting them together in preparation for our actual film idea. The genre we decided on was thriller so we started off thinking about the conventions of a thriller and seeing what we needed in our film opening to make that evident.

We thought of many things that we could do for a thriller movie but we came up with these ideas:

The villain will be wearing an anonymous mask that looks like this:

We will use a computer in our film title and have it in our last scene.
The shots we looked at were ( Low angle shots, tracking shots. birds eye view, titled angle shot, hand held shot and point of view shot)
There will be two main characters, a girl and a male
We will be using props like fake blood and pictures of a girl
We will shoot in a graveyard for some of the scenes
We will have quick cuts to build up tension and suspense
The lighting will be dim for the most part
We will be using non- diegetic asynchronous sound
Our film opening will be discreet
We will have a shot of the man staring into the girls window
The male will be dressed in all black (Black hoodie, black boots/trainers, black joggers)

We were influenced by the following two films:

Obsessed:
This movie has a similar narrative to us as it is of someone's obsession over one person. Although in this movie the stalker is actually the woman how she stalks the man was influential as we found some ways of how we can get the man to stalk the woman.

Unfriended:
We took inspiration from the movie unfriended because this movie has a social media element where Facebook and other social media sites are used which is what we are aiming to use as part of our film opening. This film is about a group of people that hold group conversation. A random person wants to join but the group decline all of a sudden the people in the group chat start dying.

BLOGSPOT 24 PLANNING - INDIVIDUAL IDEA

My Initial ideas

Genre:

My chosen genre is a psychological thriller.

My plot/storyline:

The plot for my movie opening is a that teenage girl has had a bad past and has things that she would much rather forget so she moves towns in hope to get away and start afresh. She succeeds at first and becomes one of the most popular girls in her college, she has many friends and people that admire her. But eventually she can't escape her bad and she starts being stalked by an unknown male that not only knows everything about her. The male Is willing to do everything to ruin her life - literally.

Key characters

A girl: who is receiving some tortuous messages and threats

Unknown male: that is taunting the girl.

PLANNING - Individual ideas

INDIVIDUAL IDEAS

As we have decided we will create a thriller genre title opening sequence. My idea is to make the sequence discrete as it would establish the genre. There will be no clear storyline, however the plot idea that I was thinking of would be a serial killer stalking a teenage girl. The main focus of this would be the killer (antagonist) and his interests. I imagine that most of the outside shots would be done in the evening, just before it gets dark, as the dim lights convey mystery and creates tension. The best places to film would be; an attic, empty streets, graveyard, Camden town market (graffiti’s and under the bridge) and dark room. Both character would stay unidentified throughout the opening sequence, we would the recording them from the back or over the shoulder to keep the suspence.