Costume Pictures and analysis

We chose these sort of costumes; trainers, hoodies and jogging bottoms because we thought about the weather and the season as it is Winter. The timings we are going to be filming will be after college hours e.g 5pm. So the weather would be quite cold and cloudy. Plus we thought that it would be more appropriate to wear these sort of costumes as our film video is about a a group of 4-5 students going on a camping trip for a night in the park. So for that reason we thought we would wear warm clothing.

Animatic Storyboard

Researched Location Shots

This is an image of part of Alexandra Park, we thought that we could experiment quite alot in Alexandra Park as it is quite closed ( meaning that it's not an open space, things can be hidden, for example the dead body in our video).

These are images that were taken of Chorlton Water Park, we thought this location would have been good because nearby is the River Mersy, which would have been good to put in our video as we would have different background surroundings. However we also thought that it's not really that closed in as Alexandra Park is, it's more open and it's more of a place where families would come. Not really like a forest type as we would desire.

Chorlton Water Park has really nice scenery , as you can see in this image. However you can actually see from this image that the Water Park seems to be quite an open space .

Production Treatment

The opening of a short film: ''The Last One Standing" with the genre of thriller and horror.

Duration: 2 minutes.

Audience: Our intended audience is both male and females with the age group of 15-20.

Resume: At the beginning of our opening sequence we will show a group of students who have gone on a camping trip. However two students go to get some logs of wood for the fire, however the students remaining in the camp hear a scream.. and wonder if it was the two students who went to get wood, then once they search for the students they realise that there dead !....

Suggested Elements:

• Costumes- there are no particular costumes for our video however it will be warm clothing as it will be dark and cold in the park ( hats, gloves, hoodies etc).

• Props- logs, fire and false blood.
  

• Our location- Alexandra Park

Recording days:

It should take us approximately two days maximum to film the clips for our thriller video. This would be because we need the specific lighting e.g. sun set, then darkness.
For our post production we will take approximately 1-2weeks maximum. And we should take about 2 weeks maximum to complete our blog.

Evaluation of Preliminary task

Good points:

1. In our preliminary task video we used a variety of different shot types. At the beginning of our video we had a match cut to show the passage of time as ‘Character A’ gets to the top of the stairs, to make it more interesting.

2. We then used a high angle shot as ‘Character A’ walks through the corridor. This is useful because it’s a variety of shots to keep the video more interesting again. Plus this shot shows the slight surroundings.

3. We also used a close up of ‘Character A’ opening the door; there was a close up of his hand on the handle. We used this shot to show the audience that a different scene is about to occur.

4. A close up to an eye line match from ‘Character A’ to ‘Character B’ to show the audience what ‘Character A’ is looking at.

5. We then used a shot reverse shot of both characters to show the audience their conversation from different points.

6. We kept by the 180° degrees rule, by keeping ‘Character B’ on the left and ‘Character A’ on the right.

Bad points:

1. We noticed that throughout the video our camera showed to be blurry when the scenes were filmed.

2. A change of costume from ‘Character A’ might have distracted the audience.

3. The final panning shot was hand held and very shaky.

Preliminary task video

Analysis of the opening of the usual suspects

The Usual Suspect is a thriller genre film that appears to be detective investigation of a murder. This is shown in the scene as a character is killed.

The credits consists of a pan of the camera going over water, this is often associated with murder as frequently murders hide body's in water areas. The time of day is clear as the water is dark and lights can be seen reflecting off the surface.

After the credits we see a lighter with a close-up of a lighter which then cuts into a mid show and moves upwards as he lights his cigarette allowing us to see his facial features and clothing. He appears to be expecting someone to kill him as he is calm and relaxed when the appears on the scene later in the sequence.

We then see a key prop of a leaking barrel which appears to be leaking petrol or some other flammable material this fore shadows and explosion or major event. After the victim attempts to light a trail of the oil the camera tracks it's progress before it is stopped by the villain.

The camera at this point is at a low angle and gradually moves upwards to look at a man standing above the trail. This makes him seem powerful and he is later shown moving down the stairs by a still shot of a shadow moving downwards. This is typical of a thriller genre as it doesn't show who the is or what he looks like.

The next shot is an close up on his feet moving along the deck of the ship before it cuts to an mid-shot of his body but is still careful not to reveal the facial features of the character. He is shown to be wearing full black clothing and a trench coat. This gives the impression that he is about to commit the murder and this is later when he pulls out a pistol from his coat.

The victim seems relaxed and calm, this gives us the impression that he was expecting to be killed.

After this the camera cuts to two still shots of parts of the ship as gun shots can be heard in the distance (diegetic sound). This confirms that there has been a murder.

Opening six shots of Preliminary task

We have filmed the first six shots of our Preliminary task and begun to edit these shots. We have edited the six shots to show continuity editing as character A walks up the stairs and then walks through the corridor towards the door where character B is. We have used contunity editing to keep the viewer watching and not think that its been edited, so they dont notice the editing. Along these six shots, there are; medium shots, close ups, high angle shots and a match cut. We are now going to begin to film and edit the next final shots for the Preliminary task.