Fatigue and Enthuiasm

We are scheduled to leave to go to our location at around 6pm on Tuesday 10th February. This is straight after the school day, so we may have the issue of being very tired. This may negatively affect our mood and opinions about going to film.

As a result, I am going to try and keep my enthusiasm high and try and uplift the other members of the group.

Mise-en-scene Elements in Thriller Video

Potential Weather Issues

 Forecast for Tuesday 10th February


 

Here is the forecast for Tuesday 10th February. As we are filming at night time, the 3 degree forecast will potentially be an issue. We will need to wear lots of warm clothing to keep up our morale so we can make out shoot as productive as possible. Also, keeping the actors warm is a priority, as we need them to be comfortable so they can do their jobs properly.

Shot List

Shot List

1. Woman is going down in the elevator, checks briefcase and locks it- high angle, security camera effect, 10-15 seconds

2. Elevator doors open, she leaves, camera is in front of her- tracking, L.S, 5 seconds.

3. Camera in elevator, looking at woman walking away, then doors close exactly in line with woman- extreme long shot, 5 seconds.

4. Camera inside car boot, tracking out of it, at first boot it slightly open, but while camera is tracking out, it opens completely  and we can see the man from behind- maybe over the shoulder, tracking, 7 seconds.

5. Tracking shot from over the shoulder of the man, he puts his earphone in, camera continues to track and stops at his phone where he presses play-this music is now our soundtrack- use this as diagetic sound, then when we cut to woman, its used as non-diagetic sound, 5 seconds.

6. Camera tracking her, just sees her legs/feet from under the cars- long shot, 3-4 seconds

7. Woman walking towards the car, opens the door and gets into the car- camera man is standing opposite side of car, tracks the camera around the front of the car and stops when she closes the door, long/medium/close up, 7-10 seconds.

8.  Use assistant to drive the car, place camera on tripod under the ''EXIT'' and the car drives past it- slight low angle, 4 seconds.

9. low angle shot of man walking out a couple of steps- 2-3 seconds.

10. POV shot where we can see his feet and the gun, then a tilt to see the car coming round the corner- 6-8 seconds.

11. Camera shot from inside the car, can see the man in the distance, starts to brake- mid shot/over the shoulder, 5 seconds.

12.Man is standing with the gun, pointed at the car and shoots, tracking shot, from L.S. to M.S., 3 seconds

 

13.Black screen, sound of scream and tyres, 3-4 seconds

 

14.Man comes to check if she's dead or not, he opens the door of the car and looks inside, low angle wide shot, 5 seconds

 

15.If possible-POV of the man tacking the case from passenger's seat and looks inside the case after putting it on the front of the car-  8-10 seconds

16.He is walking away from the car, camera is in front of him and it goes up from his legs to his head(at first-C.U., then-M.S.), he makes music louder on his earphones, 8-10 seconds

Scene Outline

Here is the order in which we want to shoot our thriller:

1. Elevator/stairs scene, using security camera effects possibly
    -use high angles, long shots

2. Woman walking through the car park
      -use tracking shots, show feet only

3. The killer preparing hid gun, attaching suppressor, cleaning etc.
    -use close ups, mid shots, extreme close ups

4. Woman opening car door and getting in car
    -long shots, close ups, maybe use a shot from the back seat

5. Driving round the car park to exit
    -close ups, POV, maybe shots from outside car looking onto face

6. Killer approaches and points gun at woman
    -shots from inside car looking out of windscreen, low angle of killer slowly walking, close up of gun

7. She sees the man but its too late, she gets shot and car crashes.

8. Screen goes black and have an overlaying soundtrack

9.Killer moves closer to check if she is dead

10. He takes the briefcase with files in

11. Walks away

Producing a Shooting Schedule

Producing a Shooting Schedule

Planning a schedule won't be a problem for us-we have got only 2 actors and we need them during the entire scene. Also, we don't have any other locations, just the car park, so we only need to organize the order in which we shoot our scenes, which will be in the scene outline. We will be at our location for around 4-6 hours.

Confirming Actors Availability

Unfortunately, both of our male actors we wanted to use we unable to do it on the day that we have been given to shoot. This was frustrating, but we have found a new actor and we are still happy with who we have. On top of this, the woman we wanted was also unavailable and so too was our backup. So similarly to the male actors, we have chosen a different woman to be in it. They have both confirmed that they are available on the day of the shoot.

Here is a picture of me asking for confirmation:

Here is confirmation from our male actor Mike:

Here is the confirmation email in which Theresa has confirmed she can take part in our shoot.

Designing Sets

We currently have no plans to build anything to use in our set. However, what we must take into account is the placement of the cars, which is a crucial part of our set design. For example, we want to have tracking shots of the woman walking into the car park from an elevator, so we must place a car in a certain to do this.

 

Confirming Locations

 It is confirmed that the car park is situated in Guildford so it is reasonably close to our school. We will get there on the day by using school transportation via a minibus. 

We have ultimately chosen this location to shoot our thriller as it can be very effective creating tension and suspense if the right camera work is done. Multistory car parks at times can also be quite dangerous and scary late at night, which we hope to reflect in our thriller.