Production Roles - Miss Miller

In order to create film, you'll need a film crew which are a group of people hired by a production company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. A film crew is divided into different departments, each of which specialises in a specific aspect of the production. The purpose of having different production roles in film making is because if one was to do all the work it will be time consuming and when the one person doing all the work makes a mistake, the blame will all be at them which will be unfair as they were working by themselves. Furthermore, it is easier to separate jobs within the production crew as everyone can do what their best at which will be helpful towards the creation of the film to make it as successful as it can be. The main roles in a film crew are:

Directors - Their role has a creative control over the project which controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualises the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the perfection of that vision.

Producers - A producer has an overall control on every aspect of a film's production. They bring together and approve the whole production team. Their key responsibility is to create an environment where the talents of the cast and crew can succeed. 

Director Of Photography - This is the person who is in technical charge of how a film is lit and shot.

MES coordinators - This person or group of people are in charge of the Mise en scene within the film e.g costumes, iconography and hair & makeup. 

Editors - Simply cuts the film together 

Music Producers - Are in charge of the sounds and music included in the film to make it better

Screenplay Writer - A screenplay writer is a writer who practises the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games are based. 

Actors - are the characters included within the film, otherwise there would be nothing to film 

As this is a group production, we decided to allocate each other multiple roles that suited our strength as this will be benefit our final product. The reason why we split the roles between each others is because it allowed us to each have a job that we believed we can do and also feel comfortable doing making the work environment calm as everyone knows what they're doing. 

The roles I'm responsible for is the screenplay writing, director and producer. We allocated these jobs for me as the narrative for our thriller was mine so it made sense that I was the screenplay writer. Also because the narrative was my idea the directing and producing of the scene was in my hands as I was the one who understood the narrative more, so it was easier for me to visualise what we wanted our thriller to look like. As I'm experienced with drama as well, I know a lot about directing and creating a piece of drama as I have acted in one before, so being the director was easy for me to do. 

The responsibilities Rishika took on, was being the director of photography and editor. We decided to give Rishika the role of the being the director of photography as in our preliminary task, she was the one who was behind the camera shooting the clips needed. Due to her the success of the photography she shot in this task and how comfortable she was using the camera, it was only best if we gave her the job to control the camera movements in our thriller. Also, giving Rishika the role of being the editor was simply because of the way she edited her Opening credits which we decided to follow at the end. Like using the camera, she is comfortable editing on the software Final Cut X pro which will  be beneficial to our thriller making it run as smoothly as possible. 

Finally, the roles we allocated Ella was being the music producer and MES coordinator. We chose to make Ella in charge of the Mise En Scene as she knew where to get all the needed iconography such as blood capsules from and also as Ella is good with doing make up, it would benefit us as she will do the makeup and decided what the girls are wearing for our thriller. Also we gave her the role of producing the sounds for our thriller because Ella knows how evaluate and listen carefully to a sounds and reflect back onto them. So with this speciality she can figure out the sounds online for what we will need our thriller to make it more engaging to watch and successful. 


I believe that the roles we gave each other suited us best and helped make our thriller the best it can be. I would not change anything about the jobs we individually had as we done them so well and it was easier to work around with as everyone had an idea in their category on what they were doing. An example of the great outcomes of the jobs we had each is that I was the director. Since none of us were actors in our thriller, I had to tell the 3 actors who kindly agreed to participate what the narrative was and guided them on what to do in the frames they were in. This was very helpful for the actors as they hadn't of been planning with us so it would of came to a surprise on what they were doing but with the help of my directing they understood what to do and what the narrative was about making their acting more conventional to our thriller. 

Also what Ella did well within her role of being the MES coordinator, she helped the actors in our thriller have an understanding of what they will need to wear in the scenes so that'll be appropriate to our thriller. Also, when filming Ella directed and ordered the actors on what body language and facial expressions they should express in order to match our expectations for our characters. When editing our thriller, Ella was in charge of the sounds so she went online and searched the most conventional sounds we could include within our thriller. I helped her with this but if I suggested something that I thought would be perfect, I would inform her to make the final decision. 

Lastly, Rishikas role was very much well suited as again she was brilliant and comfortable with editing the preliminary task but when me and Ella were not in the lesson where we had to edit, Rishika took upon her role and edited the whole 2 minutes of our thriller to an acceptable standard. Even though we were not there to give opinions or anything, She done well with creating a small rough cut for us to work around with and improve when we were all in the lesson together which was very helpful. Also her directing with the camera was also good as she was the only one who was in control with the camera, unless it was a point of view shot. When filming Rishika knew exactly what kind of shots she needed to use with the guide from the group storyboard but also, when it was the shots from the characters perspective she helped guide them on how they should hold the camera and record.

 Overall, I believe the production roles we each had were suitable for our individual abilities, and helped us create a successful thriller opening scene. I honestly think that if we were to do anything differently we wouldn't have worked as well as we did with the roles given when filming, so again I am proud of the success we have made. 

Opening Scene Narration - Miss Miller

Our narrative starts with a couple of mid shots which will be linked, of a flashback of a little boy on a swing at the park and his there alone, the credits will be shown on top of the image. This will be filtered in black and white, combined with a bright lighting state to show that this a flashback. But in the first few frames, there would be no one on the swing but the swing moving by itself. With a dramatic entrance because the audience were used to not seeing anyone on the swing, the little boy appears positioned in the middle and is rocking on the swing, the audience will hear eerie music within the background. Behind this whole flashback there will be a non diegetic sound of a sort of humming eerie noise creating enigma in the audience. included with this sound, there will be a non-diegetic sound of children laughing and playing, also with a dominant off screen dialogue of a child saying " come out and play with me" which gradually gets louder and louder.

