Filming Our Sequence

 

Our filming had to be very scheduled, as we had to visit a lot of different locations and coordinate a lot of different people. We weren't all available for filming at the same time, but we all turned up for some shooting and had a go. On the whole, it went very well as we got all the filming done within two days at several locations.

Production Companies - planning distribution and promotion.

To look in to the kind of production company that would promote our film, I looked at some famous thrillers and who produced them.

1. Inception. 

• Warner Bros. Pictures (presentation)
• Legendary Pictures (in association with)
• Syncopy

2. The Dark Knight

• Warner Bros. Pictures (presentation)
• Legendary Pictures (in association with)
• Syncopy
• DC Comics

3. Pulp Fiction 

• A Band Apart
• Jersey Films
• Miramax Films

4. Goodfellas

• Warner Bros. Pictures

5. Psycho

• Shamley Productions
  

A problem with this research is that GEARproductions (our company) is an independent company, and it is unlikely that we would team up with any of these companies as they are large corporations. However, it is a clear convention here that there is often multiple companies helping the production of a film: a production company, a distributor etc. This could be reflected when we create our own titles and we could credit more than one company.

Personal Response: Our Idea

I absolutely love the idea we came up with as a group. It's entirely realistic and achievable, and we could branch out in whatever way we want, experimenting with shots and movements. I'm glad we chose thriller as a genre as it is something we can all enjoy making. It's also extremely convenient as the locations and the cast that our idea requires isn't overly awkward or demanding, meaning that we can get the filming done the way we want without having to worry about extensive travel or relying on too many people that may back out at any point. 

Our Film Idea (Summary)

After an extensive amount of planning, we finally came up with a idea for our sequence and film.

A man of questionable motives and background rings on the doorball of a young girl's house, who is home alone and running a bath. She lets him in, believing he's a gas meter man, but as she returns upstairs to stop her bath the audience is made aware that he is not as he seems, and that he is deceiving her. He starts to travel upstairs, and as he does, his history is displayed on the screen, hinting at what is about to happen to the girl. He reaches the bathroom door, and the sequence stops.

Group Meetings #3 and #4

In this meeting, we started to think more specifically about what wee were going to film and started to storyboard. We carried this on into our next meeting as well, as this was a longer process and we didn't get very far first time around.


Group Meeting #3:

Group Meeting #4

Group Meeting #2

In our second meeting, we started thinking about locations and casts as we already had a rough idea of what we were doing, and we wanted to think about what we could realistically do before developing our plan any more. We realised for the paedophile idea, we could easily use a parent and siblings could play the part of young girls very well. We also started thinking about locations, but as it was set in a standard house this would be fairly easy as any of ours would do.

Group Meeting #1

In our first group meeting, we started to brainstorm all our ideas regarding the opening sequence on some sugar paper. We decided on doing a thriller, as this was something that interested all of us  and we thought it would be both fun and allow us to be as creative as we wanted. We also started to get a rough idea of the narrative of this piece; a paedophile knocking on the door of a young girl's house, and getting himself invited in. We thought if the audience was aware he was a paedophile, but the girl was not, it would create suspense and an audience pleasure of having extra knowledge. We also started to think about how to do this, the most popular idea being a recurring scene of the paedophile walking up the stairs towards the girls room, and every time he took another step it would flashback to a different girl, at a different point.