Props and Costumes

In this blog i am going to look at the Props and Costumes of our Thriller, first i am going to look at sam:

In our thriller opening sam is dressed very casually, yet at the same time he gives of a sense of maturity due to the colours, the gray suggests maturity and despite being dressed like a teenager you can see that  he is the "higher up" of the organisation at work.

 Michael is the next person we see in our thriller opening, he is wearing clothes that you would expect a teenager to wear in the middle of winter, this helps build upon his character as it makes sure he doesn't look like he is doing anything suspicious which, if you've seen our thriller, we all know he is.

I am the last person from our group to be seen in the thriller, my role is not important for the thriller opening and i am playing just a small part, so it is not overly important as to how my character is portrayed, despite this i think my outfit definitely helps show what i am, i am some sort of black market dealer, dressed in a thick coat and a hoody to make sure only the right, i guess you would call them the wrong, people notice me. the trainers show i am ready to run in case of emergency and the hood and thick coat keep my identity concealed.











Now i am going to look at the main props used in our opening.

this first prop is a nintendo ads cartridge , this is the mysterious item Michal was handed by my character, this is going to be the macguffin of our thriller this prop also plays the part of the enigma as michal was covering most of it with his hand so it is unknown as to what it is in regards to the world of our thriller.

this is the other main prop from our opening, this is actually Carly's iPhone, but we gave it to sam as he is supposed to be the overseer and head of this whole operation sand it would only be fitting if he had a professional looking phone with many gadgets, we see sam use this phone to communicate with Michal at the end of our opening.

Shot List

Here i am going to place the shot list from our trip into London filming our opening sequence.

First day of filming

 Here are some images from our first day of filming in central london our "primary base of filming" is the area around and the roof of the shopping mall opposite Saint Pauls

Risk Assessment

This is our groups risk assessment sheet showing some of the issues when it comes to our filming, it shows a basic overlay of some of the problems we may encounter and how to overcome them.

Third Production Meeting

At the third meeting we pretty much finalised all of our plans for our first day of filming, we wiil after that see if we need more days incase of mistakes.

Animatic

 This is the animatic from our storyboard, it is basically and animated play back of the images, in a structure that basically shows how our filming will look.all 24 of the frames are in the storyboard.

Storyboard

The storyboard is the basic plan for what we are going to do when filming our thriller opening.
it contains notes on what is happening in each scene and sketches to further show what is going on, we are going to try to follow this through step by step.

Unknown

Unkown 2011

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

Director:

 Jaume Collet-Serra

Writers:

 Oliver Butcher (screenplay), Stephen Cornwell(screenplay)

Stars:

 Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones.

This thriller is unlike the previous thrillers i have looked at as it has not been directed by Hitchcock however despite this it has many similarities with hitchcockian works featuring a maguffin and other key points accosted with Hitchcock.

The maguffin in this film is Martin Harris's breifcase as this is why he goes of in the first place and is then caught in the crash and falls into the coma.this is what builds the rest of the story as he starts to believe he is martin harris which we later learn he is not and it is just a cover as he is actually an assassin.

The film also features an enigma as we are unsure as to who the real Martin Harris is, we are led to believe that it is Liam Neeson but this is confusing as his own wife disowns him, we spend more than half of the film believing that some one has stole Neeson's identity and the "false" martin is trying to kill him off and keep is wife hostage.


It is a real surprise to the audience to find out that no only is there no real Martin Harris but that Neeson, his wife and "the impostor" are all part of an attempt to kill professor Bressler who had developed a genetically modified corn that would ease world hunger, and that they plan to kill him and steal his data on the project for the money.

The trailer also makes us believe that he is the real Dr Harris.


the film also contains some well used suspense, for example when Liam Neeson is in the subway, we get the feeling that he is being followed and so he gradually get faster as does a man behind him, we can see Neeson is worried about this man and due to this so do we the audience begin to feel worried, however it appears as though the man just didn't want to be late for his train as he doesn't appear to be interested in Neeson at all.

2nd production meeting

today monday 8th december we had our second production meeting.

Titles

Titles are a key part of films, they contain all of the basic information such as main actors, producers, directors and so on.

This example is the title sequence from Hitchcock's North By North West and it even has a cameo of the director himself stepping onto a bus in the last panel.

we are going to need something like this in our thriller if we plan to look proffesional.

How To Film A Thriller

This is a short video showing how to film a thriller.
It tells you step by step what is happening so as to help others who want to make a short thriller opening, this clip contains most of the things you could include.
It includes different camera shots mixed with editing to convey the characters feelings to the audience such as fear and confusion.

The deep note suggests suspense whilst the man is walking through the bunker, the shot reverse shot shows a sense of confusion and allows us into the characters head a little more.

First Production Meeting

Today (1-12-2014) we had our first production meeting where we came up with a few ideas for our production as a group.