Question 2

By James and Georgina

Test Shots For Opening Credits

These are Shots of the pages in the Opening credits in order they are in the film.
We added the pictures on the pages to add to the theme and to thicken the plot.
we decided to do our opening credits in a prop format, we got our inspiration from the film "Seven" which is also based around a scrapbook. We decided that we would have our opening credits in a prop format opposed to digital text on the screen as we thought it was more relevant to the thriller genre.

To Do List

Here is a to do list of things we need to do between us labelled who needs to do them and when by.

Shooting Cancelled

During the Christmas holidays we had agreed to shoot our opening sequence on the 21/12/11 and the 31/12/11 but sadly i was not available on either dates due to work as well as georgina that had work on these dates. It wasn't down to bad planning as the shifts were both given to us last minute and we couldn't decline as the Christmas period is the most busy in retail. We tried to change the dates to shoot but both of us were just overrun with different problems so we came to a decision that we would shoot after the christmas period.

We were aware that as we missed our chance in the holidays we also missed our slot to use the equipment but we are going to come to an agreement with sir over getting us another slot.

If we were paying for renting the equipment then we worked out how much it would cost

Camera- £300
Lighting- £150
Tripod- £15

In total that comes to £465 and thats a lot of money out of a Film Producers Budget, but thats a mistake we wont make again.

Infancide Target Audience

Our film is targeted at both genders as it will have not only action and violence but also an emotional plot that the main detective has to overcome. Our films targeted at Men and women aged from 18 and over. if it was leaning over to eaither sex it would be male as thriller films just have every aspect that a man looks for in a film such as action, tension and psychological plots.

Problems we came up against whilst filming parity

When filming our parity we came up against 3 problems.

1- the first problem we came up against was how busy the goals mens toilets were, this was a problem as georgina had to keep leaving the toilets everytime a man came by. Due to this we had to take quite a few breaks from filming so the overall filming time was longer

2- The second Problem we had was the tripod and how it cannot pan around the room you can only do still shots with it and in the parity we were remaking this was no good, we had to film the whole sequemce handheld.

3- Our third problem was when filming we held the camera portrait angle for some shots, but for the most of them we held it landscape. When we got back to edit our work some of the shots were rotated on their side due to how we had held the camera and this was a problem because we didnt know how to rotate them back, we watched a few tutorials on youtube and then understand how to do it.

Asset list

Infantcide Detective Costume Research

I have been looking at what we should make our detective wear, I was looking at the detectives in shutter island and the trench coats that they wear, along with the scruffy shirt and tie showing that its a hard job. this picture is a perfect example of what i would like our detective to look like.

Our detective has had a hard life so he needs to look very run down, we are also going to have him to waking up to the phone ringing and you will see the state of his room showing empty fast food boxes and empty bottles of alcohol to show he is an alcoholic and not a stereotypical well presented and professional detective.

We have a black suit available to wear underneath the black trench coat. i have a black trench coat that i just have in my wardrobe and georginas dad has a black suit.

For the Little boy that the detective sees in the mirror we are going to have him wearing pyjamas as this signifies innocence and then the fact that they will be bloodstained will tell the audience that this child was murdered brutally. we might even have the child holding a teddy bear to add more innocence.

Georginas Little brother has pyjamas so we have them available along with the teddy bear. 

Talking about our storyboard/Animatic

Remake of 'Parity' (Other student's work)

This is the video that we did shot by shot remake for;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5BIXi-cVLM&feature=related

Shot List

The First Shots we are going to film are the waking up after the Opening titles as they need to be in the daylight as they shot needs to be well lit and that is the time of day in the shot, we will be filming shots 14 too 24 in this time-space.

We will film shots 25 too 29 after the waking up sequence as we we will need daylight as it is right after the waking up sequence. you wont really be able to tell the time of day due to there not being any windows (Interview room) but even so we are going to film them at this time to simplify things.

When it starts to get darker we will shoot 1 too 13 as it is going to be a dark in the opening credits to create mystery as you cant see who is in the shot.