The editing software we will be using

We used Final Cut Pro as our editing software we believed that this is a much more straightforward app to use rather then IMovie because it allowed you to use a larger scale of editing techniques, rather on iMovie when you are restricted to a limited use. Final cut was helpful in 

have are film edited to the best possible way it could have been and allowed our ideas as a group to be used. 

Storyboard

This is the final storyboard for our thriller opening. Shots will be changed to fit with the filming taking place and we will extend every shot, to make it the best possible film it can be. 

Character Profile: Kidnapper

We decided as a group that the kidnapper would only be seen once in our thriller film because we want to still base it around this young girl. We decided to go for the stereotypical approach for the villain and decided he would wear a black tracksuit the black tracksuit is very stereotypical of danger when you think of young adults. The specific colour of black is always associate with danger or death like the colour red and we thought we wouldn't chose the stereotypical colour of red and decided for black as it is an unconventional colour when you think of thriller films.
I hope that this comes across to people when they look at our thriller and they think the costumes we chose were a good idea.

This would be used a stereotypical image of
the kidnapper.

Thriller Storyline

Our thriller opening is about the disappearance of a young girl. who we see playing in a large field with a red balloon  and she is seen being quite happy and content with what she is doing, up until she spots this mysterious person(kidnapper). The audience never see what happens to the young girl it just implies that she was taken or killed, through the search party at the end. At the end of the sequence the young girls headband is found and it eludes that somebody has the young girl or she has been killed. It ends deliberately like this to leave it in the minds of the audience, what happened to the girl.

Target Audience

demographics :

Age : 16+
Gender: both 

Relationships: for couples and friends 

Education: sixth form and college students

Psychographics:

Interests: watching thriller films and likes socially with others

Wanting to go see the films as it interests them. 

A good to watch the film with a friend or partner because I want people to talk about what they have just seen and then go on to tell others about it as well and this will help with the technology we have today to let people communicate and talk about the film.

We have chosen to have the age group like this because from prior research I have found that this is the most common age group for people to watch thriller films and go to the cinema to see films, making it quite clear that we should target that age group of people.
The only issue with it being 16+ is that it goes to anyone who is over the age of 16 and people being over 30 may not like our thriller films or going to the film in general.

They are young teenagers that go to school and look sociable as they are around everyone else and then they probably go out on weekends to the cinema as a big group, so our film will be good for them to watch.

 

Mood Board

Mood board from Shan3009

Specific roles within the group

Shannon Nash(me)- Director

                                Assisting editor

                                Cast decided 

Kirsty Allen- Head Editior 

                   Actress

                   Music assistant

Joshua Pedro- Director assistant

                        Music assistant

                        Creative license

Oliver Nichol- Dovell - music director

                                   Editing supervisor

                                   Cast supervisor

Media Proposal

Changing our idea

Unfortunately we have had to change our idea, as the thriller before hand was becoming very difficult to film and edit. The idea we had was based around Dexter however we took the storyline of the title sequence from Dexter to literally, meaning our opening became too abstract to the sense that it no longer made any sense. A clip of our old footage will be released onto here so you will be able to see the basic outline of what we wanted to achieve.

Target Audience Questionnaire

This is the research questionnaire my group and I have put out in order to decide our new target audience.

Meeting Minutes

What we discussed in the meeting:

1. Characters
2. Costumes
3. Location
4. Editing and Music Software
5. Storyline
6. Storyboard
7. Casting
8. Responsibilities within the group

Characters
 As a group we decided on their being only two characters in the clip. The main character being a young girl(teenager) and a villian who we only see small parts off. We also decided that Kirsty(who is part of our group) will be our main character because we don't want to have to relie on others to turn up for filming.

Costumes
The main character will be wearing a red/pink dress with a pink headband. We decided this in the meeting because we want the colours to represent youth and danger. The villian will be wearing black trainers, blue/black hoodie and black trousers. We thought we would go very streotypical of a villian because their is no speech in our thriller we thought it wouldn't of been able to be shown he is dangerous if he wasnt in these clothes.

Location
We have based our thriller around nature as it represents innocence and also the loss of innocence through the way of damage nature. It is set in three different places but is meant to look like one place. The first place is a field and forest, we decided this would be a good place to film because we can show contrasting atmospheres.

Editing and Music software
We decided that we would just use the MAC's software which is Final Cut Pro for our editing of the thriller film and Garage Band for making our own music for our thriller film.

Storyline
This was the hardest point to discuss in the meeting because we really wanted to put together something that it going to engage the audience into watching. In the end we decided that the stroyline is, that we are going back in time to a month before this girl is found dead and all the decisions and paths she takes to end up where she is, by being followed be her so called "killer". Although our storyline sounds like we are giving too much away we have decided only to use half of this storyline in the opening to our thriller film.

Responsibilities
There are four of us in our group so we need to distribute the amount of roles equally. Myself and Oliver, have filmed the majority of the opening with the help of Kirsty and Josh. We all decided that we want to have a role in editing the film but Josh has got the overall judgement in what stays and go's. Oliver is in charge of music and making it fit with our thriller film. Kirsty's job is executive producer and I myself is the director of everything that goes on in our group.

Character Profile : Girl

For our main character of the girl we decided that we wanted her wearing an off red colour dress instead of the stereotypical colour of white, to represent her innocence and the danger that she is in. The dress is to symbolise her being this young girl also the dress is quite old fashioned as we want her to be as unique as possible. The colour red is to symbolise the danger and the loss of innocence that this girl encounters during the film opening. The girl also wears a pink bow headband as this is really used to emphasise her childlike features and it later becomes quite an important prop to our thriller, we used pink as the headband because it shows she is this young girl. We decided we would unconventional colours to portray an innocent girl because we don't want our thriller opening to be stereotypical and predictable.

Using the tripod

This is the specific outline of the tripod we will being using to shoot our thriller opening with. This is a sturdy tripod that had a spirit level to no whether the camera would focus or not. 

This is how the plate to attaches to the camera and then to the tripod to securely place the camera on the tripod, to remove the plate from the camera you have to twist the screw underneath the plate which will release the camera. 

This is another picture of the plate and how those two screws attach to the bottom of the camera. 

First shoot schedule.

We had it  one the 5th, 7th, 12th, 18th, 19th, and 24th November 2014, however because we were filming outside we didn't get the chance to film every time because we relied on the weather to be ok and it wasn't half the time so it hinder how much we could get filmed during school hours.