Planning for Film- Risk Assessment

Planning for our Film- Location and Setting

Location and Setting 

 

The location and setting of "Intruder" will be filmed at my house.

 Which is a modern, new build, 3 bedroom, family home, on a new estate.

 

As our film is set in a family home, we thought this would be a good location to film in.
The main rooms we will be filming in are:



 - The top of the stairs (Landing)

- The living room

-Bottom of the stairs

-The kitchen

 

Planning for our Film- Actors

 Planning - Actors

Our First Actor- The Mother

Played By: Susi Cracroft

Aged: between 30-40

Susi is playing a stereotypical mum,

concerned for her children and the home.

Second Actor- The Possesed Boy

Played By: George Marshall

Aged: between 8-10

George is playing the young boy who we see as the

 possessed child roaming around the house at night.

The relationship between the actors:

The Relationship between the two actors is approriate as they are mother and son in real life, making it more natural on camera and more realistic to our audience making it more of a  beleivable narrative and plot.

Planning for our Film - Plot/Narrative

Our Plot/Narrative Ideas:

Our narrative starts of with a distressed mother calling the police after a series of on going nightly events leave her house in a state.

Thinking their house has been burgled the police install CCTV cameras in the home to catch the intruder.

The footage is then watched and the mother finds out the destruction is down to her 10 year old son who is possessed.

Planning for our Film - Title Ideas and Fonts

 

1)  Intruder:

 

- Chiller font

-White writing

-Bold

 - Red glow around the text.

Planning for our Film - Sound

Sound choices for our Horror/Thriller

 

 

1) Thriller (1:08) from freeplaymusic.com

 

This sound is a very dark and slow paced, with allot of sounds of wind in the background, and a rhymthic beat.

 

2) Nightprowler reprise (1:04) from freeplaymusic.com

 

This sound uses the piano and allot of sound effect to give a physcological feel to it, this is very slow and builds up to a loud noise at the end.

 

3) The Haunting (2:01) from freeplaymusic.com

 

First 20-40 seconds of this sound is effective and is like something is getting closer to you by using a rhythmic beat, after that the percussion picks up.

 

4) Resentment (0:44) from freeplaymusic.com

This is my top choice of the sounds we have found, as voices are used by whipsering to create atomspheric noises and sound effects are very unsettling, this fades out at the end to a chime of a bell.

 



Planning for our Film - Target Audience

A representation of our target audience:

The target audience for our film is:

- Males- as males enjoy thriller/horror films more than women

- Single- as single people have more money to spend on going to see the film

- Employed- this is also because employed people have more money aswell

- Aged 15-35- as this is the age category that mostly watches films and goes to the cinema frequently also our age certificate is 15.

Planning for our Film- Our Title

The title of our film is "Intruder"

Defintion of the word Intruder: "a person who enters a building, grounds, etc., without permission"

Our film is set in a family home, which is considered a safe place, and being intruded in your own home makes the audience feel unsafe and uneasy as they should feel safe.

The connotations of our title, are:

 - Unwanted

 - Unsafe

 - Burgulars

 - Infiltrators

 - Danger

 - Tresspasser

 - Invader

 - Criminal

Planning for our Film - Shot Lists

Shot List

 

- Camera pan, allong the police tape outside the house.

 

- Close up shot, of the police siren lights on.

 

- Close up shot, of the police statement book writing down the names.

 

- Over the shoulder, mid-shot, of the police interview

between the officer and mother.

 

- High angled shot, of the living room.

 

- High angled shot, of the kitchen.

 

- High angled shot, at the top of stairs, showing the landing.

 

- Low angle shot, at the bottom of the stairs looking up the stairs.  

 

- Over the shoulder, mid-shot of the police interview between officer and mother.

Planning for our Film - Storyboards

Our first Storyboard for Intruder:

Shot 1:

Shot 1 shows our production company name appearing, with a static effect and non-diegetic sound effect.

Shot 2:

Shot 2 is a panning camera allong an extreme close-up of "police line, do not cross" tape, outside the house. This is when our non diegetic sound of a 999 call is playing in the background.

Shot 3:

Shot 3 is the same as Shot 2 but instead of the "Police line do not cross" we will have some of our title sequence names appear on the tape, This will also have the non diegetic sound of a 99 call in the background.

 

Shot 4:

Shot 4 is of a Police light on the top of a police car, as the blue and white lights spin the title sequence names will apear on the screen as part of the light. At this point the non-diegetic sound of the 999 call will begin to fade out and end. 

 

Shot 5:

Shot 5 is of a police statement book, which a officer is filling out the name of our actors will apear in the statement as part of the title sequence, our digectic sound will be the start of the police interview between the mother and officer, this shot will then fade out.

