Test Shooting

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Production Company Logo and Film Title

Existing Production Company Logos

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment:
Company Name: Thrilling Productions
Directors Name:Nikhara Korpal and Charlotte Myatt

Location: Alleyway
Potential Hazard: Hypothermia
Risk Assessment: Cast and Crew
Control Measures: Everyone should bring layers to wear e.g. jackets and hot water bottles.


Location: Alleyway
Potential Hazard: Safety of strangers/Rough Area
Risk Assessment: Cast and Crew
Control Measures: Make sure everyone stays together and be alert at all times.


Location: Charlotte’s House (Living Room)
Potential Hazard: Lack of Space
Risk Assessment: Cast and Crew
Control Measures: Be careful not to trip over tripod, make sure space where filming is clear.


Location: Car Park/Abandoned Location
Potential Hazard: Getting run over by vehicles,Weird people around
Risk Assessment: Cast and Crew
Control Measures: Stop,Look and Listen to surrondings


Location: Birmingham Library
Potential Hazard: Falling off the building, height is quite high up
Risk Assessment: Cast and Crew
Control Measures: Not going to near to the edge of the building.


Location: Back Garden Shed
Potential Hazard: Tripping over in the darkness,Lack of Space
Risk Assessment: Cast and Crew
Control Measures: Be aware of objects around and be safe


Location: Roads nearby
Potential Hazard: Getting run over by vehicles
Risk Assessment: Cast and Crew
Control Measures: Stop,Look and Listen to surroundings

Character Profiles

Shot List

Shot List

Script

INT.MOLLY'S LIVING ROOM.DAY 

Chloe and Molly are on the sofa eating popcorn whilst watching a horror film.

From the scene there is diegetic sounds from the horror film and from characters eating popcorn.

Chloe has received a few missed calls from her mother, her phone will vibrate loudly on the table.

Chloe then picks up the mobile phone.

Chloe: What do you want Mum?

Mum: Where are you? Chloe: I am at Molly’s house, I told you this three days ago. You must of been not listening again.

Mum: Come home by 11 it's getting dark and really late.

Chloe:Okay will do, bye

Mum: I love you, See you at 11.

EXT.ALLEYWAY.NIGHT

Chloe leaves Molly's house.

Chloe is listening to music which is blasting loudly and late at night she is walking back home alone.

Villain grabs her from behind and covers his hand on Chloe's mouth.

Chloe screams.

Chloe: Ouch! Get off me!

INT.MOLLY'S LIVING ROOM.NIGHT

Molly is texting Chloe to see if she got home safely.

Her iPhone will make loud typing sounds as she texts her.

INT.CHLOE'S LIVING ROOM.NIGHT

Chloe's mum is worried and still hasn't heard from Chloe she has tried ringing her and texting her a lot.

Phone rings, Molly picks up the phone.

Mum: I don't know where Chloe is, I have tried calling her and texting her so many times but she isn't replying, I was just wondering if she is still at your house still. It’s 12pm and I am getting really worried that she is not back.

Molly: She isn’t at my house she left an hour ago I have tried to call her and message her to see if she reached home but she hasn't been on her phone since she left my house. I wonder where she is..

EXT.SHED/ABANDONED PLACE.NIGHT

The villain takes Chloe’s phone from her pocket and rips the tape off her mouth.

Chloe: Who are you and what do you want?

Villian: Be quiet and do as I say or I'll shoot you.

He then records a video of Chloe struggling because she's tied up.

Then sends it to Molly.

Molly:Omg no

Gets upset then sends it to Chloe's mum.

Chloe's Mum then views the video on her phone.

Molly: I have found the location of where she is on my phone; I am going to find her.

Chloe mum: No, don't go alone, I don't want you to leave my sight.

Molly: No, I am going to look for her.

Molly breathes heavily.

Molly: Stop, I’ve got your Ransom fee here

Villain snatches off her and laughs

Molly: Put the gun down

Villain keeps gun next to Chloe's head

Molly Raises Gun and shoots.

Production Company Name - Thrilling Productions

Potential Names for our production

Key Scenes from our movie trailer

In our trailer we will have four or five key scenes.

• Chloe and Molly are hanging out together, this will take place at Molly's house. They are watching a horror film on the sofa eating popcorn, when Chloe gets a phone call from her mum, telling her to come home because it's late. Chloe has had a few missed calls from her mum, telling her to be home by 11 and is starting to get annoyed at her because she doesn't want to leave yet. 