Suddenly, there will be a jump cut zooming out from the antagonists forehead as he is shown laying down in the middle of the road, with his eyes closed. The lighting will differ from the bright lighting shown in the flashback and it'll change to be a very low-key dark lighting as the setting is at night. This will be the lighting for the rest of the thriller. The boy will be wearing dark, ragged clothing and the iconography which is a mask will be besides him on the road. Behind this frame will be an eerie non-diegetic soundtrack to create a mysterious atmosphere whilst we see the antagonist. A straight cut will take place to show a two shot of two girls arriving at a bus stop drunk. The sounds the audience will hear will be the normal, parallel noises of the street e.g vehicles driving past, distant voices which will emphasise the location that they're at. Also they'll be diegetic sound as the dialogue the girls will be discussing how they're getting home that evening at the bus stop. After finally deciding on walking home instead of waiting for the bus, they are followed by a panning shot showing them walking down the pavement until they suddenly stop as Josie's Phone rings. After a straight cut will happen when the girls are shot through a mid shot at the top of the road bickering as Shona wants to carry on walking but Josie is on the phone. A over shoulder shot from Josie's shoulder will happen after to show Shona's frustration through her facial expressions and body language and then further down the antagonists body which will be hardly focused on. Behind this will be an eerie suspense non-diegetic soundtrack that will gradually become louder when shona decides to leave her friend as she spots the antagonist laying on the floor. From a point of view shot, Shona will begin to start walking towards the boys body and the editing will be slowed down as she gets closer to create tension and suspense. The sound that would be heard in this frame would be an eerie, heart beat symbolic sound track which will occur representing her fate. After this a shallow focus will focus of Josie who is talking on the phone but behind her Shona is walking towards the antagonist, the iconography used in this will be the phone and mask which is laying besides the antagonist still. Instantly, a jump cut will go to show an extreme close up of the antagonist waking up will be edited very fast and also a non-diegetic alerting sound will be heard to emphasise his wake. Next an off screen sound will be heard of a distressed scream which sounds to be a girl whilst Josie is on the phone which will be shot in a mid shot. After a reaction shot, an over shoulder shot will show that she has turned around to find her laying on the floor dead. Quickly hanging up her phone, the panning shot will follow her running towards her friend who's on the floor dead panicking as she goes to check on her. At this point the only sounds we will hear is the dialogue from Josie as she is horrified about what she has just seen. Meanwhile, as she is crouching down next to her friend, Shona rises slightly and coughs out blood which will be shot as a close up so the audience can see the blood being shown. An eerie sound will be heard whist this happens and then Josie decides to get up and run away from the scene as she is traumatised from the horror she has just witnessed. 

Subsequently a panning shot will show Josie entering the Forest entrance which will quickly switch to a hand held shot of Josie's face showing her facial expressions. After another hand held shot will show Josie's feet running through the forest. Behind this the sound that would be hear would be of an eerie, parallel soundtrack of her heavily breathing whilst running to show realism. As she is running the editing will be fast until she trips and falls onto her knees in the forest, as this happens the eerie music that was heard before will quieten down as she looks down on the floor. Then from a low- angle this shot will be slowly edited as she slowly looks up to see the antagonist who's further away wearing a mask in her way. Afterwards a straight cut will show a point of view show from the antagonists perspective through his mask as he walks forward and stares at the girl on the floor. This will be edited slowly and an alerting,screechy non-diegetic sound will occur, occupied with the girl screaming as she looks up to see that its the antagonist who is in her way. To conclude the whole thriller, a fade will be seen as the screen fades to black to show that it is the end of the opening thriller scene. 

Filming Schedule - Miss Georgiou

 A filming schedule is a project plan of each day's shootings for a film product. The filming schedule provides a plan of what is going to happen and be including in each shot of a film production. This informs me and my group members the brief subjects and equipment that are needed in each shot, so that we know what we have to do. If we were not to have a film schedule, we would not have a brief idea of what we would have to include within our thriller production, also it will be chaotic as we will be rushing and making up all the shots on the spot.

What is included within our film schedule: shot, time and date, location , shot type and duration, costume/hair/makeup, iconography, personnel, equipment and content action. 





Firstly, we did not follow the filming schedule in the beginning as we had planned on starting to film on the 3rd of December but then we realised that as its winter and it gets dark earlier, we wouldn't make it to the park to film the flashback. Also as the Wednesday was a school day, it would be hard for us film quick as possible because our school and my little brother's, who is playing the boy in the flashback finish at different times, so we would have to wait for my brother to come out of school as he finishes later. Furthermore as it is the winter period, it gets darker quicker so if we were to film the flashback straight after school we wouldn't of got the best lighting we would of liked for the scene. 

However like the film schedule states that we would continue to film on Saturday 6h December, we followed this and filmed the flashback which was the park followed by the bus stop scenes of the two girls walking down. As we wanted a gloomy effect in the lighting of the park scene, we waited for the sky to turn slightly darker so that it would reach to our expectations. However even though our plan was to finish filming the whole thriller on this date, we couldn't do this due to the fact that some people couldn't stay longer e.g ella had work to go to and also our thriller required a dark setting meaning it was already late. 

So we all decided to film the forest scene on the following Tuesday and finish off the whole thriller, the reason for the delay this time was because our camera ran out of charge. Therefore we allowed the camera to charge all day and then film the rest of the thriller where the protagonist is seen running away from the antagonist in the forest.


To conclude, the filming schedule was helpful as it made our communication skills within our group stronger but also we did face minor difficulties whilst filming causing us to not follow it as we planned to do. However with these faults it allowed us to make quick new adaptions to our plan of filming. 

