Test Footage.

Test Footage.

we went to the wooded area behind the college to see what the lighting was like during the day.
we also experimented with different styles of shots that may work well with our opeing sequence.
We hope to upload the footage next lesson.

THINGS!!!!!!

Prop list:
Mobile phone
Tent
Sleeping bag
A weapon (undecided, possibly a knife)
A cooker
Torch
General camping stuff (back pack etc...)
(some props maybe hard to get into tent or to the actual site where we wish to film)

Costume:
Pyjamas
Dark clothing (covers as much as possible)
Hat

Shots:
Blank screen
C/U phone
C/U phone being picked up
Medium shot girl answering phone
Extreme C/U phone (message deleted)
Black screen
Extreme C/U of eye
P.O.V shots running through forest
Overhead shots of person running
Low angle shot running through forest
C/U Girl sleeping
Extreme close up of terrified girl
Low angle of weapon
Blood splatter (Ink in water or ink on tent wall)
Medium long shot girl enters tent
Medium long shot girl in sleeping bag, blood in places
Zoom in the close up of phone.

Location location location

One choice for the location of the opening sequence was Gog Magog. It is a wooded location that had an appropriate atmosphere for our film. however there was no room to pitch a tent in the wood as it was so overgrown. Also as their woodland is so overgrown and in parts on a steep gradient it would be rather dangerous to run through.

Animatic and soundtrack

The first few shots are the phone ringing, it is meant to be a somewhat calm opening but still eerie as it's the only sound that can be heard.
The Heartbeat starts when the eye opens which breaks the eerie calmness in the scene as the music also starts it gets more and more tense as the creature is running though a forest, the tension is finally broken when the thing reaches the tent and a splash of blood is seen.
The rest of the title sequence stays calm again, in that it isn't moving very fast, and tension builds up again as the camera get closer to the phone till you can see it saying 'we warned you.'

The sound was difficult to get right as there is no heartbeat sound on garage band and we had to download it, not to mention the fact that you can't change the speed of a specific sound so the sound in between the heart beats had to be shortened.

problems with music

Not allowed to use Kraftwerk, or other copyright music as it's in the criteria that we mix it ourselves. However we can still use Kraftwerk as inspiration as we liked the electro music style as it fits well with our sequence.

Ideas for shots

As i was browsing around youtube i found ideas for the kinda of shots we wanted, such as a wood shot where the killer was hiding behind a tree and chased down the victim, also i looked at other A level thriller opening sequences to just look what they got marked and see what we have to do and better to get good marks.