Preperation for filming

This picture shows Raveena writing the words 'Listen to me' in child-like writing on the walls of the room we chose to film in. 

This picture shows Raveena making the writing thicker to show up better when filming and Sharni testing the camera to make sure it was all working and fully charged ready to film. 

This picture shows the bloody handprints on the walls underneath the words 'grab the knife'. We done this just before we filmed to make the process of cleaning up afterwards easier. The ingredients we used were fairly easy to remove afterwards. 

Working Script for Thriller

DREAMSCAPE

by

Raveena Dosanjh, Sharni Bromfield & Charlie Fisk

Int. scene - description

Set in a 4 bedroom semi-detatched house on a main road. The opening footage shot in just one room (the bedroom). 

Shot 1: The  beginning credits of the film showing producers and                      actress.

SHOT 2: High angle shot of the main character asleep in her bed. The young female appears to be having an uncomfortable dream which then turns into a nightmare as she tosses and turns.

SHOT 3: (A look inside the girls mind to see what she is dreaming about) Close-ups and horizontal panning of newspaper articles which are overlapping the sleeping girl show the tragic event she is disturbed by. (still a high angle shot) 

SHOT 4: Image on the newspaper showing the fire. (Close up)

SHOT 5: Flashes of violent text appear over the young woman sleeping. e.g “Grab the knife”. (Close up on words, High angle of girl sleeping)

SHOT 6: Low angle shot of a knife on the womans bed. 

SHOT 7: Close up of main character as she wakes up from nightmare. (Reaction shot).

SHOT 8: The main character is rocking back and forth. (High Angle). 

SHOT 9: Main character gets out of bed and walks towards the mirror.  

SHOT 10: The main character is looking in the mirror. (Over shoulder)

SHOT 11: While looking in the mirror, what appears to be an evil hallucination appears in the mirror. (Mid shot)

SHOT 12: The violent text is shown on the wall followed by bloody handprints.

SHOT 13: The film title is shown on a black background.

SHOT 14: The camera zooms out from black screen (young woman’s mouth) showing a close up of young woman’s face.

Thriller Storyboard

Newspaper Article

We created this newspaper using Pages on the apple macs. In our film it was used during the young woman's dream to show that the most recent murder was in a fire and showing it as a front page newspaper article emphasizes how big the murder enquiries are. 

We decided to put a story on the bottom of the front cover with the date of 2012. This is a crucial point because it is immediate evidence of when the film is set. 

We searched youtube for videos to find out what ingredients most people used and the cheapest way to do it. One of the ingredients used in almost every video we found was corn syrup. Because the videos were recorded in america, we had to search the equivalent to corn starch that is sold in England. This was Golden Syrup. We then substituted the corn starch with flour.

Below are some images to show us making the Fake Blood:

Step 1: We poured Golden Syrup into a jug.

Step 2: We then measured out the correct amount of flour to add to the jug of golden syrup.

Step 3: We then added water to the mixture.

Step 4: Once we mixed the ingredients together, we added a few drops of Red food colouring.

Step 5: Once we mixed the red food colouring into the mixture, we added Green food colouring as directed by the video to darken the mixture. This created a more realistic looking colour blood.

Shopping List

When preparing to film, we wrote a shopping list of all the things we needed. We had a budget of spending £2 each (£6 in total). As shown in the table above, the total cost of all the props was £4.25. This shows that we didn’t overspend our budget and it was £1.75 cheaper than expected. 

There isn’t a price for both the Black Eyeliner and Liquid Eyeliner shown on the table. This is because we already had these. This saved us money on our budget. 

Possible Film Titles

To come up with our possible film titles we used www.thesaurus.com and typed in the word delusion. The following words came up: Apparition, Mislead, Delirious and Unsettled. We decided that out of the wide variety of words that came up, these were the words that stood out and captured our attention first. We then looked at our trailer and brainstormed a variety of words that came to mind including the words dream and escape. We then merged the two words together coming up with Dreamscape. 