Group Storyboard - Miss Miller

A storyboard is a sequence of drawings, typically with directions and dialogue, which represents the shots planned for a film or a television programme. Storyboards are important because they're the best way to show your vision of the the production you are creating. The purpose of a Group storyboard is that it allows all members to evaluate and include all the ideas they've come up with within their individual to add onto the group storyboard. We got into our lesson and looked at the different types of storyboards each one of us made, and discussed the advantages and disadvantages within them and which best ideas we would collect to add onto our final storyboard. Group storyboards allows to show the final outcome of the narrative and what were going to include in each frame to make our sequence successful. If we were not to have a storyboard it would be time consuming when actually filming it as we wouldn't know what to do and include when filming nor editing which will be chaotic. Storyboards guide us on what to do and include within our own sequence for example lighting, sound and iconography i.e.

Frames 1 - 4 

The reason why as a group we created a storyboard is so we can discuss all of our individual ideas and evaluate what to include from each others work which we thought will be conventional to our thriller sequence. In Ella's storyboard we found that she started her narrative with the flashback of the boy who was at the park swinging on the swing. We all decided to follow this as we thought it was a brilliant way to begin our sequence as it shows a little of the antagonists past before actually seeing him making the audience feel curious and tensed. The use of starting with a flashback was also inspired from the thriller Halloween  (1978), because the opening scene was of a flashback of the antagonist Michael who is seen as a young little boy and he kills his own sister with a knife. We thought that starting with a flashback is very intriguing and conventional to a thriller as it shows an insight of a characters past which makes the audience start to understand the character more and create whether a closer or distant relationship with the boy. Even though we took the actual start of the narrative from Ella's storyboard, we decided that the camera shot for the frames would be all in mid shot which was an idea from my very own individual storyboard. The reason we decided to use the mid shot instead of a close up that Ella suggested in her storyboard of the swing is so that the audience can be introduced to the scenery of where the action is placed, which is a park. Also the mid shot shows the important background that needs to be seen in the shot and the character who is the little boy, which makes the audience focus on him even more as he will be positioned in the middle of the frame. 

Frames 5 - 8 

Within these specific frames, the majority of the ideas made were all gathered together from each of our individual storyboards as they were similar. An example of the similarities that we all had within our storyboards is in frame 5, we all had a two shot and diegetic sound. This was because the shot shown introduced the two protagonists within our thriller who are girls and only focused on them because there is dialogue which gives the audience more information about them and what they're doing. We believed this was conventional to a thriller as the two shot focused on our important characters in the frame which grabs the audiences attention and imply that they're the most important people right now in the scene. Furthermore as these frames are about the two girls in our thriller, the camera shot we used whilst they're walking was panning to make the audience automatically follow their movements of where they're going. In frame 8, we see the two girls nearly approach where the antagonist is located which creates suspense within the audience as they know that he is a dangerous to be around with. To accompany with this shot of the girls near the antagonist, we added a non-diegetic, eerie sound which was taken from Rishika's storyboard to help emphasise that the girls a close to the mysterious boy who is suggested to be dangerous as this is a thriller. The use of this sound will inform to the audience that something bad is going to happen that will effect the two girls as the mysterious music comes on when they're near the antagonist. This is conventional to a thriller, as eerie sounds are often used when the protagonist or victims are near the antagonist or vice versa because it helps imply that someone is going to be in danger and also it makes the audience feel on edge as they do not know what to expect.   

Frames 9 - 12 

The frames 9 - 12 are about all the characters in the thriller acknowledging each others presence. Firstly in frame 9, the shot will be from the perspective of the protagonist which will be a point of view shot of her walking towards the antagonist body which is laying on the road. The editing style included was slow editing which was taken from my individual storyboard. The use of the slow editing was decided to be used is because the slowness of her walking creates enigma and tension within the audience as they do not know what is going to happen next as they're forced to follow the guidance of where the protagonist is going as its a POV shot. This is conventional to a thriller as it puts the audience in the characters shoes which makes them relate and build a close relationship and also feel paranoid due to the lack of power of controlling what they're seeing on the screen. Moreover, in frame 11 it is shot in an extreme close up which was chosen by all members of the group to have in our individual storyboard and it was of the antagonist opening his eyes rapidly. The sound that is included in this shot was taken from my storyboard and it was of an alerting, non-diegetic sound that we thought would shock and make the viewers jump as it happens unexpectedly. The use of this sound is conventional to a thriller as is suggests to the audience and characters that something is going to happen as it has a huge impact when heard which makes the audience feel tensed and suspicious on whats going to happen next. 

Frames 13 - 16

In the frames 13 - 16, the action taking place is of when the girl discovers that her friend is dead and the antagonist has disappeared. Also in these frames there is a change of location from the street to the forest. The inspiration of including a forest was from the film ' The cabin in the woods', this was because forests are conventional to the thriller genre as they are isolated places where people are un likely to get help from easily if anything bad was to happen. When the protagonist runs into the forest it'll be shot from a hand-held shot, this will give the frame a jerky, unsteady feel within the screen and the audience. The use of this handheld shot will give the audience the victims perspective and portray her fear and urgency of escaping from the antagonist. This will build a closer relationship between the victim and audience as they are put in her position as she is running away, meaning that they will share the same goal of escaping and being safe. The sound that will occupy this forest scene will be parallel as the audience would expect to hear her breathing heavily as she is running. This is conventional to the thriller genre as it gives a sense of normality meaning that the audience can relate to the protagonist. Also another sound will be of an eerie soundtrack that would represent the chase scene happening between the antagonist and the girl, the use of this sound will exaggerate that this is a chase scene as the tempo will be up beat suggesting this is chaotic. 

