First look at our old filming.

Before we came up with our final idea for our thriller opening we didn't have a complete different storyline and a different approach on how to film it. We thought an abstract idea based around the hit show "Dexter" would be a really good way to approach this type of thriller. However it became very difficult because we didn't have any narrative and our storyboard wasn't really helping with what we were wanting to achieve, in the end we decided it would be best if we filmed a whole new thriller opening that took and naturalistic approach. In the clip below this is the beginning to the old thriller we were shooting, the editing for this thriller was a lot easier because we knew the direct effect we wanted it to have on our audience. This old thriller had a specific target audience of those who liked violence and crime and wouldn't appeal to our target audience of 16+

Planning the week

This week my aim is to finish the rest of the filming of our thriller film and start all the editing and I will split my week like this:

Monday: Filming at location 1( Crystal Palace Park)

Tuesday: Filming at location 2(Kelsey Park)

Wednesday: Add the footage onto Final Cut and decide the order of our thriller film( Try and spend no longer than 30-40mins on it) Go through and cut unnecessary footage and scenes that are too long or don't need to be used(this should only take 1 hour)

Thursday: Add all the effects(if needed) and start to make our thriller music on Garage Band( we should spend 2 hours on making the start of our music using the research we found).  Keep looking at others examples for inspiration.

Friday: Continue making our music and get a start on our typography, making sure it fits with our thriller perfectly.

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.

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.

Storyboard for our old thriller

This is a quick summary of the thriller storyboard, the ideas will be adapted according to the day of filming. For example the kiwi cutting will be edited to fit with other examples. 

Preliminary task