 



Shot 6:

Shot six is a 180 degree rule shot, using a conversation between the mother and officer, the diegetic sound of the conversation is heard, this will then jump cut to shot 7.

 

Shot 7:

Shot 7 uses a split screen editing effect with 4 diffrent cameras around the house all recording, the boy walking down the stairs.

 



Genre conventions of Thriller and horror films

Conventions of the genre Horror/Thriller looking at the film 1408:

Using these 6 categorys:

-Mise-En-Scene

-Narrative

-Charactors/Representation

-Cinematography

-Editing

-Sound

Film 2: 1408

 

 

Mise-en-scene:

•  Rain, Thunder, Lightning, Stormy weather
• Dark low key lighting
• Scary house
• Haunted mansion/hotel
• Lost in a storm.

Narrative:

• Man lost in a storm
• Ghost hunting in a hotel.
• Author researches top 10 most haunted houses.

Charactors:

• White, american, brave, man, who enjoys thrills and hunting ghosts and paranormal.
• Hotel couple- Middle aged, american, psyco, mad.

Cinematography:

• Close up- Of the cigerette, shows its importance.
• Establishing shot- of the hotel surronded by woods and a bridge.

Editing:

• Non- Chronological order- flashback of him in the hotel.
• Ellipsis- Showing him passing time in his hotel room, uses mixes to run smoothly.
• Clean cuts throughout.

Sound:

• Radio in the car at the beginning.
• Music is eery at night, and changes dramatically to jolly in the daytime.
• Police sirens (Amplified sound)
• Thunder, Lightning, wind and rain (Amplified sound)

 

 



 

Genre conventions in Thriller/Horror films

Conventions of the genre Horror/Thriller looking at the film When A Stranger Calls: 

Using these 6 categorys:

-Mise-En-Scene

-Narrative

-Charactors/Representation

-Cinematography

-Editing

-Sound

Film 1: When A Stranger Calls

 

 

Mise-en-scene:

• Fun Fair- rides, candyfloss, balloons, children
• Houses- window, Sillohette
• Low key lighting
• Police Searching- body bags
• Red Balloon- connotes danger

Narrative:

• Someones been killed- Murder
• Womens being stalked over the phone.
• Being lost in a fun fair

Charactors:

• Stranger- dark silohette, shadow
• Young Woman
• Mum Charactor
• Police- All men, main officer/investigator was old, white, fat, american.

Cinematography:

• POV shot- beginning, shakey and makes us feel uncomfortable.
• Close Up- Main police investegators face seeing the murder scene (Emotion of digust and scared)
• Low Angles of the fun fair- disorinatating, makes you feel insecure.

Editing:

• Whipping transitions.
• Flashing quickly into diffrent shots.
• Jumpy, Quick and fast paced editing.
• Fade to Black.

Sound:

• Phonecall (between young woman and the stranger)
• Laughter of children (Scary and Twisted)
• Mechanical noises of the fun fair rides
• Scream of the woman being murdered (amplified sound)
• Police car sirens (Unsyncrinous)
• Tense, Metalic, Slow paced and eery music thats dis-chorded.

Film Questionnaire Results Analysis

From the questionnaire I ran, this is my result analysis:

•  The majority of people I questioned were in the age range of 15-18 years.

• Out of the 10 people questioned 6 of the people are students, 3 are employed and 1 was retired.

• Out of 10 people questioned 50% goto the cinema to watch films, these are all in the age range above 15 years and below 40 years.

• Out of the 10 people questioned 100% watch films at home, however only 50% also watch films at a cinema.

• Out of 10 people questioned 30% never goto the cinema, and 10% rarely goto the cinema, most of these are in the age category under 12  and 40 plus years.

• Out of the 10 people questioned 50 % only watch films on a friday and a saturday, the other 50% will watch films at anytime.

• Overall, the genre Comedy was the most popular with 9 out of 10 people choosing it.

• The second most popular was Action with 7 out of 10 people choosing it.

• Overall, the genre Anime was the least popular with only 2 out of 10 people choosing it

• The second least favourite was joint with Horror, Romance and Mystery all only got chosen 3 times.

Film Questionnaire

 

 

Film Production Company Logo's

20th Century Fox- Home Entertainment
The big writing and statue shows they are a big company.
The Spotlights show that they are important and "in the spotlight"20th Century shows they are modern.
"Home Entertainment" shows that you can get cinema quality at home.

DreamWorks

Dreamworks connotes that they produce family and fantasy films, allowing kids to dream.

The small child fishing shows they are fishing for ideas

The small child shows the inner child in every person.

 The fact hes in space shows that they can achieve there dreams and wishes. As lots of small children wish to goto space.