Frame 17 & 18 

These two frames were very vital as they show the two characters clashing with each other, meaning that the chase is now over. In frame 17 the camera shot would be of a low angle when the girl trips over and slowly looks up to see that its the antagonist who's in her way. This was taken from my own storyboard, we all decided to use this as it showed the difference between the two characters and who was more dominant in the situation. Even though the antagonist is not that close to the girl, the fact that she's on the floor and his standing establishes that she is vulnerable and he is the one with power as he is stable. This is conventional to a thriller as it shows the different character representations within the film, so that the audience know who is who and helps build different kinds of relationships with them. Lastly in the frame 18, the shot would be a point of view shot from the antagonist perspective through his mask when he is looking down at the girl. What inspired us to use this is that in the film Halloween (1978), the whole scene was shot from the antagonists perspective Michael through his mask also, this was very interesting to watch as when we were audiences watching this it made us think that we were the antagonist and also made us feel tensed as we had no control of the movements happening on the screen. In our thriller, we will use this shot to convey the antagonist point of view as he looks down on the girl, this shows that he is more dominant in the scene because not only is he more powerful than the girl on the floor, he is in power of the audiences sight as they're forced to follow his actions. The sound that happens in this frame will be a very alerting sound when the audience first sees the point of view from the antagonist, the use of this sound will help convey that the power is in the wrong hands. Also behind this shot there will be eerie music to create enigma within the scene as the audience do not know what to expect after, furthermore this sound will help make the shot more alive and interesting to watch. Finally the editing that we decided to include which was from my individual storyboard was a fade, this often happens at the end of a scene or film. We decided to include a fade at the end of our sequence so that it helps establish to the audience that it is the end of our opening. Also the fade is conventional to the thriller genre as this will make the audience feel tensed and curious as they just finished watching the scene so they'll want to find out what happens next as our thriller opening does end on a cliffhanger. 



I believe that our group storyboard is very clear and manageable as we all understand all the elements that we have included to each frame that we think will help make our thriller more conventional. It also portrays a good understanding of our thriller narrative and supports our goal of creating suspense, enigma, shock and tension within the film and audience. The way we incorporated each others ideas was very well done as the majority our individual storyboards had the same ideas anyway, so it was easy to agree on things when we discussed to each other why we thought our idea was the best to place in the final storyboard. There were a few compromises within our planning, for example in Rishika's storyboard she wanted to include her idea which was at the end of the scene where the antagonist hides behind a tree and looks at the girl who is in the forest. However we all thought that even though the shot showed that the antagonist was near his victim who is alone, it didn't really show their different character representations. So we decided to follow my ending which was of a low angle of the girl who's tripped over and of her slowly looking up to see the antagonist in her way. We all believed this was more effective as it showed the different statuses between the two characters and that the antagonist was more powerful. Overall I believe that we as a group have created a successful storyboard that helps convey our thriller narrative clearly and also guides us when we film so it won't be chaotic and rushed. 

Risk Assessment - Miss Georgiou

My Risk Assessment 

A risk assessment is simply an examination of what, in your work could cause harm to people or the workers. The purpose of a risk assessment is to iron out all the potential hazards and risks that could happen and what you can do to prevent it in order to work in a healthy and safety work place. 

The importance of a risk assessment is to inform me and my colleagues what potential risks could occur whilst filming our opening thriller sequence. The risk assessment will provide us with the efficient knowledge of what hazards could happen and how we can prevent them to stay safe whilst creating our thriller. If I was not to have a risk assessment, me and my group members will not be fully aware of the possible hazards that can occur within making our sequence, so it'll be dangerous because we would not know how to prevent them. An example of a hazard that could happen whilst filming our thriller would be to be careful of the roads as the antagonist lays there most of the time. What we thought that could prevent this potential risk was to have a person look out for the cars whilst filming the road scenes so that we are fully aware that the roads a clear and safe to film on. 

When filming the road scenes, where the antagonist lays in the middle of it, we knew that this would be a risk as cars may come and pass by. To prevent from any of us being harmed or not aware that theres a car coming, we had a friend who kindly came along to help with us and have her watch out at the end of the road to see whether cars are coming or not. The risk of being ran over or having drivers speak to us about what we were doing was easily avoided by having someone look out for the incoming cars coming on the road. 

Another risk we came across whilst filming which wasn't on the list was being aware of what was in the forest, because it was night time we were all not fully aware of what was in there. When it came to filming the forest scenes, we prevented not being aware of our surroundings by having a few people light up torches so that we could see what we were doing and what was around us. 

The risk of the weather being wet or unsuitable for our film was avoided as when we were filming it did not rain, however the ground was muddy and quite slippery. We all avoided this by wearing the correct footwear to walk on whilst being in the forest. Also to prepare for any wet weather we carried around an umbrella so that we could continue filming whilst being dry. 

In conclusion, the risk assessment helped us with filming as it provided us with a guideline of all the possible hazards that could occur when we were filming and how we could avoid them. Moreover, the risk assessment prepared us for what was to come when filming and helped us be aware of all the risks we could come across. 

Individual Storyboard - Miss Miller

A storyboard is a sequence of drawings, typically with directions and dialogue, which represents the shots planned for a film or a television programme. Storyboards are important because their the best way to show your vision of the production your creating. The visual aspect allows you to share and explain your vision to your other group members, showing them how exactly your video is going to be mapped out and look like. Also creating storyboards help guide us and structure what will be included in what frame, and the order they would be in. Creating individual storyboards will be helpful as it allows every member to express what visuals they have which they believe will be conventional to our thriller opening scene. Once we have our individual storyboards we will merge all ideas and agree on what to include within our thriller to make it a successful one which follows all the conventions. 

Frames 1- 4 

Overall the whole thriller will be in low-key lighting as it is set in the evening, however there is a flashback which will obviously contrast the normal lighting to show that this is a flashback. The low-key lighting will foreshadows that theres going to be a dark atmosphere within the thriller opening. Within the frames 1- 4 the aim is to create curiosity in the audience. The sequence begins with a boy laying down in the middle of the road, beginning with this will puzzle the audience as they do not understand why anyone would put themselves in such danger. Throughout these frames, it begins with the boy with his eyes shut which implies he must be dreaming or something else. But after this the use of the editing style dissolve will incorporate that theres a change of scenery and that the audience are not where they were at the start of this. The use of the editing will introduce our flashback showing a swing in a mid shot so that they can see the location of where it is at, which is a park. To emphasise the flashback we will enhance the colour making it look more gloomy and misty to convey to the audience that this is not reality, it is a dream that is taking place. Which will hopefully make them feel suspicious and tensed as they do not know what is going to happen in this flashback in the meantime. 

