Thursday, 17 February 2011

Target audience and Rating


We thought about the audience we were going to target our final at and we thought a 12a age certificate was appropriate. We compared our final to other thriller movies that we had seen and believed ours had minimal violence and the language used was not very strong either. We thought if a child was to watch it, they would have to be supervised which is what 12a stands for.

Development of Final Task

We have thought some more about our final piece and we have developed and edited a few things in which we are going to do. We are keeping the idea of filming in a car and knocking over our friend. We didn't want our piece to look like a trailer so have focused more on making it look like an opening scene of a thriller. Our plan for our final piece now consists of:
  • The opening starts with the car driving around the estate, along the winding roads, creating a great atmosphere as we are surrounded by tall trees, at its being filmed at night time.
  • The next scene is of Me and Anna in the car, two friends having a good time, oblivous to what is going on around us, we are listening to our favourite music and singing loudly and messing around.
  • Anna then recieves a text message on her phone and is excited about what it says so she shows me.
  • I then loose control of the car and we hit something.
  • We suddenly stop, unaware of what we have just hit.
  • Both of us get out of the car and see the girl lying in front of the car with blood running down her face.
  • The girls are scared and don't know what to do.
  • Anna suggests we tell the police and I disagree as I don't want to get in trouble for the event that had taken place.
  • We argue about it and decide to drive off, but before doing so I\take the young girls necklace.
  • The next part of the scene will be a few weeks later..I go to visit Anna at her house to tell her that I've been seeing things and that I'm convinced what happened a few weeks ago has come back to haunt me.
  • Anna thinks I'm being stupid and am imagining things.
  • The necklace is a key prop in our task as the necklace is used as a reminder of what happened that night.
We have looked at all the camera angles in which we are going to use when filming our final piece.
  • Long shot
  • Wide angle shot
  • Close up
  • Two shot
  • Low angle shot
  • High angle shot
We have also thought a lot about the sounds we are going to include, and we had to consider the atmospshere they were going to create.

Friday, 11 February 2011

The Planning of Final Piece






For our final task we decided to create story boards to give us a bigger and better idea of what we were doing. By doing this it allowed us to develop our ideas, from the plot, to the camera shots and angles we were going to use as well as sound effects and props etc. We looked in to all the type of thrillers we could of done and we decided to go with action thriller. Our final task is mainly set in a car and is very action filled. The story boards definitely helped us in the planning and developing of our final.