Thursday 11 February 2010

Location shots


This is the outside of the House we will be using. This is the outside of the girls house and we have chosen the front of the house so that the bedrooms can clearly be seen into from the outside and we would lke to include this in one of our shots.







This is where the stalker places his pictures of the girl he is madly in love with. 
We have chosen this room because it has enough space to fit in a desk and chair for us to film the stalker cutting out photos and putting them on the wall, it also has a clean white wall which we will be using to put the photos on and with the wall being white it brings more focus to the photos because the walls have no real colour.







This is the cellar where the pictures will be developed and made.We have choosen this room to be the dark room because it is very dark and mysterious already and we thought that this would be perfect for a place were the stalker goes to develop his photos. (This room also really fits in with the genre of a pyschological drama/thriller









We have two possible rooms for the girls bedroom because we have no set layout for her bedroom as we are trying not to focus on her as a character and trying to just make her room look like any other bedroom. (All of the things in the photos can either be take out or kept as props).

Polariod Draft and Mock Up







Thursday 4 February 2010

Film questions

1. The action: identify the event your idea is based around; what actually happens (discovery of a body, an illicit meeting, a witness seeing a crime being committed, a criminal act taking place, a telephone call, a chase, a short journey etc)?
A teacher that becomes obsessed with a student. The teacher has been taking pictures of her. Then shrine of them all in his cellar at home.

2. The theme(s): what should it make the audience think about or feel, what ‘issues’ will it raise (revenge, sexuality, voyeurism, stalking, obsession, greed etc)?
The film makes you think how easily how somebody can come across as a normal person with a normal job but could be a psychopath. This explains the psychological drama.

3. The narrative: how is it structured - classic narrative pattern or break with convention, real time or different time zones, flashbacks/forwards, dreams etc. Will there be dialogue? What about diegetic/ non-diegetic sound?
There will be diegetic music to help the story line and create an atmosphere. The change of music/tone will show a change in story line. There will be no dialog in the opening of the film. This is so that it doesn’t look unprofessional. This is because we don’t know any really good actors.

4. The character(s): who are they, identify their roles, what are their characteristics, including gender, appearance etc?
Our stalker will be an attractive,tall,’hairy’ man who receives many admirerers making his psychological issues very unsuspecting. Our student who is being stalked by the teacher is a pretty, blonde haired blue eye girl who the teacher finds attractive.

5. The setting and choice of location: where is it set?
The setting of our film is in a dark cellar type room belonging to the stalker. The house that he lives in is set in the secluded country side. The teacher’s bedroom is constantly dark and filled with photographs of the girl he’s obsessed with. The dark and ‘bricked’ cellar provides a great setting for creating an atmosphere of drama/thriller.

6. The mise-en-scene: identify colours, lighting, dress codes, the overall visual look
The house our film is set is very dark, old fashioned with antique furniture and plain colour walls. There will be very little lighting in the teachers room only glimpses of natural light from the sun rising.

7. The camera work: the style you are aiming for
In the opening scene we plan to use fast, quick paced camera shots of the teacher getting ready for work. every few shots we’ll have a camera flash and the camera noise to show the constant use of the Polaroid camera by the teacher. Our camera angles will mostly consist of of mid shots that only show parts of the teachers face, hands, clothes, feet to restrict how much the character know about the characters appearance.

8. The editing: edited as a continuous sequence, use of cross cutting, use of montage, or combination?

We are in a way creating a montage of the character getting ready fro work with quick clips of him dressing.