Frames 5 - 8

As its the end of the flashback in frame 5, there appears a little boy swinging on a swing. This will shock the audience as before there was no one on the swing and it was moving by itself. After the next two frames will be of the boy waking up and sitting up as he hears distant chatter,  there will be no sound in this which exaggerates him concentrating hard to listen to the noises. Lastly in frame 8 it'll introduce two more characters which are girls with a two shot, this will automatically inform to the audience that they are the possible protagonist as girls as victims are conventional to a thriller due to their innocence. This drama will also show the state that the girls are in, which will be in a unable state as they are coming back from a night out. The use of this will exaggerate their vulnerability and will make the audience create a closer relationship with them due to their lack of stability so they won't be able to defend themselves if anything was to happen. 

Frames 9 - 12

In these frames it'll mostly be focusing on the two girls, and will give a more insight on who they are and what they're like. Firstly, in frame 9 it'll show in a panning shot the girls walking down from the bus stop. The parallel sound of cars in the background will give the audience a sense of normality, so they can relate to the girls and build a closer relationship with them. This carries on onto frame 10 where the girls finally reach to the location where the mysterious boy is who is the antagonist and one of them notices him and wants to check on him. After, frame 11 will be taken in a point of view shot as one of the girls decides to go on check on him, the slow editing added will create suspense and tension within the audience as the slowness suggest something unexpected is going to happen. I was inspired from the scene in Scream 4 - Olivia's death where he friend slowly walks up the stairs towards where the murder was. I chose to use slow editing because like the girl in scream the slow editing and the slowness creates suspense within the audience especially because they know that the antagonist was there or is there. Also behind this will be a non-diegetic sound which will mirror the girls heartbeat which increases as she gets closer to him, this will make the audience feel apprehensive as they do not know what is bound to happen. Now this section will end with a jump cut to the girl who is on the phone, this will gradually shallow focus her surroundings so that it makes the setting look more blurred. This will make it harder for the audience to see whats happening in the background and also feel tensed as they have just seen her friend walk away towards the antagonist who is on the road. 

Frames 13 - 16

Within the frames 13 - 16 , this will clarify to the audience what character representation is which. Frame 13 is simply an extreme close up of the antagonists eyes opening which will be accompanied with an alerting, non-diegetic sound which will make the audience jump. After this a reaction shot will occur in frame 14 which will show the girls facial expression to her response of the off screen screaming she hears whilst being on the phone. I took this inspiration from the scene called Olivia' death in the film Scream 4. This reaction was shot was used when the friends were in the opposite house looking across the window witnessing the horror of their friend being killed. This inspired me to use a reaction shot so the audience can see the reaction from the girl which they can relate to her as they're just in the same shock as she is in Behind all of this, there will be an non-diegetic, alerting, screechy music that will represent the shock and horror of the audience and the protagonist of just happened as the mysterious boys body is gone but left is the girls friends dead body. 

Frames 17 - 20

These last few frames are all about the chase scene that includes the victim and the antagonist. In frame 17, the girl is running away from the scene where she saw her friend dead and is running towards the forest. Forests are conventional to a thriller as they are dark and isolated so if anyone was going to be in danger, they'll have no help. The next frame will be shot with a handheld camera, this will make the audience relate to her movements as she is running in the woods. I chose this because it will make the audience put themselves in her shoes and feel tensed because if there was something to suddenly change, they'll jump as it is unexpected. After, in the frame 19 it is shot from a low angle of the protagonists perspective as she has fallen onto the ground after tripping over. The low angle will gradually look up to the dark figure that is distant from her path way, this will suggest that it is the antagonist as you cannot see his identity which is conventional to a thriller. As this is a low angle this will portray the girl as weak and the dark figure as more powerful as he is more upper and dominant because she is on the floor. The editing of this will be slow as it will create suspense and tension whilst the girl looks up to the dark figures direction. What inspired for me to include a screechy, non - diegetic music like The 'Heres Johnny' Scene from the film The Shining. This was included when the antagonist was getting closer to the bathroom door where his protagonist was hiding at, the music quieten down the closer he got to the door. I'll incorporate this in my thriller when the girl slowly looks up to see the dark figure as the music will quieten showing that the antagonist is in power and is going to win this chase. Finally in the last frame it will jump cut to this frame and will be a point of view shot of the boy who's wearing a mask looking down on the girl who's fallen over. When this is shown, an alerting, non - diegetic sound will go off which will make the audience jump as it is unexpected to happen and also the on screen sound will be of the girl screaming as she sees him. Both sounds will imply that the chase is over and the girl is in danger due to her reaction, this could also suggest that she is going to be killed by him. The whole opening sequence will finish on a fade of this frame which will creates suspense and curiosity within the audience as it is left on a cliff hanger and they do not know what is going to happen to the girl, whether she dies? or escapes the antagonist who is in her way. 

I believe that my storyboard flows very well, and the audience who watch our thriller will understand the narrative. The editing, cinematography and sound used carefully links each frame together making it easy for the audience to watch and also it helps create suspense, shock and surprise within the audience and conventional to a thriller. The improvements that I'll consider within my storyboard is to include different kinds of sound to give a more impact within the thriller, I feel that the sounds I've included are a little bit repetitive which will eventually make the audience feel bored. But I will discuss with my group this slight problem I have and see if they agree or disagree to include more sounds onto our group storyboard or just to leave it as it. 

