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Considering Sound

As a group, we had to decide on music and sound for our final piece. The music had to fit in with our chosen genre (psychological thriller) and had to engage the audience while creating the desired atmosphere within the film opening.

We thought that a good idea would be to build up various sounds, overlapping them to create a group of different sounds to convey the genre.

For the opening of our film, we have used a montage so we would need to consider a big range of sounds to build up as the effect would be for the sound to overlap each other and suddenly cut out to create a tense atmosphere relating to the plot line of our film.

The sound we used would need to be royalty free in order to avoid copyright so we looked at a range of royalty free websites and found ‘incompetech’ which had a range of different sounds for specific genres which was appropriate for our film. We looked at the horror genre.

We decided to use Bump in the Night as our main piece of sound as we felt this would build up the atmosphere we were aiming for and convey the genre in the best possible way.

As we were creating a montage, we needed a build up of sound to create tension and so we decided to incorporate Slow Ticking Clock and Deep Noise within the piece to show a harsher atmosphere.

Compared Characters To Actors

Laura Thomas compared character,
Laura Thomas Comparing Main Actress

Laura Thomas Comparing Other Actors

Lauren Dinnes compared character,
http://laurendinnes-asmedia.blogspot.com/2011/03/character-profiles.html

Final Film Opening - Blue Productions - Tick List

2nd Rough Cut

Feedback.

Year 11 - Ages 15 - 16
Titles aren't consistent
Music is too loud at the beginning
They really liked the use of the news reporters
They liked the use of the shoes and jeans at the puddle
They didn't like the use of the static sound effect when the man appears in the mirror
They loved the use of the girl in the mirror and how the man appears
It keeps you interested
Love the sound in the background
Maybe we should use some more different camera angles
Pictures matched the genre
Some parts were hard to see due to the lighting
The images that were flashing in and out could be a bit longer as they couldn't see them
16 out of 25 wanted to watch the rest of the film

Year 13 - Ages 17 - 18
These are media students so they are looking at the film at a different perspective
Need to sort out the titles
The news reports are really good
One of the news reporters is on the screen for too long before they actually speak
The font doesn't go with the genre
Font needs to be more white rather than blue to enable better vision of it
Love the title

They think that we should change the opening completely so that its all back to front and we see the kitchen scene before the news reports.

1st Rough Cut

Health and Safety

When filming we had to take into cosideration health and safety aspects within location and surroundings to ensure the safety of our actors, ourselves and people around our locations.
We had various locations in which we were filming so we had to make sure we thought about health and safety when it came to the filming.
1st location - Street (CCTV)

-We had to make sure the young girl (Angel) was safe walking down the road and make sure the road wasnt busy without disrupting any drivers.

2nd location - Field/Forrest

-When filming in an exterior location we had to be aware of the environment and so made sure not to litter or harm any animals that may be around.

-We also respected any people that were out as we came across some dog walkers as it is a public place and had to act politely to any public memeber around the filming location.

3rd location - Kitchen

-This scene was a busy scene with 3 of the actors featured coming in and out of the scene. We had to make sure the room was clear avoiding any trips and falls and injuries to our actors.

-We also made sure props were safely handled (butter knife) by an adult.
4th location - Bathroom
-When filming in the bathroom and with use of water, we had to be aware of the electrical equipment (camera) we were using to film in order for no damage to occur so made sure the camera was away from any water being used as this would not only damage the equipment but could also harm actors or ourselves.

By Amy Welsh & Laura Thomas

Final Shotlist

Final Shotlist

Initial Shotlist

Initial Shotlist

Animatic Storyboard

We created an animatic storyboard using pictures to show a true perspective on how our opening would run. We added sound and transitions to give an rough idea of how our opening would be when finished.

 

Filmed and Edited by Amy Welsh & Laura Thomas

Final Costume Design

 Villain

The villain in our opening scene is only shown for a brief minute but is wearing dark colours to connote death and fear. Whilst not giving to much away.

 Mother

The mother in the opening scene is in her kitchen making breakfast for both her children her teenage boy and her young girl, she is making toast by spreading butter along bread using a knife. We gave the mother a kitchen as a typical, stereotypical  place where a mother would be in the morning making food for her children.

 Teenage Boy

The teenage brothers main props were car keys and a blackberry. We chose these as they both are used by most stereotypical  teenage boys who drive and are up to date with technology.

