CAST

We decided on these actors as our main characters because we wanted our target audience to be able to re-late to the characters. We needed characters that the age of the public 16-20 who would be watching it so they would be able to recognise the characters personalities and traits which would therefore keep them interested and entertained.

Animatic

Animatic Print Screened

Unable to upload our animatic as a video we printscreened main parts of our film ‘Guardian’ to show the basic outline. When filming our animatic we did not use the actors which we want to use for our short film and so this will change when we start filming and editing. Also the timing was not perfect and therefore when we do start filming some shots may be longer than shown in our animatic.

In this shot we have dialogue which we will edit in once we have filmed the scene. We added an extra 2 seconds to this shot to add our black shot and our white writing of ‘G U A R D’.  For our actual film we have decided to use our own typewriter sounds which we will record and edit in but for the time being we used a copyright free sound online.

In this scene we want it to merge with the shot two shots before. In the shot before ‘Kerry’ closes her eyes because she is sad and in this shot she waked up. In-between is the name of the film and so the two faces link without a huge interruption.

Filming schedule

Preliminary task

Evaluation on editing skills

We went to the CLC centre to edit our preliminary task. I was really interested to know about what kind of software would be able to merge all of our shots so that our scene made sense. The software that we used was Adobe premiere pro CS4 and I haven’t used this before so learning about how it works was difficult at first but I soon got used to it. Once I got used to the software and was given instruction on how to create my scene I was able to take shots that weren’t to be used and weren’t as good as others I had done.

Once I had chosen what shots I was going to use for my final product I made sure I had the three tasks which were going to give me the full marks, the ‘shot-reverse-shot’, ‘match on action’ and ‘180 degree wall’. Also to make each clip run more smoothly you had to check that each action was followed correctly, for example opening to door on one side and then switching to the person walking towards the camera through the opened door and into the room. ‘Merging’ and ‘cutting’ helped with this a lot.

I feel that my final piece was successful. I have included all that was needed for the preliminary task and edited it well. I will be using this software for my coursework as it was quite simple to use and was effective. And so by using it for this task gave me good practice for when I use it for my coursework.

Codes and Conventions

Thriller mood board

My Thriller Mood Board

I created a mood board to find an initial idea of what you would find in a thriller movie. I made sure that I did not use any picture which should violence such as blood and gore as that can easily mistaken from a horror movie. I also didn't use pictures such as drugs and alcohol as we are not to use these things in our coursework and so I used pictures that I would use in my coursework as it will then link with my theme of thriller. i annotated next to the pictures i chose to make it clear what they represented, for example choosing the knife, shows there will be violence but because we see no blood or cutting of the skin, it is up to the audience's imaginations to decide what happens next.

Outline of the opening of my thriller film

Even though I have created this film opening roughly, using different colours to make it clear what will be in the scene and using another colour to show what camera shots I want to use. I think that this will be easy to follow then, and if when filming I change my mind and think it would work in a different way, I can easily go back to my first draft and change it because I have made it clear.