Thumbnails

These are my thumbnails which is basically a broken down version of the storyboard but with less detailed but i understand it cleaarly.

Storyboard

This is our moodboard which basically tells you our plan of what our opening sequence. - we will redo this

Audience Profiling

Age: 12-25 (12+)
Background: Middle class
Occupation: Student
Gender: Both
Likes: Horror + Thriller Films, School Dramas/Dramas with killers/stalkers
Dislikes: None
Musical Prefrences: High tension music (mainly instrumental)
Heros/Rolemodels: None (Able to see teacher presented in bad light)
Media Habbits: Watching Horror/Thriller Films, TV Dramas. Reading scary books that would fit the horror/thriller genre.

Target audience

We decided from the feedback that we will aim this at ages 12-45. We think that males would be more interested in this film opening rather than females because it is more horror based but we know some females enjoy this type of genre of psychological dramas becasue it usually has a good cliff hanger.
Here is a picture of my brother called Marcus who we think is a prime example of the type of audience who would watch this. He is 18 and loves psychological, horror, action dramas. These are a few of his favourite fils: Saw, Stanger calls, The Butterfly effect and House of wax.

The Actors

Lauren Findley will play the girl that is getting stalked. She is 16, blonde hair, blue eyes and pretty. We decided to get her to play as this part because she fits what we had in mind and also we wanted someone pretty so that we understand why the pscho is stalking her.















Danny Jenno will play the stalker, but we will never see his face in theb opening scene. He has brown hair and brown eyes and is 17. We wanted an adult to play this part because of hand feature looking more mature etc. But we couldn't find anyone suitable therefore that is why were using Danny because he looks old for his age and i think we can get away with him looking like an adult seem as though we won't see his face.

Rating

We decided that our film would be a 12A –
This is the information from the bbfc website that i got:
Suitable for 12 years and over exactly the same criteria are used to classify works at ‘12A’and ‘12’. These categories are awarded where the material is suitable, in general, only for those aged 12 and over. Works classified at these categories may upset children under 12 or contain material which manyparents will find unsuitable
for them. The ‘12A’ category exists onlyfor cinema films. No one youngerthan 12 may see a ‘12A’ film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult, and films classified
‘12A’ are not recommended for a child below 12. An adult may take a younger child if, in their judgement, the film is suitable for that particular child. In such
circumstances, responsibility for allowing a child under 12 to viewlies with the accompanying adult.

Our Pitch

Polaroid Paparazzi

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"Our film is called Polaroid, the reason we have decided to call our film this is because it is a film about a character who takes picture of a girl with a polaroid camera so we felt it was a well fitting title and was short and snappy!"

"The genre of our film is a Psychological Drama/Thriller and the main target audience is teenagers and young adults from ages 12 - 25. We feel both genders would like the film equally and although the main target audience is 12-25 we think the actual target audience could be anything from 12+. In order to gain ideas for our film we have researched into other films of a similar genre (horror/thriller) to try and get ideas the main films being; Donnie Darko, The Butterfly Effect, American Psycho, Seven (Se7en) and a few other films between us. From these films we have thought about characters general behaviours, editing, camera shots, music and almost everything within our film we have used alot of other films to inspire us for ours."

"The main plot for our film is about a male teacher who is stalking and taking pictures of one of the female students at his school. The girl is completely unware that she is being followed or that the teacher has any intrest in him at all and she isn't actually seen with the teacher untill nearer the end of the clip. We have decided that opening titles we would like to use a simulatneous camera flash and camera noise and then put some credits on the screen saying something along the lines of 'produced by ,edited by e.t.c' and then after about 4 bits of text the main footage will begin without any transitions just straight cuts. We will have clips of him cutting out his photos and taking them into the dark room and then we will have clips of him getting dressed and putting his tie on so we immediately know he is a teacher at the school however we have decided we don't want to show his face so we are going to keep him hidden by using a lot of close ups or over the shoulder shots of our stalker."

Feedback

From pitching out idea to the class these are the possible problems from the feedback they gave us-Hiding identity of psycho, Needs more of an enigma, Realism, Tough story line might be hard to make it look good, Getting an adult to play as the teacher, Can’t make it obvious who the stalker is, Sound effects, If it doesn’t creep me out then might lose interest.
The positive comments we received were- likes psycho stalker idea, seems well planned, good idea, liked the Polaroid idea, good original ideas, good research, suspense- the audience will want to find out who the stalker is, like the idea of flash and sound effects .
The advice and suggestions we received were - Need more than two suspects, show a scene of paranoia with girl (spinning ), get a good stalker to act as the teacher, plan the story line better, Use adults to act because it makes it more realistic, Use and older person for the teacher, experiment with the edit to see what effects you can use, and try and use different and unique sound effects in your film, Use unusual shots when editing, To keep the sense of it being psychological don’t fall into usual film conventions.

Analysis of opening sequence to Donnie Darko

Mise en scene:
The name of the producer and director appear
first against a black background, followed by
a dull and dark opening scene which i can connate
is the morning time becuase of the sound of birds and the sun rising.There is very little sound other then a build up of slow music to suit the slow pace of the surroundings.

We can see a very natural setting with trees and fields.
Camera constantly in one anlge of paning across the scene, firstly creating an establishing shot of the surroundings and slowly moving toward one part of teh scene where the main character lays on the road.
music chimes in quite suddenly at the site of the main character, this could signify our surprise as the character appears to have fallen off of his bike and is simply attempting to get up. we see the main character from the back to begin with as the camera pans around to give an angle of his face and the scene sticking to the 360 degree rule. the camera then gives you another establishing shot of the surroundings of the countryside. I can connote from the scene that it signifies the characters feelings of seclusion and that he is very far away from society, literally and metaphorically.
The use of a dark setting,lack of music of use of slow pace creates the theme of a psychological thriller based around one person.

Moodboard

This is my moodboard on phsycological dramas because we want to base our film on this genre type.
Donnie Darko: A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.

Fight Club: A lonely, isolated thirty-something young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find their release from the prison of reality through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.

Sweeney Todd: After hard years in exile for a crime he didn't commit, Benjamin Barker, now Sweeney Todd, returns to London to find his wife dead and his daughter in the hands of the evil Judge Turpin. In his anger, Sweeney goes on a murderous rampage on all London. With the help of Mrs. Lovett, he opens a barber shop in which he lures his victims with a charming smile before casually ending their lives with a flick of his razor across their necks. But not one man nor ten thousand men killed can satisfy Sweeney's lust for vengeance on those who've caused his years of pain.