Location Reports with photos

This close up of the house is going to be showing during our the opening scene when the producers name etc goes on the scene. (This represents the orphan) we are also going to put this photo in black and white to create tention. We chose this shot of the house because it creates a dramatic impact of the scary house.

SHOT OF LIVING ROOM

 This shot is where we will be doing some of our scenes of our thriller; it is the shot shown when Scarlett water breaks, rocking the baby and the scene where her mother Florence breaks down the bad news. We used the living room area as it is very 'homely' but contrast the reality of what actually happens.



SHOT OF DOOR



This is the shot of the front door which is used in shot 5 when Comfort (play Scarlett) is shown when coming back from work.

SHOT OF BATHROOM



These are the pictures using during shot 1 & 2 where th pregnancy test scene and the mother walking in scene is shown. This is when you first come to contact with the two characters.


we chose this house because its victorian........ show their weathy/ old fashioned (like florence cole- old fashioned mind set)....

Animatic (unfinished)

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This is our groups unfinished animatic. Unfinished in the sense that there is no music and audio, over it. we will be putting the finished one up as soon as we get our music done.

By doing the animatic task was very effective for me and my group because it gave us the chance to use premiere pro, and gave me an understanding of how to use this software and to see if all the seconds for the storyboard worked out.

This also helped us descide of what music we should use during each shot, and how long for. Overall this was very basic to do but with getting the right seconds of the shots was what we found hard at first.

Production Scedule

Production Schedule Title of Media Project: First Two minutes Of a Thriller Production by: SMC Productions

Date: 10-3-12	Time: 12- 3 pm	Activity: Filming	Location: Ashley Rd., Islington.	People Required	Props/Equipment Required	Other Items (or a To Do List)
10-3-12	12:00-12:45	Bathroom Scenes.	Bathroom, Victorian house on Ashley Road, Islington.	Comfort Botha, Jessica Ansah.	Equipment: Camera, Tripod, Mirrors to direct the sunlight. Props: costumes and the pregnancy test for Comfort Botha.	Shots we most achieve: P.O.V, C.U, Mid.S Costumes: Comfort needs stay-at-home clothes, same for Jessica, as they will be in their home.
10-3-12	12:45- 1:00pm	Break
10-3-12	1:00 – 1: 30	Water breaking and pregnancy Scene	Living room, Victorian house on Ashley Road, Islington.	Comfort Botha	Equipment: Camera, Tripod. Props: Towels and costume, glass of water (to create the water breaking).	Shots we must achieve: P.O.V, C.U Costumes: Long black maxi dress to show baby bump. Towel robe for actual water breaking.
10-3-12	1:30- 3:00	Consequent scenes. They are all with the same costumes.	Living room, bedroom, Victorian house on Ashley Road, Islington.	Comfort Botha, Jessica Ansah	Equipment: Camera, Tripod Props: costumes e.g. coat, bag, work shoes for Comfort Botha and the ‘baby’ which was created with sweaters	Shots: P.O.V, C.U to build tension. Static shots with tripod. No zooms Costumes:

By doing a production schedule helped my group maintain our time managaments within the time we were shooting. This was very useful becuause we were more aware of what time we would be doing certain shots and the type of shots we were actually doing. This also kept us up to date by setting certain targets for ourselfs; we knew when we had to complete it. At first we found hard to create this but after looking at an production scedule template it was then easy to create our owns.  

Casting notes with photos

SMC Productions

Casting Notes

For The Full Movie:   Scarlett Cole

                                         Tommy Cole (not actually shown)

                                         Florence Cole

Scarlett Cole: Comfort Gathoni 

This is our main character. The audience will view this character, first of all, when she is 16 and pregnant. She will be the mother of Raymond, the child who will haunt her in her dreams as she believes he is dead; she later then meets him in the orphanage, without knowing its her actual son. This will create a dramatic irony as the audience will be aware its her son but she wont.

Scarlett's character is very vulrable, but tries to keep peace with her evil mother, she is sweet and still very innocent and wants to do the best for her child. We want the audience to really emphasise with her. Playing this character will be Comfort Gathoni.

The main reason why we selected Comfort Gathoni is because she’s a drama student. I am also a drama student so i've been able to see her work of acting, which is very effective. She will be able to do this role because she has done roles like this in drama productions before hand. She is very good at what she does and she will be able to get the characterisation of the character, Scarlett.

Florence cole: Jessica Ansah

This is another main character in this film. This is Scarlett Cole’s mother. If Scarlett Cole was the protagonist, Florence Cole would be the antagonist. She did not approve of Scarlett’s decision to keep her baby when she found out she was pregnant as she has a very old fashioned mind set of teenage pregnancies. She is the one who mysteriously tells her daughter that her baby is dead.

Florence's character is very evil, she is old fashioned so when she found out her daughter was pregnant she was very ashamed as she felt her family would be look upon. Jessica Ansah will be playing the role of Florence Cole.

The reason why we have selected Jessica Ansah is because she is also a drama student and is capable of doing the role of an old woman,  as she has taken roles like this in the past. She has had the potential to do any of these roles before hand.

inspiration films for our thriller movie.

we looked at 'The Others' as the woman in this film is unstable likewise our character Scarlett.
this film also has a supernatural element which is what we are going for in our movie. With the haunting of something which we are showing in our opening inspired me, to think how we should show this

Looking at the movie 'The Unborn' gave me the inspiration of our film; this has many elements which we would want to interpret in our opening. As this gives a supernatural thrill and has a daunting son likewise what happens in our film script. With the anticipation and tension within the music is what we would want for ours to give that suspicion thrill to it.

Inspiration for our score for different scenes.

This sound inspires our score as it represents for when the girl Scarlett awaits for her pregnacy test and comes to realisation that she is pregnant.

This sound represents when the mum goes in to the girls room and takes she takes the baby

The uses of the heart beat sound indicates the opening scene when the mother finds out the daugher is pregnant.

The use of the baby crying noise represents the final scene when the daughter is in the babies room and can hear noises as the supernatural starts

The Unspoken Truth (Shooting Script)

This shooting script shows the audience of what we are going to do in the two minutes opening at particular times.

Doing this was very helpful as it helped reinforce what my group will be doing at certain scenes and what type of scene we would be doing.