Finding a Location

On Saturday Niamh and Hyleana went to Wingerworth looking for places to film our thriller opening and get together some practise shots so we can get a better idea about how our shots will work out. Whilst they was in Wingerworth, I was in Pilsley also doing the same, I went to Locko Plantation (which is a local woods near me) looking at our story board and thinking about where we could do our shots if we was to film in Pilsley. This Video is from the Wingerworth location, and I will be putting some of the pictures I got from the Pilsley location up shortly! We will then discuss both of the locations and decide on a final place to film our thriller.

Risk Assessment for Deaden Hikes

Here is our Risk Assessment for Deaden Hikes. We had to think about the potential hazards, then say how we can prevent anything from happening, to ensure we will be safe when filming.

Role of a screen writer

Screen Play
A screenplay or a script is the written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or television program. These screen plays can be original work or adaptations from existing pieces of writing, for example, a book being made into a film. In screenplays the movement, actions, expressions, and dialogues of the characters are narrated in great detail.

Screenwriters
Screenwriters are held responsible for developing the scripts, describing the stories, and explaining the moods of the characters. A screen writers job is extremely important because without them, there would be no script and then no films would be developed. The scripts come from the screenwriters ideas and imaginations. One thing that makes a good screen writer is speed, from research, I have found out that the most common screenplays are written one page per each minute filmed, meaning an average film will have about 90-110 minutes worth of screenplay, therefore speed is key, or it will take agers.

Textual Analysis on Disability - Hollyoaks

A Textual Analysis Me and Shannon did about how disability is represented in Hollyoaks, we covered Sound, Mise En Scene, Editing and Camera Angles/Shots.

National Ad Campaign

Hey Guys!

So last month just before Christmas I travelled down to London to shoot the brand new National citizen service Ad campaign to advertise it for this year!

It was such an amazing experience as I’d never been involved with anything like this before, it was cool to see all the expensive equipment used and how much time and effort actually goes into filming a serious campaign. I was in London for 3 days, the first day I travelled down after school and then arrived at Black Island Studios where I was reunited with some of my friends from NCS Leaders week. That evening we just had a brief about what we were going to be doing the next two days. Day 1 of filming was so tiring as we left the hotel at 7am and returned at 9:30pm! Filming was exhausting but so fun, as we got to meet some famous people such as Suli Breaks, Ali A and Emily Canham, who are all ambassadors for NCS. Day 2 we left at 7am again, but was only at Black Island studios until about 5:30pm where we then all departed to our different train stations and left to go home. On day 2 we carried on filming for the Ad, but then we had our photos took that are now on the side of the big red buses in London and all around the UK, and all over social media! Also, we had many interviews about our experience on NCS.

We filmed a 30 second TV Ad, 1 Minute Cinema Ad, and a 25 second YouTube ad, which I will put below so you can check them out, as I feature in all of them:)

Youtube:

TV:

 Cinema:

Se7en Textual Analysis

One Page Pitch Video

Here is our One Page Pitch, sorry its a bit long! But this basically just explains our ideas for the 2 minute opening to our thriller film. We also added into the clip a few extra things to make it a bit more fun, but also to practice our editing:)

Editing One Page Pitch

Me, Niamh and Hyleana are currently editing our one page pitch, because we filmed from 2 different angles to create the shot/reverse shot. The video of our one page pitch will be uploaded shortly:)

Who Our Audience Is

Audience by Rae Griffiths

Initial Ideas

Here are the initial ideas for my thriller:
I have decided to change groups from who I did my preliminary task with because although me, Ben and Lydia worked well together, Lydia has now left and gone to college, so I have decided to join up with Niamh, Courtney and Hyleana because were good friends and I feel we will work even better together :)

The sub-genre in our thriller is horror, therefore we was thinking of having a story line about a psychiatric patient who has escaped from a mental asylum. We know that this is a sensitive topic, but we want to try and do it justice and really show what it’s like to be in their shoes, and we want to be respectful to the people with mental illnesses.

Our initial ideas include a character running through some woods, with the camera focus then going onto floor where the titles will be, then the runner stepping on the title for it to disappear. As well as this, we also thought the titles could be moving with the runner and sound of heaving breathing.

Although we have thought of some ideas, as shown on the mind map we created below, were not 100% fully sure on the full story. However, we do have sort of a main idea that it is going to be filmed in a wood in the day, because then we will be able to edit the lighting and things after to make it gloomier or however we finally decide to have it. Also, as I have said before, there will be a runner, who then realises that someone is in trouble and may need help. We also thought of having a close up shot of hands, with a rope tied around them with blood dripping off them. We want to create a lot of different shots and cuts from the runner to the tied hands.