Music to accompany Ident

To accompany our Ident for our production company we needed music to accompany it, we assigned to this Myles Wilson who produced the music from band garage which unfortunately we can't produce at the moment but will post it as soon as possible:

Script

Scene 1 - The Party
(Shelby is sitting on her own in the corner.)
(Billy walks over)
Billy: Alright love, do you want a drink?
Shelby: Yeah okay then, you alright?
(Music plays over them talking while Shelby seems to be smiling and laughing)
(They share a goodnight kiss as the party ends...)

Scene 2 - The Park
(They walk into the park holding hands)
(They sit there talking while calm and peaceful music as she plays with his hair)
(They're holding hands as they part at a road sharing a kiss as they say goodbye)

Scene 3 - The Webcam Scene

(Bill seems relaxed on his laptop laying on his bed)
(On webcam, you see Shelby smiling as she happily types away)
(Suddenly appears someone behind Shelby with a trophy!)
(Bill jumps up in shock!)
(Suddenly rising behind Bill's bed is the same killer with the same trophy)
(A massive thud is heard)
(The killers hand comes over and types 'Gotcha" on the screen and then sends it)
Screen fades out.....

Music - Moby Gratis

In terms of music, we had to ensure that we acquire some non copy right music that we could use in our thriller in order to create tension and suspense. We signed up for a non copyright site called Moby Gratis which is a site where you can apply for license for some non copyright music. Below is a screenshot of two of the tracks, I selected and were approved by the Moby Gratis company.

Treatment Sheet

Outline of Ideas

- Girl & Boy meet at party.
- They start to see each other.
- One evening, they go on webcam to each other on live messenger.
- Boy sees killer come behind his girlfriend on webcam and jumps up to protect her.
- Behind the boy is the same killer and strikes him.
- Killer presses 'Sent' on the laptop.

What resources will you need?

Props
- Webcam
- Laptop
- Weapon for the killer
Settings
- Bedroom
- House
- Park

Actors
-Girlfriend
-Boyfriend
- Killer
- Extras

Justification to the genre

- Going to have two unexpected murders.
- Going to provide confusion in how the killer could be in two places at once.
- Building up suspense when you know something is going to happen between the couple.

Codes & Conventions into the Thriller Genre

Two main parts to a thriller convention are to do with sound and editing. For example quick cuts and camera angles changing bring suspense and tension to the film.The use of lighting can also be an aspect into the thriller which brings shadows, mirrors and stairs into the scene which can create tension. Other conventions to a thriller could be seeing things from one characters point of view, normally the killers where he sees the male protagonist he is likely to kill and this makes you feel sympathy on the male protagonist.

Research into real films of this genre

- Sabotage - this film gives us the idea of how to build up suspense and for you to know what's going on when the characters in the film. In this film we know the boy is carrying a bomb although the boy doesn't which builds up suspense as we don't want the bomb to blow up when the boy has it. We related this to our own film as the audience can see the killer behind the characters even though the characters are unaware of this.

- Shadow of a Doubt - this film gave us the idea to make quick cuts in the killing to make the action seem more lively and scary. In this film, a woman is killed in the shower with very quick cuts to show the tension involved. We feel we can use this in our own film when the killer makes her killings as we can show how the tension being built up soon comes into action at a very fast pace.

Research into potential target audience

We researched into potential audience of the teenage genre and all posted questionnaires onto our facebooks to see what our potential audience look for in a thriller and what previous thrillers they have liked. We found out how they like tension to be set up. We have taken these aspects into account and tried to include it in our own thriller. We found out that teenagers seem to like films such as Jaws & Physco and seem to like tension being built up with suspense music and quick action when the action that the suspense has been building up to happens.

We believe our film meets this target audience as it starts with a house party which all teenagers can relate to at this age, it then relates to teenagers again with the relationship between the boy and girl which is to be acted out like a typical teenage relationship. The suspense building up is sure to keep the audience on their toes and then will provide confusion when the killings happen with the killer being in two places at once.

List of Characters

We have finalised what characters who are taking part in our thriller;

The two main parts are the boyfriend and the girlfriend.
The Boyfriend - Billy Cove
The Girlfriend - Shelby Osbourne

The Killer is being played by Louise Levitt and there will be several extras being shown in the party scene.

Format of the Titles

The format of our titles at the start of the film will come up as follows;

Featuring the amazing Billy Cove.....

Also, Shelby Osbourne.....

Louise Levitt

Music - Myles Wilson

Director of Photography - Jess Wallin

Costumes - Jess Wallin

Name of Production Company

To come up with the name of our production company, we let Louise Levitt choose it as she is very fond of pandas so we have called it 'Panda Productions' which we believe sounds good and fun and is quite catchy and people will remember. Next week I will post the Ident for the Production Company to show what it will look like.

Ident - Production Company

To make our thriller look more professional, we had to create our own production company and create an Ident for the company. This job was assigned to Louise Levitt who did a really good job in creating an ident for Panda Productions.

Analysis of Previous Student's Work

To find ideas for our own thriller, we looked a previous student's work and analysed what was good about them and what needed improving, below I am going to post two videos of previous student's work and analyse what I thought of them;

This first film was called Narcotics;

Strengths;
I found this film good as it built up tension very well and meant you couldn't take your eyes of what was happening. I also liked the suspense built up by the fact the killer was wearing a mask and you could never see their face meaning there was confusion there. I also like how it left you on a cliffhanger and made you want to watch on as you wanted to know if the killer got to the girl he had been stalking.

Improvements;
I did feel that at times this film dragged and didn't make sense as the plot seemed to not go anywhere and wondered if it was just a typical stalker thriller convention. I felt that maybe if there was more characters on more improvisation on the stalking, this could have made the film more exciting and perhaps provide a twist that was different from the usual thrillers.

The second film was called 'Til Death Do Us Part'

Strengths;
I thought the music in this film was very good and fitted well with the plot which was very clear and made it clear to the audience what was happening. I also thought the way the action happened and left the film on a cliffhanger at the end worked well with the gunshot, this may keep the audience wanting to watch on.

Improvements;
I felt attempting to film a wedding was an error on the directors part as it didn't look believable and is very hard to create a wedding with the resources available. Also I felt the tension wasn't built up as well as it could have been and there could have been more signs shown that something was going to happen as it didn't really seem to go anywhere until the end. I would also suggest they included more characters to set up the rest of the film better.

Name of the Film

To decide the name of our film we all put an idea on the name and then had a vote.

The four suggestions we had were;

The Laptop Killer
Twisted
Love Killer
Sent

We decided on Sent in the end as it was short and sweet and doesn't give too much away for the film.

Mood Board

Below are some props I have considered we may need to add in order to enhance our idea of what we want to include in our thriller;

Progress

For the past few weeks, we have been drawing up our storyboard and finalising our ideas. In my next few post's I will show our storyboard and post our final idea. We aim to start filming in the next two weeks in which I will keep you posted on how we progress. We have also decided the characters we are going to have in the film, with 3 main characters and then a considerbale amount of extras for a party scene we plan to shoot.

Settings

Below are some possible settings I have considered where our thriller could take place;

Storyboard

Below is our storyboard for our actual thriller which we plan to shoot in the coming weeks....

Survey Monkey - Results

Below is a link to my results so far;
http://www.surveymonkey.com/MySurvey_Responses.aspx?sm=XX5fQDKEtqoYWt0Cyq%2fhLQizOXfVp%2b47FOo2y9MB8k0%3d

Due to my lack of responses so far, I have reconsidered maybe reposting the survey on my facebook and maybe posting it on my twitter account also....