Newspaper scene insperation for our film - Emma

These screen shots are from the opening scenes of the film 'The Disappearing'

we have decided to use the focus pull and shallow depth of field like in this clip to slowely reveal the newspaper in our film.

 we will also use extreme close up's during the scene to create more impact and focus on the subject.

Expermient 2 Flashback scene - Emma & Frankie

Following our previous experiment, we decided to do another. In our opening we plan to do a disorientating shot in the car park, of the camera circling the subject. Once again, we realised that this would be a difficult thing to do, so we practiced before.
By taking a camera and a tripod into the college car park, we practiced a range of ways to do this shot, and then chose the one we thought worked best.
The shot that we chose, was the subject holding the tripod against them, so the camera was close to their face. This created a disorientating yet effective circling shot.

The cupboard scene filming experiments - Frankie & Emma

In our opening, we planned to include a scene in which some books fall out of a cupboard. We realised that this may have been a difficult shot, therefore we decided to experiment and practice.

We found a cupboard that look similar to the one we would be using in our opening, and filmed the same pile of books falling from 4 different angles.

Through experimenting with the angles and the technique of making the books fall, we found the perfect angle for our scene.

Our Story Board - Frankie & Emma

our synopsis - Emma

Our opening will end with the teacher getting in her car and driving away. She will continue to have flash backs which will gradually become more intense and reveal that the child’s parents have blamed her for the death of their child. The film will then follow our main character to a church, where there is a two year anniversary memorial of the child’s death. This brings up old memories from the past as she is then confronted by the parents once again, they do not think she should be there and doesn’t deserve to show her respects. The audience will then be shown that the parents then try to get her fired, take her to court and cause her life to change dramatically. The film would end with the teacher winning the court case and her life is given back to her.

Research- Clip From Flight Plan and Nightmare on Elm Street - Mia

This clip shows examples of both restricted narrative and a disorientating shot circling the character. These are both shots that we would like to include in our thriller opening.

This clip is useful in the way that it shows the flashback as we would like to include a number of flashbacks in the thriller opening. It also shows the parents reaction to a potential threat which we hope to recreate.

Permission for our location - Frankie

We have been given written permission to film at Lindfield Primary School by Mr Still Deputy Head.

pre-production planning, -health and safety/location survey

pre-production planning - Everyone

Initial Ideas

Open with teacher packing away

finds students book-Name

Blows dust off

Scared, shuts down, throws book in draw

Triggers FLASH BACK

chaos- sirens, paramedics, paper cuttings

teacher leaves school

more flashback

imagines boy in school, paranoid

List of Roles

Storyboard artists- Emma & Frankie
Lighting-Emma
Prop acquisition-Frankie &Isaac (fake newspaper)
location scout- Frankie
Camera operators- Isaac & Mia
Sound designer- Isaac
Script writer- Mia

Lighting

Throughout our opening, we will be using artificial lighting as we will be shooting inside, in the evening. We shall use low key lighting and the school settings main lights to help build tension and fear in our sequence.

Props

Class room scene- General classroom props (books, paper, students work, pens, pencils etc) to create a sense of normality, clearly show that it is a school. 

We will also use a news paper in the flashback scene to inform the audience of what has happened.

Script

- When Rachel experiences a 'flashback' - newspaper report read out - Edward's mother:  'If something had been done differently, my son would've been alive today.'


- Rachel hallucinating - 'Stop it Rachel. It's not real, stop it.'

We have decided not to include a lot of script as, from our research, we have found that thriller openings tend to use limited dialogue and we only have one main character therefore not much speech is necessary.