Storyboard Edit

Following the experimental work we tried with the HD camera when using focus pulling, we have decided that we would like to include more of this in our thriller opening.
To do this we have had to alter our storyboard slightly.
At 0:27 in our animatic, we have a close up of the Victim's eyes and we then cut to a close up of a radio. This is going to change when we film, as the radio is not going to feature. Instead we will cut to another shot of the attacker, and then back to the Victim in a close up profile view. To start with we will be focused on him but will then focus on the wall behind him before fading out to the six months earlier screen as before.
We feel that this change to our storyboard will make the opening work better as a whole and make the murder more obvious to the viewer.

Filming Day 1 - Wednesday 29th Februrary

The Wednesday coming up will be the first day that we film. We hope to be filming from the start of lunch (1:20) to the end of the college day (4:10). This stretch of time feels like a good way to start the filming, although at this time we are unable to tell how much we will be able to complete so at this point it seems likely that we will be filming for a second day at some point in the future.


Below is consent from our teacher for the Media double to miss the lesson to film:

Lighting Practice

Thriller - Practice Filming

Here are the results of our recent filming practice. In this, we practiced:

• Focus pull
• Close-up Tracking
• General depth of field practice

Pre-Production Planning - Roles

• Director/s - Mark
• Props  -  Megan
• Locations  -  Mark
• Sound Design  -  Chris
• Costume, Hair, Makeup - Robert
• Camera Operator  - Mark/Megan
• Lighting - Robert

Film Planning - Megan, Mark and Chris

Synopsis - Chris

Below is the synopsis for what will happen after our opening:

After the opening, there is a police investigation conducted around the death of the worker and who did it. After part of the investigation has been completed, it is discovered that the victim was an ex-police officer who took part in an undercover investigation where they infiltrated a local gang. The officer left after the gang discovered that a mole was in the gang, but not the identity of the mole. The remainder of the film focuses on the investigation team tracking down the gang, whilst more police officers are being murdered. It ends with a gun fight between officers and the gang, where the gang manages to escape.

Props - Megan

• Table
• 2 chairs
• Pencil & Paper for shot where Victim is writing report
• Phone
• Posters for the walls - 'have you seen this man'

Clothing: 

• 'Officer & Victim' characters will wear smart clothing, shirts & ties, in keeping with those of plain clothes police officers
• 'Attacker' will wear smart-casual clothes, such as jeans

Location - Mark

More location information (RA and Survey) can be found here.
Below is our written permission from Sainsbury's, allowing us to use their store for filming.




Script - Mark, Chris & Megan
Chief Scene:
Victim  -  Hello Officer
Officer  -  Hi Alan, thanks for doing this for us. Are you sure about it considering the risks?
Victim  -  I think so, it's not going to be too dangerous is it?
Officer  -  Well, you'll be going undercover into the local gang to find out where their main operations are, so hopefully not. But as you know we have been trying to track them down for weeks, so they might be suspecting something.
Victim  -  Yeah I suppose, but it sounds simple enough.
Officer - You'll have to be undercover for 6 months, that should give us enough time to get sufficient evidence to arrest them.
Victim - Ok, I'll be needing to write a review then?
Officer - Yeah, preferably. Thanks for this, I know I can trust you Alan.


Timings - Mark.
Shot 1 - 2 Seconds
Shot 2 - 2 Seconds
Shot 3 - 2 Seconds
Shot 4 - 2 Seconds
Shot 5 - 1 Second
Shot 6 - 2 Seconds
Shot 7 - 2 Seconds
Shot 8 - 3 Seconds
Shot 9 - 2 Seconds
Shot 10 - 2 Seconds
Shot 11 - 2 Seconds
Shot 12 - 3 Seconds
Shot 13 - 2-3 Seconds
Shot 14 - 2 Seconds
Shot 15 - 2-3 Seconds
Shot 16 - 2 Seconds
Shot 17 - 3 Seconds
Shot 18 - 2 Seconds
Shot 19 - 2 Seconds
Shot 20 - 2 Seconds
Shot 21 - 4 Seconds
Shot 22 - 3 Seconds
Shot 23 - 4 Seconds
Shot 24 - 3 Seconds
Shot 25 - 3 Seconds
Shot 26 - 3 Seconds
Shot 27 - 3 Seconds
Shot 28 - 3 Seconds
Shot 29 - 3 Seconds
Shot 30 - 2 Seconds
Shot 31 - 2 Seconds
Shot 32 - 3 Seconds

Storyboard - Animatics - Megan, Mark and Chris
Megan did complete all of the storyboards.

This is our Animatic without the voiceover, so how it would be but without titles.




Below is our storyboard with the voiceover.

Summary of Our Initial Storyline

Opening

Attacker/Victim sequence

Cross cutting between a doctor (victim) and an unknown attacker

Cuts show various ECUs of victim and attacker

At the peak of pace increase through the cross cutting, the victim is murdered

Murder is not seen as it cuts away at the point of murder

Ends with a zoom out, long shot of the body.

Synopsis

Office worker is murdered

Leads to an investigation

Victim turns out to be an ex-police officer

He was undercover in the attacker's gang

The gang set out to kill all undercover officers involved with them previously

After gun fight, officer gets shot in the leg

Gang are able to escape

Our Initial Planning

Here is our initial planning from our first discussion.

We did ask for permission to go to a Doctor's surgery in Hurstpierpoint, but unfortunately got declined due to too high confidentiality levels; Mark is now trying to get permission to film at Sainsbury's Haywards Heath