Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Target Audience
Our target audience is people aged 15-24 who ar fans of horror and are looking for a thrill. I have a feeling it would be more for the male audience. There is no specific social class that this is aimed at, as there is no reference to any social class within the context. This film definitely encourages uncomfortable audience vouyerism.
Production Company
I think our would be produced and invested in by a small independent British film company. A good company would be Warp Productions, who produced 'This is England'. This is because our film is a short film, only 10-15 minutes long, much like the original Saw film which was only 9 minutes. Our film features very little voice acting as well as little budget, so the use of A-list actors wouldn't be required.
Cast List
Main Protagonist:
-Alex Poynter
Victims:
-Bea Campbell
-Camille Kimber
-Cate Hoare
-Chloe Roberts
-Elly Sams
-Gemma Dyer
-Gabby Meech
-Lainy Black
-Lottie Tolhurst
-Sophie Hyde-Parker
-Alistair Toovey
-Charlie Hiett
-Greg McGanty
-Josh Jackson
-Kaleem Ali Khan
-Kramer Lin
-Seb Hesseltine
-Lukas Dressler
-Oscar Mitchell Heggs
-Ben Marks
-Jamie Hajigeorgiou
-Senibo Nelson-Jaja
-Alex Poynter
Victims:
-Bea Campbell
-Camille Kimber
-Cate Hoare
-Chloe Roberts
-Elly Sams
-Gemma Dyer
-Gabby Meech
-Lainy Black
-Lottie Tolhurst
-Sophie Hyde-Parker
-Alistair Toovey
-Charlie Hiett
-Greg McGanty
-Josh Jackson
-Kaleem Ali Khan
-Kramer Lin
-Seb Hesseltine
-Lukas Dressler
-Oscar Mitchell Heggs
-Ben Marks
-Jamie Hajigeorgiou
-Senibo Nelson-Jaja
Props List
Set Design Requirements
-Wooden Planks (Provided)
We needed these to create the boarded up effect on the window.
-Wall Paper (Provided)
We used this to make the inside of the room look like bricks.
-White Paint (Provided)
We used this to whitewash the walls of the second room
General Props
-Fake Blood - £7 (Alex)
We used a lot of this to put on all our dead bodies.
-Metal Framed Bed - £70 (Tamara)
This is the bed that we wrecked that the protagonist woke up on.
-General Ruinable Clothes - £30 (Tamara)
These were the clothes we bought that we could wreck and cover in blood so that our original cast didn't have to wreck any of their own stuff.
Group Roles
Tom Warhurst - Director
-Props List
-Costumes
-Sound
-Location
-Set Design
-Film Poster
Tamara Middleton - Producer and Assistant Director
-Props List
-Costumes
-Cast List
-Shooting Schedule
-Group Roles
-Production Portfolio
JJ Benzimra - Editor and Head of Photography
-Equipment
-Film Poster
-Lighting
-Final Cut Editing
-Logo of RedRum Productions (Original Name)
Alex Roberts - Editor and Head of Lighting
-Storyboards
-Shooting Schedule
-Sound
-Final Cut Editing
-Props List
-Costumes
-Sound
-Location
-Set Design
-Film Poster
Tamara Middleton - Producer and Assistant Director
-Props List
-Costumes
-Cast List
-Shooting Schedule
-Group Roles
-Production Portfolio
JJ Benzimra - Editor and Head of Photography
-Equipment
-Film Poster
-Lighting
-Final Cut Editing
-Logo of RedRum Productions (Original Name)
Alex Roberts - Editor and Head of Lighting
-Storyboards
-Shooting Schedule
-Sound
-Final Cut Editing
Monday, 14 December 2009
Treatment
We've changed the treatment many times since we started and many different storys emerged from the previous treatments that were not chosen as the final ideas. JJ created this as our treatment that we will stick with.
