Opening Proposal

 To make the ideas for our opening really come to life, we need to plan in great detail including as many features relating to the Thriller genre as possible. Mystery, suspense, differences in characters etc. A strong plan will make our filming day successful and will ensure our final piece will make perfect sense by including all of the necessary shots to make our story line reachable. I strongly believe in our thriller opening plan and can see great potential into making it look both realistic and well rehearsed. Although we have thought about things such as the storyline, costumes the characters should wear, and the mise-en-scene to keep our piece believable, I feel we may have one key element which will exceedingly hard to control. Lighting, because we are using the natural world with no artificial light we will need to think of many things to ensure it looks as well as it can giving no reasons to be marked down upon. A main concern of lighting difficulties is that each clip we have filmed needs to be analysed. It would look extremely unprofessional if any of the following occurred:

Shadows of the filming crew appearing on a recorded piece

No filming directly into the path of the sun

 Light beams hitting the camera distorting the clip

 Light beams appearing all over the camera off reflections: windows, puddle, shops... 

I propose the filming to be finished after one day of absence from school. To support this proposal, we, as a team need to ensure that all preparation is finished and ready for use before we arrive at our filming destination. This included credits, all props, costumes, filming equipment etc.

 To ensure that each shot is filmed to the best of its ability, a tripod should be altered accordingly. This will give us the correct height and shot type keeping a still resulting shoot. This will stop clips from being shaky and will capture the intensity of the characters expressions and actions keeping their features clear. By attaching the camera to the top of the tripod, the handle on the equipment allows easy movement for doing shots such as panning, high and low angle shots to ensure that each shot looks interesting from the audiences view and abides the rule of thirds. It would be easy when filming to become tired by the end of the day due to the demanding concentration and amount of clips which we will be taking. However, the team will go into the filming day with the attitude of filming to the best of our ability. We will be making no compromises on our filming day and each clip will be viewed on the camera after shooting to make sure that it looks as effective as we discussed in class. We will look through for any mistakes or continuity errors and add another or reshoot a clip to keep success.

 To certify that our story line is within our reach, we made a step-by-step list and story board planning each shot we will take and writing all of the scenes we need to include. We noted in chronological order to ensure that on our filming day it was easier to know where we needed to be and at what time we needed to do a certain amount of things by. We have decided on 3 main locations for our filming all within 3 miles of each other. Our first location will be Henry’s house. This is because of his shooting hobbies and his ability to get a Deer’s head in his abattoir to give us a freaky close up shot. As well as this, his houses consists of antlers hanging on the wall and hooks to hang up dead animals, we thought this would give our opening the mysterious and uncomfortable vibe which we were aiming for. Our second location was around the village of Kirkby Underwood (Henry’s village.) We decided upon this as it was outside of our everyday town (Bourne) and is full of pathways connecting up to each other, which would look effective in a scene where Henry is following Kingston and I due to his obsession with me. Our last location is the village next to Kirkby Underwood because there is a county lane which is shown to be a public footpath but is always empty, giving a ghost like feeling to the filming. As well as the path, this village also contained an empty building which Henry’s family own. It has a big pad lock on the front of the sliding doors and we thought this would be a good ending to the thriller by slamming the door shut.

 We hope to each dress on the day according to the weather for filming and sticking to the costume list we decided upon together. This demonstrates the idea of keeping filming fast paced as when we are acting, we are likely to become cold quickly. Usually past years have to stay wearing sensible footwear and coats due to December usually snowing however we are relying on the ground having no ice upon it due to the weather forecast saying it will be dry on filming day.