One page pitch

Deaden hikes (anagram for ‘hide and seek’)

Genre: Horror Thriller

Length: 122 minutes (2 minutes opening)

Target audience: 15-24 years old

Audience appeal:

•Young characters- target audience can relate

•Gives teenagers thrills, however not appropriate for children because of the graphic scenes

•Want viewers to question our film as it addresses mental and gender issues

 Tagline: you are your own worst enemy

What if you were close but never noticed the dangers around you? What if you were the victim to your own inner demons? What if? 

The story synopsis: A runner goes for a jog to get rid of last night’s hangover. Meanwhile, in another part of the wood a distressed victim is on their last thread of life calling to anyone nearby. “Please, please, please” but how can you help someone who’s too far gone? When people say live your life like it’s your last, applied to Iyra Marshall on a day basis because she doesn’t remember most of their life. In her last moments she must decide the best way to spend it is to take a life, but who’s?

Statement of intent: We want to convey the issues of mental illness and bring the saying “we are our own worst enemies” to real life. We like the idea that throughout life we are fighting our inner demons and our main character clearly does that, but is not successful in winning against the little voice in her head.

Visual realisation: High contrast in many scenes. We want it to have a dark colour but enough that it doesn’t have a bad camera quality. We don’t want to alter the colour too much but rather make it more defined. It’s going to have an intense atmosphere to it so the audience will be able to feel some realism in it.

Rae Griffiths, Niamh Barrett, Courtney Lynch and Hyleana Anthony

Thriller ideas/draft

For the final thriller I will be working with Hyleana, Courtney and Rae. I believe our group will work really well together and will have a fair distribution to the overall output. We have assigned roles, however, we will all have a go at all of the tasks. I've been assigned main editor, Hyleana main camera man(or woman), and Rae & Courtney main actors. Hyleana and I have also been put on sound duty; Courtney and Rae on titles. I think they're leaving me to do the storyboard because I do art, but that doesn't mean i'm great at drawing cartoon people.

One of the shots I wanted to use was a person running through mud and leaving a footprint behind, I really loved the idea(I'm sure I've seen it before, but not sure what in) and wanted to replicate it in my own opening. The image of the runner stamping on a title really appealed to me, as well as the titles moving with the runner and sound of heaving breathing.

We're not quite sure about our story fully but we do have an idea that it's going to be filmed in a wood, where a runner passes by and doesn't realise there is someone in trouble. I contributed a lot to the visuals because I already knew some things I wanted to include and imagined having a victims hands tied up. I visualed a close up of hands with rope and blood dripping off them. Hoping to create a lot of cuts and fades to black as though the victim is hallucinating or is not feel well (physically and mentally). I think we talked about a person from an asylum being involved.

We watched a previous students thriller where they made their title from the word 'drive' into the word 'die'. This inspired us to use an anagram for our own title.

conventions of thrillers

Conventions of a thriller from niamhbarrett

Lighting practise



Here we had a practise with lighting. For this task me, Hyleana, Courtney and Rae used an iphone 6 and torches off our phones to get the pictures shown below. We did this for the easy transportation from phone to blog. 



Backlighting

here we used back lighting where the camera is behind the subject, creating a silhouette. This could be used in our thriller to create mystery, due to the face being hidden.

Artificial light

On this picture we added an effect to create the usually blue-grey hue. For this we added an effect on Courtney's phone. I know this is not lighting but didn't know how to create this effect without the right equipment. 

3 point fill lighting 

Here we used 3 different torches (with the help of ceiling lights as well): Courtney was the key light with the camera, I was behind Hyleana with the backlight and Rae was the fill light. This created a normal looking scene. As you can see the object, or in this case, Hyleana is in focus.



chiaroscuro

This shot is chiaroscuro.  Harsh lighting is used to create contrast on the face. This lighting is common in horrors and dramas. For this photo we made Rae climb under a table to get complete darkness. It casts shadows on the face and makes features look sharper.