Characters, Costumes, Profile Shots

Ace of Spades-

Reece will be playing the character of a drunk man. As a group we decided that his appearance would be relatively rough. In order to achieve this look, his costume will consist of a dirty white t-shirt, rough denim jeans and worn out footwear, he should also be carrying an beer bottle in his hand. This overall look gives the audience a feeling of intensity.

King of Aces- Aman Dhillon 

Aman's character is to be portrayed as high class and quite reserved. Therefore we have decided his character should be dressed in a suit and black tie. From his scene the audience will not gather much information about his character. His character will add the aspect of suspense and suspiciousness. He will be seen walking off the platform of a train station and making eye contact with one of the other characters.

                    

Jack of Clubs- Luke

This Character is to be portrayed as another mysterious person, but there seems to be some underlying history between King of Aces and himself. This is portrayed to the audience within the train scene. As the King of Ace walks off the platform he notices Jack of Clubs smoking a cigarette outside the train station. Luke's character will be dressed in a white shirt and trousers.

                   

Queen of Hearts- Chelsea's Mum 

Chelsea's Mum Character is to be portrayed as a lady with class. To represent Daisy as a lady with class her costume will be simple and modest. She will be wearing and tight fitted skirt that falls just below the knee, paired with a simple black cardigan and a cream scarf. Her character is very sly, because in the first scene she acts as though she takes orders, however towards the end, the audience will begin to realise that she is the leader of the game.

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Planning process what we need to do next- FINAL DECISIONS

we are now at the final stages of our planning, we have a detailed idea of what we want to film and the majority of locations we will be filming at.
we are going to need 5 different locations to film 1 of the places is to film where the main events are going to take place. The next four locations will be used to show the entrance the four other characters in the opening sequence.

Things we need to finalise over during the next lesson:
- who we are using for our actors
- the final locations with images
- final list of props needed
-story boarding and script
- costumes

sound and possible film titles for a western thriller

Common elements of western film (westerns, cowboys and indians) music:* the beat sounds like a horse galloping* harmonica* old-sounding piano* whistling* violins* brass instruments, e.g. trumpets, that give a slight mexican/mariachi feel* simple, clean electric guitar solos, backed by classical guitar rhythms* jews harp* gun sounds* horse sounds* native american ("indian") warcries* bell 

Typical Western Film Titles:

Cowboys Love To Rope And Ride Home Home On The Range Giddy Up Git Along Lil' Doggy I'm Just A Country Boy I Want To Be A Cowboy (Cowgirl) I Want To Grow Up To Be A Cowboy (Cowgirl) Little Buck-A-Roo Our Little Cowboy Real Cowboys Know The Taste Of Dirt Rodeo King In Training Rodeo Queen In Training Stampede Thank God, I'm A Country Boy Wanted Wild Wild West The ones in red are options for possible film titles that are well suited to our genre choice.

22nd January 2013

Over the last few days as a group we split up to do some research on some hybrids, they consisted of sic-fi thrillers, western thrillers, comedy thrillers and horror thriller.

By doing this activity we as a group were going to come back and make a decision as to what was going to be the most unique to execute:

From the research we gathered, collectively as a group we decided to go with the idea of a western thriller.

By choosing a western thriller we have given ourselves more to work with and more diverse routes for a sequence.

Final Cut- Continuity editing task

When filming the final cut we had to take into account our problems from the first cut.
we paid more attention on making sure that the actors head was not cut off the screen during filming as this would significantly lower our grade.
If you notice that on the final cut the camera was a lot stiller that the fist cut as we had got more familiar with using cameras and how to handle them.
Our use of SRS was a lot more improved as they were filmed over one of the actors shoulders.

finally we one thing we added was that before myself and Aman walked through the doors there was an establishing shot to introduce the scene a lot better.

planning

we have begun planning our final piece and at this stage we are evaluating our research and trying to think outside of the box to think of a unique thriller we could produce.

we came to this conclusion because our initial plan was too cliche. 

initial idea:

overall this idea seemed too cliche, and the typical predictable horror film. The problem with this kind of idea is that we would have been limited to the diversity of shots we can use. To solve this as a group we decided to research different types of hybrids. The hybrids we narrowed it down to were as follows: 

• western thrillers
• romance thrillers 
• comedy thrillers
• horror thrillers 

from our research we decided to go with the idea of a western thriller. 

now we have made this decision we are going to start story boarding and creating a shot list so we have a guide line to follow when it comes to filming.

Update 2nd april-
from our progression throughout the term, as a group we have come to the conclusion that our title sequence, follows the codes and conventions and a psychological thriller. 

Where are we at this point?

til date we have finished filming the basic editing task twice the second shot being our improved piece. we are in the process of editing the second shot, our plan is to have it completed by Friday 10th january.

after this we will need to work efficiently as a group to fit in deadlines, so this means splitting our group up to work on different tasks and meeting outside of lessons to consult and share ideas.