Filming Process

We arranged to film Saturday the 21st January, we first ordered two coats and a pair of gloves from amazon for under £50. We then borrowed a boom mic, a digital audio recorder and a S60T Stabiliser from school and used a canon G25 that my partner already owned. We met our three actors in Paternoster square where we had planned to film our opening shot, at 2:30, so we would be able to film through the golden hour. We at first encountered some problems as we were told we were not allowed to film there, or on the millenium bridge, our other main location. However, this ended it up working in our favour as we realised smaller, quieter, back alleys would suit the mood of our film much better than the busy millenium bridge, as these would be a far more likely place for an attack to take place. It also helped us avoid getting other people in the film which would make the continuity hard to keep and we still managed to get a very cinematic shot of St Pauls in the background of the girl crossing the road.

Shot List

Shot #	Loc	Info	Shot Type	Camera Movement	Shot Description
SC.1	1
1		EXT EVE	CU/Mid/Wide	CU->Mid->Wide on stabiliser	Friend taps GIRL on shoulder. (GIRL is in group talking to friends, tracking around)
1b		EXT EVE			Alt. shot GIRL is in group talking to friends, tracking around
SC. 2	3
3		EXT EVE/ NIGHT			GIRL begins to walk home
4		EXT EVE	Wide	Side Track	Side Tracking, FOLLOWER walks in
5		EXT EVE	Mid	Tracking backwards, GIRL walks towards camera	Shot In front of GIRL looking at face
6		EXT EVE	C/U	No.	Track feet
SC. 3	2
6		EXT EVE	Mid	Tracking behind GIRL
7…			C/U		ALL SORTS OF BITS, Man’s body and girl’s face. Editing speed picks up.
13, 15		EXT EVE	Mid		FOLLOWER is not there
14		EXT EVE	C/U		GIRL looks scared, looks behind
16		EXT EVE	C/U		Match on Action, GIRL looks behind
17		EXT EVE	C/U		Man’s Hand on Girl’s Shoulder. Mirror of first shot. Right hand right shoulder. Cut to Black.

1 – Paternoster Square

2 – Millennium Bridge
3 – Street

Font

Aharoni is the best font 

for our purposes - it is 

bold and clearly readable, 

whilst not being too 

obnoxious or weird.

We also liked The Quick, 

but decided that it did not have a serious enough 

tone for our film.

Similar Media Texts

We have drawn inspiration from a number of similar media texts. Theses include the visuals in Sin City - a very noir-esque feel, with touches of colour to emphasise the girl's vulnerability or to pick her out in the crowd.

In after effects, I will use 'Leave Color' and mask out any areas that shouldn't be highlighted. I will also increase the saturation to highlight these colours and pick them out further.

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.