ACT I
·In the first sequence we are introduced to our tragic protagonist, Deacon, he is distressed, he finds himself in a delirious state on a medical bed, inside a dimly lit room, barely alive and heavily drugged. The only light he can see is coming from a nearby furnace. He decides to get up. He stumbles, drunk by fatigue, into a table. This is where he bumps accidently into a light chord hanging on a metal chain. He pulls the chain, and the light hurts his eyes. For the brief second he can see, before the lights flash out, he sees blood and scratches on the walls. He panics and starts to breathe heavily. He stumbles around, and finds his way into the next room. Here the floor is wet. He bumps into another table. On this table he finds an old torch, which is barely working. He shines it briefly on what appears to be a corpse. He approaches the body, and gets close to the body’s face. Suddenly the bodies’ eyes flash open. We realise that there are more than one body in the room, then all the bodies’ in the room try to scream although, they do have their mouths stitched closed. Suddenly he is hit on the back of the head, and he lapses into unconsciousness.
ACT II
·He awakens in the same state as before, on a bed, in a different room. Now he finds himself hooked up to all sorts of aged medical equipment. He attempts to pulls one of the needles out of his arm. Suddenly a deep, evil and ominous voice comes from somewhere in the room: that says “Baaaad idea”. Deacon is increasingly stressed, again he begins to breathe heavily, he is wild eyed and sweating. He tries to scream: “MMmmmmmm!!” but is unable to and discovers that his mouth is stitched together also. Some of the stitches rip open and Deacon exclaims “Who Are You?!” To which he gets no apparent answer. Although he doesn’t want to, he pulls several needles out of his arm. Blood begins to pour out of his veins. And he lapses into unconsciousness once more, and as his eyes begin to close, a looming figure walk awkwardly towards his bedside.
Act III
·The sequence opens with Deacon awakening, he is alive, barely. He is on a chair, but he is not attached to any sort of equipment, although he has a large gash in the side of his head. He is in a windowless, door less room. The only furniture inside is an antique wooden dining chair and an antique lamp. He surveys the room; he sees something written in one corner of the room. He stumbles over there, on his hands and knees. This message read: “Her blood will tell the way” and then some arrows pointing to back to where he was sitting. Behind his chair, he sees the feint outline of a dead body. He sees a wedding ring, and note clutched in its hand. He crawls over to the body. In his stupor, he grabs the note out of the hand. On the note it read “Love is boundless, get out whilst you can”, he then saw that the ring on the body was that of his wife. He screams and begins sobbing violently. He then sees his wives face and closes her eyes with his hands. He shifts his wife’s wait and underneath her there is another note that reads, “Adultery is a sin. The path of redemption begins here” he then grabs the lamp and repeatedly hits his wife’s face. Blood begins to come out of her head. It falls on the floor and lights come up in the whole room, revealing a trap door in the corner. He runs up to it and opens it. He runs frantically through a tunnel and breaks open the door at the end. He falls through. As he looks up he is greeted by the moonlight. He is now at a roadside. On the sign, in blood, it reads, “Take the hard way out” with an arrow pointing downwards. Underneath it lays a shotgun. He stumbles over there, still hysteric. He picks it up and sees that it has one round in it. He cocks it. The screen goes black, and all we hear is a gunshot.
ACT I
·In the first sequence we are introduced to our tragic protagonist, Deacon, he is distressed, he finds himself in a delirious state on a medical bed, inside a dimly lit room, barely alive and heavily drugged. The only light he can see is coming from a nearby furnace. He decides to get up. He stumbles, drunk by fatigue, into a table. This is where he bumps accidently into a light chord hanging on a metal chain. He pulls the chain, and the light hurts his eyes. For the brief second he can see, before the lights flash out, he sees blood and scratches on the walls. He panics and starts to breathe heavily. He stumbles around, and finds his way into the next room. Here the floor is wet. He bumps into another table. On this table he finds an old torch, which is barely working. He shines it briefly on what appears to be a corpse. He approaches the body, and gets close to the body’s face. Suddenly the bodies’ eyes flash open. We realise that there are more than one body in the room, then all the bodies’ in the room try to scream although, they do have their mouths stitched closed. Suddenly he is hit on the back of the head, and he lapses into unconsciousness.