 

Universal

 The world shows that universal produce films for all over the universe.

 The title being bigger shows that they are a bigger company than everyone else.

 There name is universal this is also because they are known world wide, and produce all over the world.

 

 

PIXAR

The lamp is facing towards us showing that theyre films are produced with there audience in mind, and there the most important.

The lamp is also animated to show they produce animated films.

 The actual logo is extremly simple, as there films are aimed at children in mind.

 

Paramount   

The word Paramount means more important than something else or the most important, this shows parmount is the most important company.

 The stars in the semi-circle show that they have famous stars and actors in there film.

 The mountain connotes they are at the peak of there industry and ontop of everyone else.
 

Warner Brothers

The Warner brothers logo connotes that 

 

Preliminary Task

 

The Task:

The task was to film, and edit a peice of footage showing a range of shot types and other filming and editing skills. Our preliminary task had to include:

 

-Good continuity

-Shot Reverse Shot

-Match On Action

-180 degree rule

 

What went well?

 

Overall our priliminary task went well, and we used the range of shot types and good editing to achieve a continous 30 seconds of footage of a conversation, from my feedback i have shown i can use match on action, the shot reverse shot and 180 degree rule whilst two people are having a conversation, i have good tight editing and good continuity with footage and sound aswell.

 

What to improve?

 

From my feedback i found out my editing could have been tighter and the close up shot on the door should of been cut earlier, because of the slight pause before the door was opened, it slows it down.

I, Robot Opening Title Sequence

I, Robot (2004)

Opening Title Sequence

 

 

0 seconds- Fade from black to neon blue lights.

5 seconds- "Twentieth Century Fox presents" title appears from the blue lights and moves around the shot.

11 seconds- The title dissapears into the the next blue light.

13 seconds- "In Association with Mediastream IV" Appears through the next blue light.

19 seconds- The title then disspears behind another set of blue lights.

21 seconds- Blue lights disspears and bubbles ontop of a red light is seen.

24 seconds- A bright flash is used, and the title "I, Robot" is shown.

26 seconds- Red light gets brighter, fills the shot.

29 seconds- Title disppears into bubbles.

32 seconds- More bubbles fill the shot and burst.

37 seconds- The "Law I" Title appears through the bubbles.

46 seconds- The "Law I" title dissolves into bubbles.

48 seconds- Fast pan shot, into a shot underwater of a person trapped in a car.

50 seconds- The "Law II" title apears through bubbles.

56 seconds- The "Law II" title dissolves into bubbles.

59 seconds- Fast pan shot, back to the car underwater, shot of metal legs outside the car.

1 minute- Fast pan shot, to the car next to him, someone else is trapped in the car.

1 minute 2 seconds- Quick cut, to a close up of a person drowning.

1 minute 4 seconds- "Law III" title appears through more bubbles.

1 minute 16 seconds- The title dissolves into bubbles that cover the screen.

1 minute 18 seconds- Quick cut, to the person trying to get out of the car under water.

1 minute 20 seconds- Quick cut, to a close up of a metal hand smashing through the window.

1 minute 22 seconds- Robots face comes through the car window

1 minute 23 seconds- Quick cut, to a alien type hand reaching towards the camera.

1 minute 24 seconds- Quick cut, to a extreme close up of charactors eyes opening in shock.

1 minute 25 seconds- Zooms out to see the whole face of the charactor.

1 minute 28 seconds- Fade to black.

Se7en Film Opening Notes

Film Opening Notes

Information-

·         Casting Directors names

·         Music Producers names

·         Co-producers names

·         Producers names

·         “New Line Cinema presents”

·         Actors names

Image-

·         Extreme close ups of what he’s doing (Cutting up newspapers, stroking a sewing needle) this shows us what he is doing is detailed.

·         Images fill the screen (scrapbook)

·         Disturbing images (Crossing out words like God and intercourse, and scribbling on people’s photos) this shows he is destructive.

·         Close up, turning pages of a big book.

·         Iconography- Razor blade, needles.   

Sound-

·         Strong heartbeat beat throughout.

·         Slow and low rhythmic beat.

·         Dark over powering sounds.

·         Sounds are discordant, don’t all fit together.

·         Beat gets faster paced, like a heart beating quickly towards the end.

Font-

·         Fonts are shaking (adds to the disturbing images.)

·         Font is handwritten and messy.

·         Contrast of black and white font. Dark shows darkness and threats

·         Font is randomly laid out, shows the films going to be random.

Editing-

·         Very quick cuts, shows the film is disjointed.

·         Fade to black.

·         Some shots blurred, to show confusion.

·         Faced paced, this is to show the subliminal message that it’s scary.