When I get into my group, we will all discuss our different types of individual storyboards and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each so that we understand more in depth what we would like our thriller to be like. This will allow us to see if we like any of the ideas and choose to incorporate specific ideas into our group storyboard or whether we simply follow one individual storyboard depending on how conventional it is to our narrative and a thriller. 
There are certain things that I think all my team members will agree on including from my storyboard and that'll be the extreme close up of the antagonists eyes opening. I believe all my members will agree on using this as it shocks the audience and also exaggerates that he is awake after having the flashback making the audience feel tensed. 

Planning our individual storyboards was very efficient in regards with filming our sequence because it sets a guideline of what were going to include in each frame. So that when we are actually behind the camera recording, it wouldn't be as time consuming and chaotic as we know what were doing because were following the group storyboard we have came up with. Also with having a storyboard it is easier to visualise as it is a brief plan of what your going to do and include in the sequence, this is helpful because because we can see through pictures and brief writing what we need to do when actually filming. 

Group Planning - Miss Georgiou

My group consists of three girls; myself , Ella and Rishika. Each week we have a lesson where we have a group meeting and discuss the individual ideas we have created and gathered for our final thriller outcome. Group meetings are essential as they allow us to all communicate face to face and share our ideas on improvements for our planning. Also it allows us as a group to evaluate what we have done well and we could do better to make our thriller opening successful.The planning lays all the flaws and mistakes within our narrative, so this will make us prepared before carrying out the actual film because we will adjust to it which will allow to make our opening scene flow smoothly.

On the 17th October in my media lesson, me and my group sat down and discussed the different types of narratives we have all came up with and decided which narrative we wanted to do. The importance of the individual narrative is that it allows each member to create their own ideas on what they believe will be a good thriller. If we weren't to create individual narratives, each member will not explore their ideas and when creating the group narrative some may disagree with the others. When we finished making our own narratives we came as group and reviewed each narrative, deciding which one we will follow. This was helpful as it allowed us to listen to each others ideas and also make up more ideas to improve the final group narrative. Once me and my group finished discussing each individual narrative, we finally decided that we will follow my narrative. This is because we thought that my narrative conveyed many conventions in a thriller which will make the thriller opening a successful one as it provokes suspense, surprise and tension. 


Our meeting that commenced on the 4th November we discussed the Mise-en-scene that we will include in our thriller. On a piece of A3 paper we divided it into the 5 elements of Mise-en-scene( setting & iconography, costumes & hair and makeup, colour and lighting, body language & facial expressions and positioning. This was to show clearly what was each in their sub headings, once we did this we started filling out the aspects of the each box of what Mise-en-scene we were going to include in our opening thriller. This allowed us to discuss together as a group all the different ideas we all had that we all came to agree with that we thought that would make our thriller successful. For example in our plan we wrote under the subheading lighting, that we would use low-key lighting due to the setting being in the evening and explained what effect it had on the film and audience e.g creates suspense and tension because its dark and it makes it hard to see the antagonist. The planning helped clearly as we gathered the important parts of Mise-en-scene within our thriller which made us organised and at ease. 

On the Friday 7th November, me and my group in the lesson sat down and made a plan of the all the cinematography we were going to include in our thriller. This involved camera angles, movements and positions that we believed would help make the narrative more interesting and shocking. Planning the cinematography helped us portray the different perspectives from both our types of characters protagonist and antagonist i.e and also show which one was more dominant and vulnerable from the two. The planning of these shots were very important because it prepared us on what to include when filming our actual thriller and also helped us establish the different shots that we thought helped tell our narrative clearly. As we planned the cinematography when actually filming it wouldn't be chaotic and we will know what we have to include within our film as we followed the guideline of the plan. 

As sound is very crucial to thrillers we had to make sure we understood why and how we were going to include the sounds that we planned to occur in the scene. We all sat down and made four boxes and explained the four types of sounds we will include within our thriller sequence. We came up with at least a minimum of two sounds for each box because of the importance of sounds within in thriller we made sure we had enough that we believed will have an impact on our audience. The sounds we gathered helped us communicate with each other and evaluate which sounds we thought would have an effect on the audience and get a reaction from them emotionally which will hopefully want them want to carry on watching. An example of sound we decided to use was a non-diegetic sound which will occur on the chase scene where the girl is running in the forest. The scene will mirror her running away but also how the antagonist is getting closer which will create suspense and tension in the audience. 

In our lesson on the 10th November, we made another A3 plan for editing of all the editing styles that we would include in our thriller. Firstly we all looked back on our inspirations post that we made earlier and looked at the editing that we were inspired to use. One of our inspirations was to use a reaction shot, we decided to include this on our plan as we wanted to show a reaction shot within our thriller so that the audience can relate to the character and build a closer relationship with them. This was because the reaction occurred when the girl finds her friend dead on the floor on the road which was part of our narrative, the reaction shot establish her facial expressions and how she was feeling. Planning editing was important because when we actually were going to edit our thriller it will be less time consuming because we knew what we were going to include that'll help our opening more interesting and effective to watch. 

In this lesson on the 12th November we wrote down on a piece of A4 paper the characters we were going to include in our thriller that represented the two roles antagonist and protagonist. Due to our narrative we followed that to gain ideas of what our antagonist would be and how he would look. We came up as it is a thriller, he would be wearing dark clothing as dark colours create enigma due to the colourfulness. Also we discussed how our protagonist will look like what their backgrounds were, we decided to make our two protagonists as girls as this was conventional to a thriller and the audience will sympathise to them as their innocent girls. The planning of our characters allowed us all of us to communicate our ideas and merge them together to make sure our characters included were conventional to a thriller as much as possible. Finally because we have a flashback that includes a young boy we evaluated how this character would look like, but after discussing we came to an agreement to have the boys face hidden just like the antagonist. All of this created enigma and that was our aim for the audience was to feel suspense and tension whilst watching. The planning was good and we would refer back to it when we tell our actors what they will need to do to show their characters in our film and make them look more realistic. 



