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.