·         Image was not cut to sound, to make it disjointed and scary.

·         Shaking the font, makes it scary to the audience.

Film Industry Independent research

Roles of a producer:

• Finds idea for the film
• Writes the script
• Finds cost
• Finds director
• Raises the money for the film
• See's the film through to distribution
• Keeps the creative and business sides of the film together.

The idea and Script

• Needs to be a well told story
• Starts with a big idea
• Script is a guidline for director to improve
• Has to have a start, middle and ending

The Package:

• Producer and director need to plan cast and team
• The package is the idea and the script, the producer, director, the budget, and the cast and team.
• Team has to be strong and get on well.

Investment:

• If filmed in a certain region, film company goto regional fundings.
• Co-production get other investors and share the film
• Easier to have a financer, they are incontrol.
• Have mulitple partners who have invested smaller amounts, this means the main funder is incontrol.
• Goto the foreign film producers eg. Pixar Films
• National Lottery funding helps film companys.

Distribution:

• Bring the films to cinemas and market
• Every film will have a release date
• Promote the film to as many people as possible
• Big Hollywood Studios

Working Title

Working Title Film

Working Title Film production company was founded in 1983 by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and is now based in London and co-owned by Eric Fellner and Bevan. The company started by producing Low budget feature films and some telelvision programmes. They made global box office success from the
Hugh Grant film "Four weddings and a funeral" (1994) . Also they produce romantic comedy films from Richard-curtis which mainly star Hugh Grant, likedefinatly maybe,  but recently they have moved on todo other types of films like "United 93".

Working Title Film Research

SENNA (2010)

Initial Idea:

The idea for the film “Senna” was based on the life and tragic death of the famous Formula One champion called Aryton Senna. How he died in the San Marino Grand Prix, in Italy aged 34.

Director:  Asif Kapadia

Cast:

 Ayrton Senna - Himself (archive footage)

 Alain Prost - Himself

 Frank Williams - Himself

 Ron Dennis - Himself

 Viviane Senna - Herself

 Milton da Silva - Himself

 Neide Senna – Herself

Opening weekend takings:   

$73,497 (USA)

£375,000 (UK)

Awards:

Austin Film Critics Award-

Best Documentary

BAFTA Film Awards-

Best Documentary

Best Editing

Outstanding British Film (Nominated)

British Independent Film Awards-

Best Documentary

Best Technical Achievement (Nominated)

International Documentary Association-

Outstanding Documentary Editing

London Critics Circle Film Awards-

ALFS Award Documentary of the Year

Los Angeles Film Festival-

Best International Feature

Released Dates:

Cinema-   7^th October 2010

DVD- 20th July 2011

Genre:  Documentary, Biography, Sport

Reviews:  8.6 / 10 rating on IMDB from 20,708 users

Premiere Magazine Front Cover

Premiere Magazine Front Cover

• Premiere as a Masthead- red, bold, and white glow, white spotlights.

I chose the name "Premiere" as it suggests being first. Our magazine is first for the readers to know about the latest films. and upcoming films aswell.
I put the masthead in the spotlights as this shows the masthead is important and eye-catching to readers.
I added a white glow to make it look 3D.

• Tagline- Straight from the red carpet, to you! This shows all the film news is first hand and straight to the audience. The words "to you!" are aimed directly to the reader, making it adressed to them.

• Target Audience-

The magazine is mainly aimed at young adults to adults, and men usually in jobs; as going to see films can be expensive.

• Main Image-

The main image of the front cover, is me and Sam. I chose to photoshop a cinema in the background as it fitted with the film and premiere theme. We both chose to sit in a pose that looked like we were watching a film.

Next to the main image, are smaller images of other films we made up these have shocking images to represent the movies. Making the reader want to read more or watch the films.

The strapline "Top reviews with Sam and Charlie" shows that the reviews are recent and they should be trusted by the reader.

• Colours- 

 Red, Black, White, Gold. I chose to use the colours red and white as they connote film premieres and class. Also the contrast between the black background which appeals to the male audience and the red and white writing, is eye catching and makes the front cover interesting to our target audience.

• Other-

Price: I decided that the price of £2.50 was an average price, as i researched popular monthly magazines and how much they charge. Th.is was in the price range of between £2.00 and £4.00, so my price was acceptable for what i was offering
Other Images: I chose to use a range of images to connote films like the cinema ticket this was used to give a refrence to there being an exclusive review in the magazine and makes the audience feel drawn in to read more. The star is used to also draw the reader in as inside the star is a stars name, this suggests they are inportant. The directors chair is showing the reader we have exclusive interviews within the magazine as it looks like we have met the director being interviewed. This also adds to the exclusivness of the magazine in genral.