• Then Chloe leaves Molly's house and she is happily walking home listening to music. She thinks about whether to go down the alleyway or not and checks the time on her phone. She notices a mysterious looking car at the beginning with its headlights on. She thinks nothing of it but when she turns to look at it again, it's gone. She looks worried as she walks down the alleyway but she is already running late so she decides to carry on because it's quicker. There is a sudden shadow behind her and as she is about to turn round, a hand covers her mouth. Her vision goes blurry and then fades to black as she is knocked out. The kidnapper then drags her away. 

• Cuts to a scene where Molly texts her to see if she got home okay and her mum is still trying to ring her. They start to get worried now as she's still not home. The kidnapper notices her phone light up in her pocket and it shows that she has loads of missed calls. He takes the phone off her and hangs up on the incoming call from her mum. He then records a video of Chloe struggling because she's tied up. He rips the tape from Chloe's mouth and tells her to say something demanding a ransom fee and warning them not to get the police involved. He forwards this video to Molly, who shows Chloe's mum.

• She has been missing for three weeks now and her friends and family are worried. The kidnapper has tied Chloe up and as her eyes slowly open, she notices a gun being pointed at her. Molly has come to rescue her friend and she kicks the door down as the kidnapper is about to shot Chloe. The kidnapper stands next to Chloe, still pointing the gun at her head. He demands Molly hands over the ransom fee in order to free her friend. 

• Then Molly aims her gun towards the villain but it is shown as in-between the two characters. As she shoots the gun, the screen goes black so the audience is left on a cliffhanger not knowing who's been shot...

Interim Assessment

Treatment for Movie Trailer Production

Production Company Name:
Thrilling Productions
Production Team Members:
Charlotte Myatt and Nikhara Korpal
Title of Production: 


Genre: 
Action Thriler
Synopsis: 
Beginning: At the beginning, everything is normal. A girl is walking home from her friend's house. Middle: She walks down an alleyway, gets kidnapped and is missing for 3 weeks. There are posters around the area that let everyone know she is missing and to encourage people to come forward with any information.
End: In the end, her friend has to hand over a ransom fee to get her back. The friend shoots her gun towards the villain, but the scene cuts to a black screen. The audience is left on a cliffhanger as they don't know who has been shot. The title of the film and the institutional information then swipes up onto the black screen. 
Detailed Narrative:
Todorov's Theory: At the beginning of the film, everything is normal. Molly and Chloe are hanging out at Molly's house and having a good time. Chloe leaves her friend's house and starts walking home. It is dark now, and she decides to go down an alleyway to get home because it's quicker. This is the equilibrium of the story as everything is as it should be and the audience are introduced to the main character's and setting.
As Chloe is walking home, someone suddenly puts their hand over her mouth and kidnaps her. This is the disruption as it disrupts the happiness and normality.
Molly realises that she is missing when she messages her to ask if she got home safely. She then tries to ring her mobile but there is no answer. She then rings Chloe's house phone and her mum answers. Chloe is still not home yet and now her parents are worried too.  This is the realisation as everyone starts to realise that there is a problem and there is chaos. They keep phoning the Chloe's mobile, but there is still no answer. She has been missing for 3 weeks now, and there are missing posters all around the local area asking for people to come forward if they have any information. Molly manages to get ahold of the girl on her mobile, only it's not her. A deep voice asks for a ransom fee in order to get Chloe back safely. Molly receives a video from Chloe's kidnapper, demanding a ransom fee so she goes to an old abandoned car park to hand over the money and get Chloe back. This is the restored order because Molly has gone about fixing the problem, in the hope that everything will go back to normal.
Chloe is being held at gun point so Molly shoots her gun towards the kidnapper. The screen then fades to black so the audience don't know who has been shot...This is the equilibrium again because everything is restored back to normal and the characters can go back to being happy again but it's also left on a cliffhanger. 
Levi Strauss' Theory: The main binary opposite evident in this film is good vs evil. The friend and the girl's mum are good and the kidnapper is evil.
Intended Target Audience:
The intended target audience of this action thriller film are 15-24 year olds as this is the age group that like to watch a lot of films and enjoy doing so with friends and family. The film trailer will appeal to both males and females in this age category as they both enjoy action thriller films. However, this action thriller film will appeal to females more because the two main characters within the text are female and they are represented as normal, everyday teenagers just like the audience. A large percentage of the audience for action thriller films fall into the E category on the JICNAR scale because they are unemployed or the D category if they have a part-time job. The secondary target audience for this action thriller film will be everyone else who watches it, such as people with apprenticeships or are employed. Some of the secondary target audience will fall into A and B on the JICNAR scale as they may have high paying jobs. The majority of these will be parents who are persuaded to go and see the action thriller with their son or daughter.
Key Characters:

• The victim of the kidnapping (Chloe) is a female who will be threatened by the villain, the audience will emphasise with her and she is the weak and vulnerable character.

