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.



se7en textual analysis

Well someone has hacked my visme and changed my well presented presentation to a weird picture, thanks!!! Had to redo it.

Zombieland titles evaluation

Preliminary Evaluation

Behind the scenes preliminary

filming and editing preliminary task

I've not done a post in a while so I'll update you on what's been going on;

The team and I have filmed the whole preliminary task (we thinks) and are now onto our editing - which is mostly cutting and sticking together.

We had a small problem occur on our last day of filming. I went to take the camera back to the cupboard and found out the next day that I had pulled the lock out, so that the cupboard stayed unlock to the whole school..whoops! I thought my form tutor was joking at first because I didn't understand how that could happen. However the bright side to the story was that a Y13 was able to fix it...before I got in the room to see what'd happened (does that sound suspicious to anyone else?)

I promised to add a behind the scenes footage as well as the task.

that's all for now,

Niamh

Sorry saved this as a draft and forgot to post it

Preliminary Task Video

Storyboard pics

Storyboard from niamhbarrett

storyboard video

Preliminary task

This task requires us to film a short continuity video that shows someone opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character; which then exchange a few lines of dialogue.

During this task we will be using and considering match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

• Match on action just mean an editing techniques used to make the video flow e.g. if you're filming the video on two separate days, the actor would have to have the same clothes and hair style.
• Shot/reverse shot refers to the camera angles used to film a conversation. The view usually captures one character while they are talking and changes to other when they're showing an expression or they're giving their input in the conversation.
• The 180-degree rule just means that the character should always have the same left/right relationship (-basically there's a line down the middle that shouldn't be crossed).

For this task I'm working with Hyleana Anthony and Courtney Lynch. My role in this task is to film and be involved with the editing. Courtney is going to be our main star and leading lady (also apart in the editing) and Hyleana is the second character and my assistant editor.

practise camera shots

So here's a task we had to do to get used to the different types of camera shots. The first shot I took was an establishing shot. The effect of this shot is to set the scene. This shot is taken of tupton hall's courtyard ft the tree memorial. To create this shot I used a panorama. (and sorry there's no story behind it, unless you want to be imitative and make one up, e.g. a day in the life of a Tupton Hall student)

The next shot is a close up. This focuses on the sign and not a lot of background. This emphasises that the school specialises in sport.

This shot is a reverse shot of two people having a conversation. This shows that the conversation is light and the atmosphere is bubbly(happy).

Here is an extreme close up of my eye. As you can see by the bag and growing dark circle, it shows how tired school makes me (even though I love school!!).

Then the picture below is a tilt shot used to show speed. The background makes the sign seem important because the object is aligned in the middle while the background is dark and not dominant.

High shot/bird's eye this shows the view of someone stood up and behind the person sat. This shot may be used to make the girl seem vulnerable. You can also tell that the girl has a really bad parting going on that day.

The last shot is a long shot. The person is completely dominated by their surroundings (if you can see the person at all).

My first blogging experience

Hi, as you can tell by my blog name, I'm Niamh and this is my very first blog...and no it's not pronounced Niamh it's more like neve. One of the funniest names I've been called has got to be 'nom' which at one point got turn into my old nickname of nemo - which I kind of loved because I'm a big Disney/Pixar fan.

Another one of my subjects is art in which I stay at school until 5 - 6 o'clock (true dedication right there)-not to brag or anything but I got an A*. I have a twin and no we're not identical, he's a boy, but we do get on really well.

Why media? For starters watching media allows me to eat popcorn. I watch a lot of TV and films at home and would love to be apart of the filming industry. I've made a home video once before but would like a proper insight. I'm usually the one who doesn't likes to have their picture taken, I'm more intrigued in the editing side of media. In the past I've made a holiday vlog with my brother and then edited it on movie maker (which is probably rubbish compared to the software that you guys use) but it made me feel a sense of accomplishment after finishing it.

I'm not really into soppy romances, I'm more into action and marvel (Thor's probably my favourite). I like films with unique twists and non cliche stories.

That's it I guess

Niamh