Next we got our classmates to fill out a survey to find out which title would draw them in and interest them in watching the film. The results show that Dreamscape was the most popular gaining 30% of the vote. 

What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing Products?

Above are still images from various thriller films produced by Alfred Hitchcock. When researching ideas for our thriller, we discovered how Hitchcock extended his work into the 1940's in a number of brilliant black and white films which resulted in great recognition and success in his name. In admiration, we decided to film our thriller in aim of using a black and white effect on Final Cut Pro.

List of Black & White films:

	The Lady Vanishes (1938)- with Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, May Whitty
	Rebecca (1940)- with Joan Fontaine & Lawrence Olivier
	Foreign Correspondent (1940)- with Joel McCrea & Laraine Day
	Suspicion (1941)- with Joan Fontaine & Cary Grant
	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)- with Teresa Wright & Joseph Cotton
	Saboteur (1942)- with Robert Cummings & Priscilla Lane
	Spellbound (1945)- with Ingrid Bergman & Gregory Peck
	Notorious (1946)- with Ingrid Bergman & Cary Grant
	Stagefright (1950)- with Jane Wyman & Marlene Deitrich
	Strangers on a Train (1951)- with Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
	Psycho (1960)- with Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh

Editing Software helped us to create this black and white ef

fect. Using Final Cut Pro, we went to 'Filters' and then 'Effects' and finally applied the 'Desaturate' to the whole selection of the film.

 

Then we applied an overlapping effect by lowering the transparency level on the selected clip which is circled in the screenshot below. This was done in order to emphasise that it is a dream as she is tossing and turning whilst the images overla

p.  

We then used a camera flash effect in her dream of the fire and newspaper article to give the impression of memory re

lapse and an uncomfortable nightmare. We selected 'dip to colour dissolve' effect and selected the appropriate timing. 

Another effect used was the 'blur' effect for when the young woman wakes up from her bad dream and looks around in disbelief. The blur was used to show her vision as unsteady and her mind being all over the place. The type of blur we used was 'radial blur' because in comparison to the other blurs it made it

 seem more realistically chaotic. 

The most complex effect used which we feel gave our thriller the most edge was the cloning effect because it really showed the female's psychological state of mind. When filming, we filmed the actress with continuity in mind as if we had placed her on a different background then it wouldn't have worked because we needed to put the hallucination in the mirror. 

We cropped the selection needed and then placed it into the mirror clip and positioned it so viewers could see the hallucination clearly. For the transition to have been smooth, we used the 'fade in/fade out dissolve' effect. 

Ratings

The BBFC defines the age certificate of 15 as :

Passed only for persons of fifteen years and over. No person apparently under the age of 15 years shall be admitted to any exhibition at which there is to be shown any film which has received a '15' certificate from the British Board of Film Classification.

The BBFC has strict guidelines on what should be in a film which has a certificate of 15:

Theme: No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate to 15 year olds.
Language: There may be frequent use of strong language; the strongest terms are only rarely acceptable. Continued aggressive use of strong language and sexual abuse is unacceptable.
Nudity: There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or educational context.
Sex: Sexual activity and nudity may be portrayed but without strong detail. The depiction of casual sex should be handled responsibly. There may be occasional strong verbal references to sexual behaviour.
Violence: Violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain, and of injuries. Scenes of sexual violence must be discreet and brief.

Imitable techniques: Dangerous combat techniques such as ear claps, head-butts and blows to the neck are unlikely to be acceptable. There may be no emphasis on the use of easily accessible lethal weapons (in particular, knives).

"There are scenes of knife use in our film but the scenes........"

Horror: Sustained or detailed infliction of pain or injury is unacceptable.
Drugs: Drug taking may be shown but clear instructive detail is unacceptable. The film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug use.

15 means that the film, video or DVD is really only suitable for those aged 15 or above. Only people aged 15 or older are allowed to view a 15 rated film at the cinema or buy or rent a 15 rated DVD, video or game.