• The girl will be quite young between the age of 11 and 18. Through the costume she will be wearing casual clothing with jeans which is a typical stereotype for teenagers. 

• The main character is just a normal teenager on her way back home, listening to music, loudly and on her mobile phone chatting to her mates. This character will be in the wrong place at the wrong time, going from normal scenario to being captured by a villain.

• The hero is the girl's friend (Molly) who tries to rescue her from the villain. 

• A constant battle between the hero and villain as the friend gets closer and closer to finding her.

• The friend will be the character which the audience want to win the battle and are supporting him through the film, and the audience know how he is feeling where as the villain is the disliked character in the film. 

• The villain will be the main character who commits the crime and he creates the narrative disruption. He will be extremely clever in how he goes about the kidnapping. 

• The villains identity won't be revealed to the audience as he will be wearing a mask to cover his face and be wearing black, dark and dull clothing.

• Holding a gun but is dressed relatively smartly to show his authority and power. He will have a foreign accent to sound more strange  and weird. 

• Low key lighting, shadows and quick cuts will be used to represent this character as evil. 

Mise en Scene:I want to create a dull type of atmosphere, almost eerie and strange which is crucial in a thriller to make the audience feel on the edge of there seat and involved with the film.Through props we will use guns,posters and a mask.Guns are used commonly in action thriller films therefore we will use some as a prop to create drama and violence.Another prop we will use are posters to indicate that the main character has gone missing.For the villain we are going to use a mask so his identity is not revealed this is a common convention used in action thrillers it will also create a suspense of mystery and atmosphere.

Locations:
Through locations there are four key locations that we may consider.As a production team we have chosen many different locations which are local to where we live and in places which will look good visually for our film.To be professional as a production team we will have to seek permission for some of these locations so we are able to film in these locations.For most of our film trailer we will have to film during the night which could lead to potential issues with the lighting and cinematography.Locations that we have considered are the Birmingham Library which will be used at the beginning for a establishing shot.Other mysterious and dark locations will be used such as alleyways,park and a car park.We will also use a house for the beginning of the film where the main character is with her friend.

Applying Audience Theory

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The Ultimate Guide to Making Movie Trailers

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Representation theory

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Audience Feedback

                                           https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TZH597X

I asked my target audience to complete a questionnaire by clicking on the URL linked on my blog. The results of my questionnaire show that the majority of my target audience are aged between 16 and 18 and are mostly female. The audience that I collected responses from are all students and their favourite film genre is action/adventure which is closely followed by the thriller genre. The mostly take part in typical student activities in their free time such as listening to music, watching films, studying and sports. They are most likely to purchase the film on DVD and all agree that my film fits into the action thriller genre. They mainly like the storyline/plot of the film and how dramatic it is but have suggested that I could improve it by adding more detail about what happens to the girl who goes missing and by using mysterious locations. My target audience would like to know when the film will be out, the actors involved, if it will be released on any new technologies such as Netflix and how much it will be when it comes out on DVD/bluray, these are all things that I need to consider and include in my final movie trailer. They would all definitely or maybe go and see the film, nobody said that they wouldn't.

Final Video Pitch

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Production Company Narrative Outline Mindmap

Detailed Idea For My Production

Genre:
The genre of my film will be action thriller. It branches off the horror genre, but is more specific in terms of audience and the codes and conventions.
Codes and Conventions:
The codes and conventions of an action thriller are:

• low key lighting or set in a dark and mysterious environment - this sets the scene and makes the film a bit scarier for the audience as they don't know what is going to happen. The dark colours have eerie connotations, as though something could be hiding in the dark, so the enigma code is built because the audience is left to guess what will happen next. 
• fast paced editing - this builds the tension for the audience and makes them feel a bit wary of some of the characters such as the villain or the evil character. 
• close-up shots on the character's faces - this makes the audience feel empathy towards the character that is in trouble as they can see how they're feeling and this makes the audience feel like they are in the scene with the characters. 
• fast paced music - this again builds the tension and makes it more dramatic. It also suggests that something big is going to happen or about to happen, like a big reveal or something bad happening to one of the characters. 
• flashbacks to make the story line more dramatic, building the tension as the characters recall what has happened before they got into the situation that they are in now.
• the main character's love one is in danger so the audience again feel sorry for them and route for the hero to save them
• violence and use of guns to allude to action and thriller and to also emphasise the danger of the loved one 
• special effects to attract the audience to the film 
• realistic - using real characters and settings so the audience can relate to it 

