PLANNING: STORYBOARD

Today, we worked as a group to create our final story board so that we can plan out our scenes for filming. We can now easily establish our plot to ensure that it incorporates codes and conventions of film openings, such as a the use of a protagonist at the beginning of shots and the use of opening credits. Using the storyboard ensure that our story makes sense and will flow well as we have lots of very short shots in our opening and its important to make sure the plot can be followed. We can see which scenes need to be filmed and which actors are necessary for this. We have been able to start making our call sheets as another way to manage ourselves and out time. 

PLANNING: GROUP DISCUSSION

RESEARCH: AUDIENCE

RESEARCH: SOCIAL GROUPS

Today I have created a Pinterest account as I believe it is a good way of sharing and keeping track of information for my film. I can create various boards so that I can structure topics well and it has worked well for focusing on my audience. Today I have used it as a way of showing the social groups that are within my film opening. I have been considering how the social groups in my film relate to my audience and how it will be interesting and engaging for my audience. Please click the image to be taken to my Pinterest board:

RESEARCH: DISTRIBUTION OF THE HUNGER GAMES

I have researched the distribution of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. It has been a valuable way of finding out more about distribution techniques and has shown me ways in which I could distribute my own film opening. This research will help me to answer the third evaluation question on distribution.

SHOT LIST

Today I have created my shot list with my group so that we can plan each shot that is in our film. We will make use of this as it helps with organisation. It will help us to identify what techniques we use in our film and how we could improve it. 

PLANNING: TREATMENT

Film Title: The Unhinging 

It's 2015. A teenage girl, aged 16, has been kidnapped. The character INDIA has been taken and held within the basement of a very old and remote house. The kidnapper, JACK, is a 25 year old male who lives in a secluded remote area of rural Britain. The house is situated in the centre of a woodland area away from amenities to demonstrate the way this male is set apart from society. India is an ordinary every day teenager who does not come from a particularly wealthy background. The kidnapper has taken India because he is mentally ill and has become obsessed with her. The kidnapper is a killer with previous victims all of a similar age to India. He lives in a house without a partner away from civilisation and he wishes to have company. India is tied in the basement however she is fed and given water; she is looked after and is wanted alive. 

India awakes and experiences a flashback where she remembers being kidnapped whilst outside a fitness centre/gym. Jack comes into the basement and also experiences a flashback where upon he smashes a mirror. He cuts India with a shard of glass from the mirror and he leaves. India uses this to cut the rope restricting her hands. She is seen creeping through the hallway whilst the kidnapper is out of earshot.  She grabs a phone left on a table and then sprints out the front door promptly leaving it open behind her. The kidnapper appears and so the audience can see that a chase is about to begin. India escapes on 10th day of being held by this man.

India is seen running through woodland and she appears to have been able to out run the kidnapper. Whilst running through the forrest the audience can see fastbacks showing how India was held in the basement. She calls 999 and the voice of an operator is heard. India hears a noise and the audience can see a hand with a gun after India turns around. The main title of the film appears whilst a beeping sound from the phone is heard. The operator tries to talk to India; the phone has disconnected and the operators reaction is shown.