music ideas

Our group have found it difficult to try and get a background music to go with our film. we have looked at many different music websites but we felt tha all of them didnt suit our film. We all agreed with what the music should sound like but just couldnt find anything over the internet. becuase Hannah plays the flute we thought that i may be a good idea for her to play quitely in the background of our film but soon realised that this would be difficult as Hannah is limited to the amounf of songs she can play. We have recently found a peice of music on the interent which is a flute, but only the first 20 seconds we feel would be appripriate for aour film so feel that we should cut it agfter thihs amount of time and then repeate it thoghout the 2 minutes of our film. Although we also have digetic sound that we need to imcorporate into our film towards the ending so we would need to think about how this would work with the music.

About our filming

A few problems have occured to do with the filming process these include trying to find a time when we can all film, this has been difficult becuase there are five of us that have to be free at the same time. After achool is hard becuase it means that we have to miss out on doing homework or coursework for other subjects while we film, and filimg is very time consuming becuase it takes a long time to get the perfect shot. We aslo found it difficult to find a time when our actors Luke and Charli were free becuase this was also taking up there time when it isnt even one of their subjects. Although we organised when we were goibng to film very well. Hannah came up with the idea of creating a facebook page where we were able to connect with eachother whenever we needed to, this made it easier to find a date when we were all free and happy to film. this also allowed us to share information and pictures with each other so we were all up to date.on top of this, we were able to ask other people in our group if we were not sure about something ensureing that everyone understood the task they had been given.

Filming

On our first day of filming we started at 11 o'clock. to beginwith we filmed charli's shots in the bed, to propare for this we did her make-up and positioned her how we have planned acourding to our story board. We also positioned the camera the way we had planned acourding to our story board and shot list. We did not struggle when filming the shots but when we watched it back we realised that most of our shot were shaky and the lighting was not the same in each one, this told us that we had to try to not move the curtains and try to hold the camera more steady. Thrghout the filming proccess we took pictures of what we were filming in order to get our continuety right next time we filmed it. With every shot we filmed it about 10 times in order to get the best shot we could.
When we came to the next lesson after filming we uploaded the shots onto a computer and realised that they were even more shakey that we first thought, overall there is only one good shot that we can use from the whole day of filming, this sows us that we have to be extra careful next time we film in order to get the shots right. we also think that it would be a good idea to try different shot angles to see how that could have an effect, and to not use as many pans and tilts but to just use more cuts, we think this will make it easyer for use filming it and make our opening look more proffessional.

Props

We wanted to create an effect of blood on charli's hand were she has been hand cuffed, for this we used red oli paint, i had previously tried this out and thought that it looked effective. Also we created a bruised look on charli's lower arm to create the effect that she had been there for a long time. to do this we used dark brown, blue, purple and green, eye shadow, we had also previously tried this out and decided that it looked effective. We used hand cuffs that danni had to handcuff charli to the bed, we thought this gace it a more scray and thriller like look to it.

filming schedule

Sunday 21st of January
My house - most of the shooting will take place in my spare room for Charli's scenes, and also in the study area for Lukes scenes.
we will start shooting form 11 in the morning untill 2 for charli's secenes and then 2 onwards for Lukes scenes.

Questions

these are some questions that we asked our target audience in order to gain a better understanding of what they want in their films.
Audience 1:

1. Do you see this opening working through looking at the storyboard?
   Yes.
2. What do you think is good about it?
   The opening is quite confusing as you don't know anything about the characters- why they are there, why they have been drugged and why there is a killer. This makes me curious as to why this is happening, so it makes me want to see the rest of it.
3. What do you think is bad about it?Even though it's a good thing knowing nothing about the plot (making you want to know what is happening and why), it makes the opening quite confusing. You should make a point as to why this is happening.

Audience 2:

1. Do you see this opening working through looking at the storyboard?Yes.
2. What do you think is good about it?I like the cutting back each time to the black screen to show the titles- I think it's really effective as it adds a dark tone to the film.
3. What do you think is bad about it?Perhaps add some music when they are alive- when they are killed take it away to add drama.

Audience 3:

1. Do you see this opening working through looking at the storyboard?
   Yes- could do.
2. What do you think is good about it?I think a positive would be good thriller content- murder and drug use.
3. What do you think is bad about it?Maybe there is too many black screens. That cutting away from each scene could be annoying- however text against a black background would show the titles more clearly.

Male Antagonist

For the male antagonist, we all had roughly the same idea of what he would look like so it was just a case of finding someone that fitted it, we came to the conclusion that luke stanley would fit the role well because  of his height, for the whole of the opening Luke's face will not be shown as when he is on camera it is a point of view shot from Charli's prospective and that will be in soft focus. Luke will be dressed in dark clothing e.g black/navy blue jumper we are aware that this is very cliche but we hope to make our opening unique in different areas.