After this, we all individually made our own storyboards that we thought our narrative should follow. This was helpful as it all gave us a chance to express what we all thought the narrative should run in. The storyboard consisted of drawing and a brief explanation of each frame in our narrative of what we wanted to include. I found this very interesting because when we actually came together and discussed our individual storyboards mine and Rishikas were slightly the same. However Ella's instead of starting with the antagonist laying on the road, she decided to start our narrative with the flashback of the little boy on the swings. Me and Rishika were amazed with this idea and very much liked it. So in our group storyboard we decided to follow Ella's as it was more interesting to watch and it flowed easier so that the audience could understand what they're watching. If we were not to plan our own storyboards and firstly done it as a group we would of missed out everyones ideas that they initially had in mind at first, so I am happy we did the individual storyboards. 

Finally, our last planning session was on the planning of our opening credits we all went off individually and went on the macs to go on the software Final Cut Pro x where we were going to create our opening credits. We done it individually again so that it allowed us to each express our different ideas on what we thought would be good for our opening scene. Once we all had finished our own opening credits we showed each others one by one and explained what the effect it had on the viewers and the film itself. After this we all discussed the advantages and disadvantages of each opening credit so that we all understood where each an every member was feeling towards our creations. Lastly we all came to an agreement that Rishika's Opening credit was the best due to its interesting effects and colours the helped convey the different character representations within our scene. This was helpful because it made us all understand how our final opening credit was conventional to a thriller and how it was applicable to our narrative. 

Through all this group planning, I think it has helped me and my group understand everyones opinions and ideas on what they believed was best to include in our opening thriller to make it successful. It was interesting to see everyones own individual view of every element of our thriller. Without planning we would not know what to do when actually filming the thriller and it'll be chaotic making us stressed and not able to perform at our best. 

Planning Opening Credits - Miss Georgiou

Opening credits are shown at the very beginning and are a list of the most important members of the production. The order of the list usually starts with the director or the most famous actor/actress in the film, this is then followed with the title and then the rest of the members of the production. Credits are usually shown as text overlapped on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show/film. Opening credits within a film are very important as the fonts, style and layout included is what helps convey and foreshadow what type of film the audience will be watching. In this post I will be evaluating the importance and techniques added to the opening credits from the film se7en. 

se7en opening credits

The beginning of the credits of se7en include a variety of extreme close ups of different objects, this gives the viewers an idea of what they re about to watch as it emphasises the size of the subjects. The use of the colour scheme of white and black helps convey that there is a contrast between both good and evil within the film, in a thrillers case protagonist and antagonist. Moreover, both colours represent meanings that juxtapose  each other e.g white represents life, goodness, hope and light. Whereas black represents darkness, mystery , power and death. The use of the two colours makes the scene calming and dull making the audience feel suspense to why the colours are so simple. Also at 0:36 - 0:38 the screen is filtered with the colour red over an image of a man in water, the use of the red filter foreshadows death, blood and murder in the film as red is associated with blood, fire, heat , desire and danger i.e. As the red filter comes unexpectedly this shocks the viewers as they are used to the white, black and greyish scenery that the film was portraying at first, this could imply that there may be an event that is unexpected and will shock the audience.

The Title 

The style of font within this opening credits is a font that mirrors a child's handwriting due to its lack of neatness, this could portray a character in the movie who has the mentality of a child so he could be a psycho in the film. When the actual credits are shown, the words are flashed into different sizes as they dissolve, this gives a 'trippy' visual which makes the audiences eyes widen as they don't expect it. The use of this could represent the mentality of the antagonist and show that his mind set is not balanced, this is conventional to a thriller as it helps portray the characters and make the audience understand a little more about them through the text. 

someone using a razor to peel their skin

The iconography shown in the opening scene of the se7en are sharp objects, drawings and pens etc , the use of these items imply that the person who is creating all of them is planning something that is dangerous which they'll use against their victims. In the scene, theres a hand shown and images but nothing else, this means that the person behind the camera does not want to be seen. The use of this hidden identity is conventional to a thriller as antagonists do not like to be seen as they like to have a surprising introduction in the film which shocks the victims and audience. However, as the audience cannot see who's behind the actions in the scene, they will create a distant relationship with who ever it is as they cannot trust them because they're not showing their identity which creates tension and suspense. The order of appearances and different production jobs are in the following : director, most famous actors names for example Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman,  the title of the film which was shown in larger bolder text,  the other actors that aren't as important as the first two, casting, music  costumes , editors, production , director of photography, co producer, executive producer, written by, produced by and who the directer is again. In this film the name of the director is seen twice, this is because he may be known and they believe the audience will recognise his name due to watching his other creations, so this will be beneficial to the film as it'll produce more sales the more profit everyone makes.