Name:
The name of my action thriller film will be Gone as this suggests that someone has gone missing and could potentially be in danger.
Detailed narrative outline:
My action thriller film will be similar to 'TAKEN' but I will consider the 'difference in repetition' so the film will have similar conventions to the others but with a different story line. A group of teenage girls are camping in a forest and having a good time. They are just talking among themselves and everything is normal (equilibrium). They then start to mess around, making noises and trying to scare one another. When they hear a mysterious noise from somewhere deeper within the forest, they start to get scared (disruption). One of the girls wonders off to get signal in order to phone her mum. When the girls realise that she has been gone for a long time. they think that she is the one making the creepy noises and so they laugh it off. They carry on doing what they were doing, when they suddenly hear a loud scream (realisation). They all grab their touches and set out in search of her. They can't seem to find her anywhere, but its getting a lot darker now, so they all agree to go back to camp and look for her in the morning if she hasn't returned by then. When they get back to their camp, their campfire had been put out and BEWARE has been written in stones on the floor. There is still so sight of the friend that went missing, but her hoodie has been slung over the tent. It has blood all over it. They all decide the sleep in one tent together just in case. When they get up in the morning, the missing friend is still nowhere to be seen, so they get dressed and set out in search of her again (restored order). The missing girl turns up at the camp and they are all pleased to see her and even more concerned about what had happened to her. It turns out that she had spent the night in an old abandoned shed after she couldn't find her way back to the camp. That still doesn't explain the blood stain, but the friend admits she covered it in fake blood, but she wasn't he one who put it on the tent. The girls forget all about it and go home to return to their normal lives (equilibrium). While listening to the radio on the way back, they hear that there had been an escaped murderer on the loose in the forest where they were camping, but the police hunted him down earlier that morning. The binary opposites in this film are male vs female and hero vs villain. The binary opposites in this film are the heroes and the friend is the 'princess'. The main characters in the film will be 4 teenage girls who go camping and are just wearing their normal everyday clothes. The props will be camping equipment. They will all be aged from 13-19 so it is relatable for the audience. I will use the park and house as shooting locations.

Verbal Feedback Post

After reviewing my coursework, Mr Farr said I needed to;

• Analyse another British film for my homework research task, as I did 2 posters, DVD covers, trailers and magazines for one British film.
• Also, to add more detail to my analysis of existing products and link in theories such as Propp's character types, binary oppositions and the codes. 
• When describing my target audience, I need to also identify who my secondary audience is and then say that a large percentage of the target audience will be students but it will also appeal to workers and those doing apprenticeships and then consider where they are placed on the JICNAR scale. 
• Also, in terms of my target audience, I need to say why my film will appeal to a certain genre or age group.
• In my narrative ideas, I need to focus more on the whole film, with the start, middle and end, and linking that to the disequilibrium and disruption etc rather than just focusing on the trailer for the film. 

Genre Research - Rick Altman

Genre Mindmap

Genre Theory Research - Steve Neale

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Genre Research - Key Media Concepts

Narrative Theorists' Research

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Plot Pitch

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3 Initial Ideas

Horror: ALONE 

A teenage girl is home alone watching a film, everything is as normal. She is in the kitchen getting a bowl of popcorn, when the phone rings, but nobody answers when she picks it up. She goes back to watching the film when the doorbell sounds. When nobody is at the door either, she starts to get suspicious and so she rings her friend to come around. She runs around the house to ensure that all the windows and doors are closed and locked, except she forgets just one door; the garage…A mysterious man enters her house through the garage door, without her knowing. The girls friend arrives at the door, but as she goes to answer it, a deep voice shouts “don’t answer that door”. She turns around to see that the mysterious man is standing at the top of the stairs, pointing a gun towards her. She comes away from the door and turns around to go upstairs after the man. She slowly creeps upstairs to try and find him and to see what he wants from her. She hears the floorboards creaking and then a door slowly swings open creepily. She runs into that room and the door suddenly slams shut behind her but when she goes to get out, it’s locked. The man quickly puts his hand over the girls mouth and drags her down the stairs and into the garage. He locks the garage door and then the trailer ends. At the end of the film, her family has to pay a ransom to free their daughter and then they get her back, report the case to the police, who then track him down. The film then ends as the police catch the criminal, the family watch it on the news and then everything returns to normal.

