Pre-production planning

Costume

Within our opening we will be using different types of costume for different characters and
scenes. This is so that the audience can begin to come up with ideas about what type of
person the character is and what they are doing. We plan to buy a hospital gown to show the
audience that our protagonist is injured and is being attended to in a hospital. This suggests
to the audience that he has been injured and needs to be cared for.

We also plan to have casual clothes to show that the protagonist was going
about his regular life when he was ambushed.
We will also have hoodies,bandannas and hats for a flashback of the protagonists memory to

show he could have been involved with some bad people.
We will use a vendetta mask. This is to make the character anonymous.

Composition
When planning our opening we took into consideration our location and if we could get
permissions to film where we planned. Therefore we decided to use a lot of close ups and
extreme close ups. This would also make the audience look at our protagonist and what
state he is in.
When doing flashbacks, we also planned to use point of views to make the flashbacks more
realistic and be able to show information about the story line.
We will also use a focus pull to a weapon to make it seem important.
We placed our protagonist in the middle of the shot in running scenes to show the audience who the main character is without them having any prior knowledge.

Continuity Editing
180 degree rule, SRS, and match on action will be used as much as possible. When making
the storyboard we discussed when and how we would implement them into our opening.




Sound planning
We plan to use sounds from garage band and creating our own folly sounds. This is so that we can get the perfect sound for each shot that we want to have. We will have sounds of a heartbeat
 monitor, a car and fire just to name a few.
We will use a rode mic to record ambient sound an an external mic for dialogue. However if needed, we could do voice overs with the rode mic as it has good recording quality.


Experiments And Rehearsals

When recording we will try different techniques to see what works in our opinion. We will use the storyboard however, if we think something else would be better or we need to change something we would.

Permissions

For filming we will need the permission to film on private property. For proof of permission
we will upload an image of an email,letter or text threads or, a telephone call with the
company whose permission we need to be able to film there. Two group members also called up the Queen Victoria who said there was a possibility we could film there.
Although the Queen Victoria did not allow us to film due to connection with the Burswood Hospital. However, if we are unable to use a hospital, we will change our storyboard a little to be a woodland area to simulate being kidnapped. This would more than likely be owned by the council however if it is owned privately we will have proof of them allowing us to film.

Audience Feedback

When we plan we will ask for ways to improve from people with experience of thrillers and
media studies as a subject. This includes teachers, classmates and current and previous film
or media studies students.

Media

Thriller opening Pre-production

Due - 29/01/16

Tony Bryant

Target audience

Would be target at an older more mature audience as the storyline is quite complex.

Our story is in a non-chronological order so it is quite hard to grasp what is going on as some points.

Setting

Travel distance will be to the Queen Victoria for the scenes involving the hospital.

Access to our location we have called up and they have agreed to try and help us out but it is not 100% certain yet.

The risk of the places we are filming; the hospital is about the safest place we could film but the driving scene could be dangerous for obvious reasons.  

Mood and atmosphere we want the setting to create; the hospital creates a confused, enigma atmosphere as the audience wonders why he is in there.

One setting that is key to the plot of our short thriller opening is a single patient room in a hospital where our protagonist is in serious pain in his bed.

If it doesn’t work out with getting hold of the Queen Victoria hospital then we have connections through another group member to get into a different hospital further away. It’s called the Burswood hospital. We have also been able to get in contact with

Props

We will need:

• Cars
• Guns
• Smart (Suit) and casual clothes
• Hospital bed
• Heart monitoring screen (Real/Fake)
• Hospital patient clothing

I have a prop gun which I have spray painted all black

We all know people that are able to use and their cars in our thriller opening. We have some prop guns but if we do not have enough we are able to borrow them from the college prop storage cupboard and if not there we are able to buy them.

We will need to make warning signs for the guns as they are going to be painted almost fully black making it hard to tell if it's a real gun or not.

Jake has family connections to help us with getting access to this hospital equipment and if we are not able to get access then we will create our own bed for it as all we need it a relatively close shot of their face while on the bed.

Getting hold of the equipment might be a lot hard to do so we may have to make it ourselves.   

We have asked for the hospital to supply us with the clothes for the scene of Callum waking from a comma. For the other scenes we will have our actors dress with causal clothes but have the antagonist wear darker clothes as this will passively create a darker mood while they are on screen.

Hair and make-up

For the protagonist hair it would be messed up as they have been in quite a physical event that has put them in hospital. There would be little blood as it would have been cleared up by the hospital staff but there maybe scars on their face from whatever happened.

For the idea of a scar on Callum’s face:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFyot9NL_h0

We will not be able to carry on with this idea thought if we are not able to get the make-up and equipment for it in time for the shoot.

Lighting and colour

When setting up the lighting we will want to create an even amount of light for most scenes but then in scenes where we are trying to create enigma we will use a semi lit or backlit scene.

Body position and facial expression

During our car chase scene we will have a close up on the facial expression that the protagonist will be giving as he is being shot at.

With the help of our teacher we enquired about the possibility of using a hospital room at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead with a few props (including a bed, heartbeat monitor, a drip) and costume (a hospital gown).