Character List

- 1 character
- Female
- Age 16-18
- Blonde hair
- White

Narrative Action List

·         -Panning shot of a hallway showing shopping trollies, Rubbish and graffiti

·         -Panning shot stops on a door

·         -Women runs into frame of the shot

·         -Mid shot of her running in and slamming the door

·         -Close up tracking shot of her pushing the fridge on its side blocking the door

·         -Eagle eye shot of her clearing the desk looking for something

·         -Mid shot from behind a bing of her clearing the desk

·         -Mid Shot of  her going to open up her going to open the cupboard

·         -Shot from inside the cupboard opening the doors moving stuff around looking for something

·         -A shot from under her bed

·         -She goes into frame and reaches for boxes under her bed moving stuff aside

·         -She picks up a box stands up and looks at the front of the box grabs it out of the box and throws it on the ground

·         -Mid shot of her leaning on the wall rolling up her sleeve

·         -Close up of her putting a device on her wrist

·         -Show of the box in focus and her out of focus with the instructions on the back of the box

·         -Moving Close up of her looking at the watch panting heavily

·         -The shot goes into slow motion with her breathing being the prominent sound

·         -A shot at shoe level of the door with a shadow forming underneath it

·         -The heart beat monitor showing the heart beat slowing down

·         -Camera pans up from the wrist to her face

   -Cuts back to the shadow at foot level 

Final Idea

First draft of idea:

Inside the apartment we see a grubby rusted door with dead bolts on it you hear footsteps and heavy panting coming from outside. The door is slammed open and a Women runs in slamming the door behind her. She bolts the door shut and pulls a fridge on its side blocking the bottom of the door. We start to hear knocking in the distant with gunshots in the distance with shouting. She then pulls a couch covered in old canned food and plastic bottles up towards the door propping it on top of the fridge. She then fumbles around the apartment looking for something. She then finds a old baseball bat and stand in front of the door and holds it ready to swing. The door then shakes being knocked and the screen cuts to black.

Final draft of idea:

You see doors on a long hallway it then stops on a door and a Women runs into frame, running into the door that the camera has stopped. There is shouting and screaming coming from the doors. She runs into the room and pulls a fridge in front of the door so it’s leaning on the wall. In the distance you hear banging on the door then you hear the voices get cut to silence. She runs around tearing the room apart looking for something. She then finds a box with instructions she takes out a device and wraps it round her arm. She holds the box looking at the instructions on the back. She leans back against a wall looking at the device on her wrist and the back of the box controlling her breathing. We see under the door a shadow come under the door and a cut back to the heart beat monitor slowing down.

Characters, cast and location

Character List

• 1 character
• 6-7 years old
• White
• Hair colour doesn't matter
• Small boy

Cast List

• Phil's kid

Location

• A room with a big window.

First Production Meetings - not finished

After we had split into groups we had our first production meetings. We discussed all our ideas for our thrillers and what we thought was each of our best ideas. We discussed all the details of our ideas that we might have missed when we presented them to the class so that we could all visualize every idea. We thought about what would be the most visually exciting and cut ideas that we thought would be too boring. We also considered out thriller genre and decided we wanted to build tension in our opening, which helped us choose our idea. I feel that our whole group had similar opinions on the favourite idea, which I felt was the one about a cannibal who serves human meat to guests. Once we had decided what were our best ideas, we narrowed it down to our favourite idea and started storyboarding it.


We are at the point where we have a storyboard for our main idea and a list of sounds and props that we need.

Dividing Into Groups

We were randomly divided into groups of 3 or 4 for our coursework project. Some of us had issues with our groups so there was some moving around between groups, but my group stayed the same. I'm in a group of 3 with two other girls. At first I was worried as I don't know either of them very well, but I feel that it's actually a good thing as we will be more focused on the task and have very different ideas. I have good first impressions of our group as we work really well together and have progressed really quickly in our first production meetings.

Initial Coursework Task Ideas

1. A group of 19-21 year old girls who decide to pull a heist, robbing a painting from an art gallery in London. The film is based on their run from the police and the aftermath of the heist.


The opening sequence is as series of close up shots of the girls preparing for the heist, like hands putting stuff in bags, lighting a cigarette, putting on lipstick, loading guns. The credits flash over the screen in white as this is happening. The sequence would end with a shot of the girls walking out a door in slow motion while the title comes up on the screen.


2. About a school shooter, following the life of the shooter leading up to the shooting itself. We would find out his motives for doing the killing and see his normal life.


The opening for this idea would be the guy packing a gun into his bag and then cut to him cycling to school. There would be large doors into the school which the guy would walk through. You would then only see the doors but hear the sounds inside of screams, gunshots and then finally silence. The shooter would then walk out in slow motion and red and blue lights would flash on his face as he falls to his knees. The title would play as the screen fades to black.


3. About a stripper who murders her private clients and guts them to sell their organs on the black market for extra money. The film would follow her life and why she is doing this.


The opening would be shots of her getting ready, putting on lipstick, getting dressed, doing her hair and makeup. At the end of this she would slip a knife into her garter and walk out onto the stage through a curtain, which would close and we would then hear men cheering.


4. A serial killer who murders people on the tube at night. Follows both the killers life and the police searching for him, eventually the stories cross over when he gets closer to getting to caught.


The opening sequence would be of peoples legs on the tube. The camera would follow people from a tube carriage to outside the station from really low down do it was just filming legs and feet. The camera would eventually focus on one persons legs and follow them out the station before panning out when they're outside so you can see their whole body.