ACT II
·He awakens in the same state as before, on a bed, in a different room. Now he finds himself hooked up to all sorts of aged medical equipment. He attempts to pulls one of the needles out of his arm. Suddenly a deep, evil and ominous voice comes from somewhere in the room: that says “Baaaad idea”. Deacon is increasingly stressed, again he begins to breathe heavily, he is wild eyed and sweating. He tries to scream: “MMmmmmmm!!” but is unable to and discovers that his mouth is stitched together also. Some of the stitches rip open and Deacon exclaims “Who Are You?!” To which he gets no apparent answer. Although he doesn’t want to, he pulls several needles out of his arm. Blood begins to pour out of his veins. And he lapses into unconsciousness once more, and as his eyes begin to close, a looming figure walk awkwardly towards his bedside.
Act III
·The sequence opens with Deacon awakening, he is alive, barely. He is on a chair, but he is not attached to any sort of equipment, although he has a large gash in the side of his head. He is in a windowless, door less room. The only furniture inside is an antique wooden dining chair and an antique lamp. He surveys the room; he sees something written in one corner of the room. He stumbles over there, on his hands and knees. This message read: “Her blood will tell the way” and then some arrows pointing to back to where he was sitting. Behind his chair, he sees the feint outline of a dead body. He sees a wedding ring, and note clutched in its hand. He crawls over to the body. In his stupor, he grabs the note out of the hand. On the note it read “Love is boundless, get out whilst you can”, he then saw that the ring on the body was that of his wife. He screams and begins sobbing violently. He then sees his wives face and closes her eyes with his hands. He shifts his wife’s wait and underneath her there is another note that reads, “Adultery is a sin. The path of redemption begins here” he then grabs the lamp and repeatedly hits his wife’s face. Blood begins to come out of her head. It falls on the floor and lights come up in the whole room, revealing a trap door in the corner. He runs up to it and opens it. He runs frantically through a tunnel and breaks open the door at the end. He falls through. As he looks up he is greeted by the moonlight. He is now at a roadside. On the sign, in blood, it reads, “Take the hard way out” with an arrow pointing downwards. Underneath it lays a shotgun. He stumbles over there, still hysteric. He picks it up and sees that it has one round in it. He cocks it. The screen goes black, and all we hear is a gunshot.
Inspiration
SAW
A young man, David, is in an interrogation room talking to an unnamed, unsympathetic police officer. David is in handcuffs, and he has blood on his face and shirt. He is smoking a cigarette. He tells the officer that after he finished his work as an orderly at the hospital, he was knocked unconscious and taken to a large room.Inside the room, David was strapped to a chair with a large, rusty metal device locked onto his head. To his left was a small television, which began playing a video showing a frightening puppet, named Billy, that tells him that the device on his head is a "reverse beartrap", which is hooked into his jaws and will pry his face open with great force if he does not unlock it in time. The puppet tells David that the only key to unlock the device is in the stomach of his dead cellmate (Dean Francis).David is able to break free of his bonds, but by doing so he sets off a timer on the back of the device. Across the room, he finds the body that the puppet mentioned, but also finds that the man is actually alive but under paralysis. David panics and slices into the man's stomach anyway. After finding the key, David unlocks the device and throws it to the ground, just as it snaps open. David escapes death from the device.David begins screaming and weeping in horror. At the entrance to the room, the puppet from the video appears on a tricycle. He congratulates David on surviving, and tells him that he has proven he is no longer ungrateful for being alive.The movie ends with the police officer asking "Are you grateful, David?" causing the young man to again break down. As the end credits begin to roll, a CGI replica of the bathroom used later in the full Saw film is shown, although with some differences. A small peephole is shown with an eye visible behind it, which was a concept reused in another trap in Saw.