Individual Opening Credit

Individually all of my group members went on the mac and went on the software Final Cut Pro to create our own individual credit that we believed would be suitable for our opening thriller. Firstly when I started creating my thriller I searched for the font I believed had a weird, child look handwriting feel to it. This was the font Nanum Brush Script because the font was clear but a bit crooked which I thought could mirror my antagonist state of mind as when he was child he was traumatised so the font could represent him mentally.  After this I selected the colour font I wanted the writing to be, I decided to use the colour which will be seen on a black screen. The use of this is conventional to a thriller as it extinguishes the "good vs evil "( therefore protagonist vs antagonist). As this followed the narrative theory of Aristotle, I believed the two colours white and black will be perfect together as they both have opposite meanings to each other e.g black represents evil, darkness, death and power whereas white represents goodness, life , hope and innocent. After deciding what colour and font I wanted, I went on the Final Cut Pro x and looked at the effects they had to put on it, I chose the earthquake effect which was simply an effect that made the font shake slyly. I chose this because the shakiness would give the audience a jerky feel because the font wasn't stable. I took this inspiration from the Se7en opening credit because in theres the fonts would flicker and flash foreshadowing that something or someone is not stable within the film. In my film this person would be the antagonist as he has had a bad history so within the film his killing is his instability because he is unpredictable on what his going to do next. This is conventional to the thriller genre because it makes the audience feel tensed as the fonts is not balanced, also credits like this help establish to audience what type of genre the film is and give them an idea on what is going to be about. After adding the earthquake effect, I watched back my opening credit and I thought it was still a bit dull so I searched for more effects add on to the font. I came across the effect prism on Final Cut Pro x and this was simply making the font look more 3D like as the colours added were red, blue and green. The use of the colour red would connote blood, danger and action , all these meanings were essential to my thriller as it did have all three aspects in the opening. So again showing the bit of red will also help establish to the audience what they're watching and inform to them that there may be blood and danger included in the film. I was inspired by the se7en film because of the way it had the flickered font but within mine instead of doing that, I made the font into prism which helped it stand out more which will engage the audience more. Furthermore the positioning of my title will be in the middle so that it immediately grabs the audience attention when it appears. For the order of appearance I decided to copy the format that se7en had which was: famous actors, the title of the film , the actors with less screen time, casting, music, costumes, editors, production , director of photography, co producer, executive producer, written by, produced by and then the directer is again. This is because I believed that the most seen actors should be said first so that audience can learn to know them. When I get back into my group, I will show and explain to them why I made my credits this way and how so that they understand the purposes and why I believe my opening credit will be suitable to our opening thriller scene. 

Rishikas Tile part 1 

Rishika's Opening Credit

In Rishikas opening credit she chose to use the colours white and black for the word ' Humanity' , the font white and the background black. This was to show good and evil within the film, because in our thriller there will be an antagonist and victims which follow the Aristotle narrative theory. The font she used is Octin Spray Paint, this font looks quite odd as it is all in capitals as well as making a bold statement to the audience that this is the title of the film. I think this draws the audiences attention and also the boldness states that something or something big is going to happen within the film which will have an impact on the viewers. The effect she added onto the credit was the underwater effect from Final cut pro x , the use of this made the title move around the screen as if it was wave. This could suggest theres going to be a ripple effect within the film which impacts characters in it, also the underwater effect makes the title look more gloomy making the audience want to continue watching the movie. Secondly in Rishika's title there are two parts, one being the "Humanity" and the other being "Off". The Off occurs straight after seeing the first part, this exaggerates its placement and also emphasises on the word off suggesting that something or someone is going to behave differently. As you

Rishika title part 2

see above, the Humanity is coloured white, however the off in her title is still white but with a red outline. This suggests to the audience that theres going to be blood involved as the colour red indicates death, blood and danger. I think the use of the change of colours of the outline emphasises the danger the protagonists are going to face in the film and plus like the sudden change in the title, it could also imply theres going to be a sudden change in someones life in the film. The advantages are that the separation of the two parts of the title suggest that theres going to be a clear divide between the antagonist and protagonist but as the off is outlined with red, it suggests the victims will be caught by the antagonist. This makes the audience feel curious and tense as they want to know who the antagonist is. Also because the title has a wave effect on it, it makes it catch the eye of the audience and make them want to follow the waves of the title, like they would want to follow the narrative. My only disadvantages are that the use of having two separate parts of the title may be time consuming within the clip, considering this is only the opening thriller it might make the audience feel bored. Also as Rishika stated that she may include an earthquake effect also with the underwater effect, I think this would be too much and distracting for the credits, as the most important thing we want is for the audience to pay attention to our actual thriller opening. In spite of that, I think Rishika's idea communicates all important things across within our thriller to the audience which is very essential.

Ella's Opening Credit

Ella's title included a coloured background which had a ghostly effect as it had a vignette affect but in the colour white. Also in the shape of which could be a splatter of blood, is the title in a dull normal font saying the full title ' Humanity Off'.  As white connotes life, hope and innocence, the colour of the blob like the vignette background could represent the protagonist in the film suggesting they're vulnerable. In contrast the font of the title is black like the soft focus in the middle of the frame, this could represent the antagonist as black usually connotes danger, death and power. When played, the title does flicker and shakes which can be used to show the antagonists life as disturbed and a blur and also how they're feeling. The advantages of her credits will be that theres a clear example of defining that theres going to be an antagonist and victim in our film due to the two colours black and white being used together. Also the flickering and shakes in the title makes the title look more interesting to look at which draws the audiences attention to the title. However, the disadvantages of Ella's credits will be that the use of an X-ray like filter, could be misguided and inform to our audience that the film is a sci-fi thriller, which it isn't and it doesn't really suit our narrative. Also I think that theres too much of the colour white, which could be seen as the film is about the victims when it is really about the antagonist and his power. To conclude, I don't think Ella's credits really connect with our narrative and I wouldn't recommend it for our final credits due to its lack of conventions for our personal thriller. 

The Opening Credits we decided to go with was Rishika's. This is because of the interesting way she introduced the title with the underwater effect, this exaggerated the antagonist mind, implying it is always the same as its a ripple effect and will effect others. Also she use the colours white and black which establish the different roles in our thriller i.e protagonists and antagonist. Moreover the colour red which is outlined in the word off suggests danger, blood and action which is conventional to a thriller. I believe that our credits will be really interesting for the audience to watch because of the effects and the colours we have used and Rishika's opening credits follow the conventions in our thriller easily. Also the order of the production will be similar to the films se7en which was director, most seen actors ,  the title of the film , the other actors that aren't as important as the first two, casting, music  costumes , editors, production , director of photography, co producer, executive producer, written by, produced by and who the directer is again. We chose to include the production order this way because we want the audience to know who directed the film mainly and also the main actors that had a key role within the thriller film.