Crime: ON THE RUN...AGAIN
Two 20 year old men have been on the run from the police for years following a drug deal that went wrong and resulted in a man being shot. Everything is as normal, they are still on the run and the story continues. They only had a limited amount of money when they ran away, so the police know that they are still in the country. The men have been staying in old abandoned houses and buildings for years but haven’t left a single trace of where they have been, or if they have been staying with anyone along the way. The police get a new lead on where the men might be or have been – a witness comes forward and says she believes she saw the men at a local train station. The police of course follow up the lead and check out the CCTV footage from that train station and other train stations around there. They confirm that it is the two men they are after and they follow the CCTV around the station to see where they might have been heading, whether they were getting on a train or if they were just passing through. It turns out the men are only passing through the station building, but the police track them to another station near by and one of the men ends up getting caught by police on the scene. At the end of the film, one of the criminals is locked up, while the police are still looking for the other one and the story ends there.

Horror: GONE

A group of teenage girls are camping in a forest and are messing around and making noises to try and scare one another while they're telling scary stories. When they hear a mysterious noise form somewhere deeper within the forest, they get a little bit scared and creeped out. When they realise one of their friends is missing from the campfire after saying she was going to find signal, the girls think that she is messing around and playing practical jokes. They go back to the campfire and just forget about it, until they hear a loud scream. They all grab torches and the whole group goes out towards the scream and to look for their friend who had been missing for a while now. They don't find her, but it's starting to get a lot darker and so they all agree to go back to the camp and to look for her in the morning if she's not back yet. When they get back to the camp, their fire has been put out and BEWARE has been written in sticks on the ground. There is no site of their friend who went missing, so they have an early night and set out to look for her in the morning. When they wake up, the missing girl's jacket is placed on the ground and looks as though it has been ripped and has blood on it, so they look around the camp for more clues as to where they could be. When there is still no site for her, they pack everything up and set out to find her. At the end of the film, it turns out that the girl spent the night in an old abandoned shed because she couldn't find her way back to the camp but she lost her phone along the way. The girls find her the next morning and ask her what happened, she tells them and everything returns to normal as they set off home. Until they get home and hear that there was an old, escaped murdered on the loose in the forest where they had slept, and it turns out the police caught him in the early hours of the morning, before he could do anything dangerous to the girls.

They would all be rated 15 by the BBFC because of violent/scary scenes which have the potential to be upsetting to anyone below that age.

Todorov's Theory:
 Tzvetan Todorov's narrative theory states that most stories or plots follow the same structure. There are 5 steps:

• Equilibrium - At the start, everything is normal and as it should be.
• Disruption - Something will happen that will disrupt the happiness and normality.
• Realisation - Everyone starts to realise the problem and there is chaos 
• Restored Order - The characters go about fixing the problem and restoring everything back to normal. 
• Equilibrium (again) - Everything is restored and everyone can go back to being happy again.

Strauss' Binary Opposites:
Levi Strauss' binary opposition theory states that every film has binary opposites (the characters). Binary opposites are very frequently used in films especially in horror genres. Good and evil is the most common binary opposition shown throughout the media on different platforms. 

Propp's Character Theory

Vladimir Propp's character theory states that every narrative has 8 different character types which are:

• The Hero: Leads the narrative in some way. Usually searching for something or on some form of quest to succeed. 
• The Villain: Struggles against the hero. Shown to be morally bad - drives the audience away from them, making them support the hero.
• The Donor: Gives the hero something special to help with the quest. Doesn't always have to be physical. 
• The Helper: The helper supports the hero - similar to the donor. Usually appears at critical moments and gives support and guidance like a sidekick. 
• The Princess: May take two forms - object/reward - deliberately done by hero. Could be seen as little in the film or may be an important character.
• The Princess' Father: Gives the task to the hero. Key figure for hero to persuade as father is protective of his daughter. Could also be in competition with the hero. (Propp said it was hard to distinguish.)
• The Dispatcher: The character who sends the hero on a mission - may be a family member and can also be combined with another role.
• The False Hero: Appears to act heroically throughout the film and can be mistaken for the actual hero.