A young man, David, is in an interrogation room talking to an unnamed, unsympathetic police officer. David is in handcuffs, and he has blood on his face and shirt. He is smoking a cigarette. He tells the officer that after he finished his work as an orderly at the hospital, he was knocked unconscious and taken to a large room.Inside the room, David was strapped to a chair with a large, rusty metal device locked onto his head. To his left was a small television, which began playing a video showing a frightening puppet, named Billy, that tells him that the device on his head is a "reverse beartrap", which is hooked into his jaws and will pry his face open with great force if he does not unlock it in time. The puppet tells David that the only key to unlock the device is in the stomach of his dead cellmate (Dean Francis).David is able to break free of his bonds, but by doing so he sets off a timer on the back of the device. Across the room, he finds the body that the puppet mentioned, but also finds that the man is actually alive but under paralysis. David panics and slices into the man's stomach anyway. After finding the key, David unlocks the device and throws it to the ground, just as it snaps open. David escapes death from the device.David begins screaming and weeping in horror. At the entrance to the room, the puppet from the video appears on a tricycle. He congratulates David on surviving, and tells him that he has proven he is no longer ungrateful for being alive.The movie ends with the police officer asking "Are you grateful, David?" causing the young man to again break down. As the end credits begin to roll, a CGI replica of the bathroom used later in the full Saw film is shown, although with some differences. A small peephole is shown with an eye visible behind it, which was a concept reused in another trap in Saw.
Added Ideas
There were several ideas that we decided to change while planning the final story. In our original there was going to be sunlight coming through either a crack or the ceiling, but we thought about adding our own artificial light instead as this would mean the light would be dimmer, and we would have more control over it. Also Tom wanted to be able to shoot on set out of school, in a barn or somewhere similar but we had to consider the idea of doing the shoot in the studio as again it would give us more control over the set as well as the fact we would not be affected by the cold.
Our Group
I was put in a group with Tom, JJ and Tamara which I was happy with. At first everyone pitched ideas but as the original story was already quite strong and clear there wasnt much that we discussed at first. However, after several discussions amongst ourselves and with other teachers and started to see a few ideas that needed to be changed without making a dramatic change to the story.
The Chosen Ideas
The ideas that were voted for were Tom's, whos idea was of a man waking up in what was a dark room, and discovering bodies in another room, Lottie's idea, called "Five" and referred to the inverted pentagram, and how one man uses its power to try and recover his deceased wife and the final idea being Storm's, about a man who drives to a house checks the inside in a way that looks like hes looking for a certain someone, before leaving. On his way back down the road he stops for a child standing in the road wearing a mask.
Saturday, 12 December 2009
Friday, 11 December 2009
My Thriller Idea
My idea started with a black shot with the sound of a female running and screaming. Suddenly the female comes into view and she is running through the forest at night. There is another black shot of a name or two, before cutting to her running this time looking behind her as she runs leading to it to cut to an over-shoulder shot of a dark figure walking after her. More credits in black, then another wide shot of her running then another over-shoulder shot before the character turns to the left and walks out of the shot while she keeps running forward. She turns and realises that he is no longer after her so she slows and looks around. After screaming the figure comes out of nowhere and the audience hears her being killed and her body dropping to the ground before being dragged off while the screen again is in total darkness.
Thrillers
A thriller is a genre of literature, film and television that contain fast pace, and are characterized by a resourceful and intelligent hero who has to over come a more powerful villain who presents obstacles for the hero.They often take place in isolateed areas, like deserts, arctic conditions, under the sea and deep space. Although the heroes are usually men, in recent years there has been a more frequent use of female characters to create a greater sense of vulnerability.There are many different sub-genres of thrillers, like action, spy and drama thrillers.
These are some examples of thrillers. In January we will be shooting our own thrillers so must take inspiration from as many different places as possible for our own ideas.
These are some examples of thrillers. In January we will be shooting our own thrillers so must take inspiration from as many different places as possible for our own ideas.
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