Costume

Main Protagonist Girl
We will dress her mostly red to highlight her vulnerability and the danger that surrounds her.
Hair Pins - £3.49 from eBay


Pumps - £12.00 from Asos

Coat - £13.99 - from Ebay

Following Man
We are dressing him solely in black so he will remain hidden, and blend into the crowds. As black is a common clothing colour we should mostly be able to use clothes that we already own.
Black boots, coat and jeans

Narrative

• The film opens with us seeing a shot of the girl bing tapped on the shoulder by one of her friends, which will parallel the final shut off the film. 
• We then see her talking to her friends, seemingly happy, before saying goodbye to walk home alone
• We see a series of wide shots of the girl, highlighting her as isolated and vulnerable
• The audience starts to hear loud footsteps and heavy breathing over the top of shots of the girl
• There is then a series of close ups of the follower crosscut between a close ups of the girl's face 
• More of the follower is gradually revealed, though the audience never see his face
• We will see some shots where the follower is not there, playing of the idea of paranoia and whether the follower is really there of if the girl is imagining it
• It will end with a shot of the followers hand on the girl's shoulder, then she will turn around, it will cut to black and there will be a loud scream

Audience Research - Vox Populi

My partner and I went to talk to several more people in the 11-17 age range as this was the most popular age of the responses to our questionnaire. We filmed us asking them some follow up questions and told them about our proposed idea for out thriller. Everyone we we talked to seemed intrigued by our idea and said they would be interested to watch the film after it is finished.

Sound & Music

For the end of our film, we want to cut to black and have a diegetic scream from the girl - this will help to create tension and intrigue the audience as to what happens next. We also want to enhance the diegetic sound of her footsteps and her breathing to intensify the piece.

As concerns the music, we hope to design our own soundtrack for the film in a music creation software such as GarageBand or Logic Pro (depending on which we have access to.) We want the audio to start quietly dramatic and build slowly to the scream at the end.

Idents and Titles - After Making

I had a go at creating some of the idents I mentioned before using adobe after effects, here is the results of my work...

I did another one (the glass one) which was my favourite, but I was unable to save it as the file was too large, so I can't upload it. As this looked the best, it is likely we use for the title of our film as it introduces the creepy, and mysterious aspect of our thriller.

My least favourite is the spin orbs one, which looks too much like it is for a sci fi film or television program such as Doctor Who.

The hexagonal one we feel would fit the best for our ident, though we are yet to decide what will be the name for our production company.

Locations - After Scouting

This weekend, Emma and I went location scouting. We decided against the Barbican centre as we found Paternoster Square, which was much more visually interesting. 




Furthermore, we found that we liked the Millenium bridge as it was also extremely cinematic. 







 
To add a level of verisimilitude, we decided to plan an actual walking route for the girl to follow. We did this because we are using well-known locations that people will recognise, so we need to ensure that the film makes sense.

Idents and Tittles- First Look

For our ident we wanted something with a creepy feeling to match the film. We had a look on video co pilot at possible dents that we could make on after effects ourselves. I liked this 'Glass' Ident and my partner, George liked the Spin and Polygon Idents below

Casting

Young Girl: Ruby Ballantyne - A friend of mine whois currently taking A Level drama and is an aspiring actor

Following Man: We are planning on asking one of our fathers or tall male friends

Other Friends: Olivia Bremener, Ashley Whyte, Ellie Thompson - We have selected several friends from other schools who are also taking media A Level to act as the friends

Audience Research - Questionnaire Results

Here is the results to our questionnaire, we have learnt that...

• We can the majority of our responses from 11 - 17 year old so we will am to target our film towards this age range. 
• There was a relatively even split in gender telling us our film should appeal to both a male and female audience.
• Nearly half of the people who took the questionnaire watch films every week showing how in demand films are at the moment.
• If we where realising the full film we would need to try to get it on a Video on Demand service e.g. Netflix as this is how 50% of people watch films.
• The most popular sub genre of thriller by a long way was psychological which fits very well with our opening we are planning on making.
• 93% of people said they would watch a film with a female protagonist so this means having a female main character should have very little detrimental impact on our film.
• 60% of people chose 15 as their preferred certificate so we will aim so make ours this certificate, though the opening may end only a 12 as we will not show any violence, but with the rest of the film it will likely be a 15.
• 53% of people chose to see a film because of it having an interesting plot which we hope ours will be.
• As can be seen by the favourite films people like a wide variety of films that make the viewer think and are powerful.

Location - Initial Plan

For our location we wanted to shoot on and around Millenium Bridge in the City of London. We chose this location because we think it looks cinematic. For this same reason, we chose to open the film with her friends to meeting, at the Barbican. We took screenshots from google maps street view to show these locations, see below, though we are yet to go location scouting. Our plan is to go this weekend and we will update with photos and a more definite plan for our locations after this.