COSTUME:

We want plian suits (black or grey), nothing to fancy like a gun belt because it is early in the morning and the people are just getting into the office. The suits will look like this-
                                                                             



For the women office we want her in smart skirt, not trousers because we want her to be femanine because she is the only female officer. It will look like this-

 

 

 

CASTING LIST:

Philippa Barrett:

Jason Mazzocchi:

Abi Hoyle

Phill Ward





This is a rough plan of what the room will look like.

Here are a few images of what we want in our office space which will be built in the media studio. The most obvious  prop will be the open cases board which suggests this is a dectective office. Bellow is an example of a board which we will have.

Yesterday our group showed our pilot to a focus group. We had mixed reviews throughout the showing but over all they liked it except for the ending.

For the ballet sequence they loved the elegance of it but felt it went on for a little to long. I think this is something we cannot change because we need this sequence to be long enough to show the credits. I feel we will just have to get more interesting shots to keep the audience interested. Another point made by one person was that our ballerina was not good enough which I felt was a very unfair comment. Although we are not using the ballerina shown in the video I felt she did an excellent job.
The focus group were all girls which is slightly biased because if we showed it to boys they may have a different op ion. We did however have Phil our teacher with us and he thought when we come to shoot the real thing we should hardly see the ballerinas face, we should just concentrate on close ups of her feet and arms etc. This ties in with what another person from the focus group thought. The ballerina in this scene will not be our main character but naturally the person from the focus group thought she was. If we go with Phil's idea about close ups which means we will hardly see her face this will hopefully suggest she is not a main character. Personally I have seen films which open with characters who end up not playing a big role in the film even so I see where the focus group are coming from. In some ways it may be a good idea to make the audience think she is a main character and then when she gets killed early on the audience will be surprised.

A great example of this happening is in the film "Psycho". The films starts by following Marion Crane but shortly she is killed off and the audience are left shocked!

The focus group did not like the way we filmed the car scene which I agree with. They liked the idea of the car scene but they thought it was to much of a jump from the ballet sequence. We presented the idea about the crime scene office instead of the car scene and they preferred it which is good. Now we are moving forward with the office scene and we are currently casting our actors.

confusion over what to follow up the diescrete sequence with, to check I have gone and analysed another film opening to see how thery bridge the titles and opening scene, this is what I have found...

 

 

given this we are thinking of ...

To begin with we had to work out who the main characters are in the film, obviously the psycho obsessed with ballet dancers/perfection, but also the detectives who would be trying to track him down before more girls go missing.

Most of the thrillers I have watched start with a normal day. From the pictures above from the film se7ven we can see it starts with a establishing shot, then we are introduced to the main character.I feel we should go with a clear simple opening like se7ven because there are not many thrillers which start with an action packed sequence.

 

What would the detective be like? Tired, stressed? Married, single or divorced? Maybe he is in the process of a divorce? Perhaps drinks too much because of the horrible stuff he has done in his work. So then what should we tell the audience about him in the first few shots? To establish what he is like we could put a ring on his finger which would tell the audience he was married or there could be a picture of children on his desk which would tell us he is a family man.

Seeing him at the start of an average day gives us an idea of what his routine is and this can tell us a lot about a person, how much care do they take in their appearance, what they like for breakfast well(are they healthy?)

To make the audience believe that he is a real detective it is important that we make the office look convincing so I did some research into British police dramas to see what the offices of murderer detectives look like, props, set, lighting etc.

 

 

 

From this we can see that most offices have a main board which holds alot of information. There are office desks with lamps which shows they work late at night. Unless we cannot find a room with all this in we will have to create this office space the media studio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Below is the rough copy of our thriller. We could not use the ballerina we wanted so instead we used another dancer who was extremely good. We spent more time filming the ballet sequence which was good because it ended up looking good but it was bad because the car scene did not look good.

Filming the ballet scene was much more difficult than I thought because it is very hard to film someone who is moving all over the place. Close up's of the feet proved to be very difficult because in ballet the feet move very quickly so we had to be quick with the camera work.
When we come to film the real thriller we need to know exactly what shots we want because when we filmed the pilot we spent a lot of time standing there trying to think of more shots when we should have been filming.

The car scene did not work well at all. It did not look real at all and the sound effects were not great. We are now having to rethink whether or not we should have the car scene at all? We will sit down and discuss.

In the real thriller we want to make the ballet studio much more darker and have soft lighting on the ballerina which will make it look elegant.

This is where we will be filming our ballet scene. This is a proper ballet studio which is great because it comes with mirrors and ballet bars. Its a very simple studio which is good because it won't take the attention away from the dancer. We will have to move the back ground objects like the television because it looks unprofessional.