In the finial film we changed our prop from a blue small bow to a small red and white hair clip which has juxtaposition as the red represents blood and danger where as the white connotes innocence and purity. We changed the blue bow to a red and white hair clip as the hair clip matched the young actresses dress which  showed her age and school. Instead of just showing how innocent the young girl was through the blue bow and showing the psychological thriller genre through the blue we wanted a juxtaposition using more colours to connote more.



Final Locations

Here is an exterior setting, we chose this for 'Abbie Smith' to walk through as would create an eerie atmosphere for the audience. In the exterior setting it blocked out the sun light making the scene darker and easier to see 'Abbie' without an orange tinge in the frame. Using this setting empahsised that the child is alone making it easier for the audience to establish danger aswell as her dress connoting innocence, death and blood.

Using this interior setting, it makes it easier for the viewers to connect with the characters by using versimilatude. The kitchen is a room that commonly used in every household, again although the audience to their own lives with the characters in our film. Using this setting allowed us to use artificle lighting to show a realistice morning in the house. This alos enabled us to get a clear shot of the actors, and their faces were not shadowed alloing the audience to see there facial expressions.

Here we see 'Abbie walking down the stairs, we used also for the audience to connect with the characters fas again stair are comonly used in the household everyday.

Consent Form

For all of our actors that we decided to cast, we had to gain consent from them to be in our film and be credited on the film and uploaded to you tube. We got this consent by handing out consent forms to each actor for them to sign.

For anyone under the age of 16, we needed parental consent so we followed the same process of handing out forms to gain consent.

I……………….give consent for myself/my son/my daughter (delete as appropriate) to be featured on Blogger and Youtube.

I would/would not like my name to be credited on the final film.

Name………………………

Signed……………………...

This is an example of the consent form given to actors to be part of our film. We had to use consent forms to make sure we did not breach any ethical guidelines. Consent forms had to be presented to show we had gained permission for our actors to be viewed on programmes such as Youtube and Blogger and the World Wide Web to the public.

Filming Schedule Before asking Actors

 

Created and Posted by Laura Thomas

Audition Scripts

Ellen Endicott


Mr ROY

We used two scripts for the autions for the news reporters, one in english and one in french. we translated the english script for the french people autioning. We did this to have the aution script shorter than the real script so we got a taster of how they acted before they came into our film.
We decided for the four main characters to take an aution script from the finial script so we got a full idea of their acting potential.

Audition for the Brother

For the audition we only had one audition as we had to change the character last minute as we had casting issues for the role of a father, however we found that a brother for the film would work better and would match the criteria we needed throughout the storyline.

Dan Whymark we liked,  he had confidence in acting and how he had acting experience from school, we enjoyed his audition and could tell he would act well with children and feel comfortable acting with a younger female as his sister in the piece as he has his own younger sister in real life.

We also found that Dan had a lack of projection in his voice. However we talked to Dan after the audition  and we found that Dan would happily try to work on the problem before the finial filming.

Audition for News Reporter 4

This is the audition for Miss Peacock.

Although being a teacher I feel that the facial expressions used was not realistic automatically not making Miss Peacock correct for the role. Also being a teacher it would make it unrealistic for her to get to the locations.

Filmed and edited by Lauren Dinnes
Voice-over by Jess Foster
Analysis by Jess Foster


This is the audition for Victoria Lucas.

Vicky Lucas did not speak with sincerity and spoke to enthusiastically for the role of a News Reporter. She did not take direction well, and was unable to get to the location. Although she delivered her lines well she didn't act them and came unprepared and did not taking into consideration how a reporter would sit or stand therefore the group came to a decision not to cast her for the role.

Filmed by Lauren Dinnes and Jess Foster

Edited by Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over by Jess Foster

Analysis By Jess Foster

Audition for News Reporter 3

This is the audition for Michael Smart.

Michale Smart is very photogenic, appropriate for the part of the News Reporter, as his body language is formal and appropriate on camera. His voice is clear although he does not speak with clear diction. However he is able to project his voice. The weakness of this audition was he did not experiment with movement although he was restricted with the script he did not experiment with hand gestures. Also there are issues with transport, getting him to the film location therefore we were not able to pick him for the part, we also did not feel that he was ready.

Filmed By Lauren Dinnes and Jess Foster
Edited By Jess Foster
Voice-over By Jess Foster
Analysis by Jess Foster

This is the audition for Angus Roy.

Angus Roy is also photogenic and acts appropriately on camera making him already great for the part of the French News Reporter. He was incredibly responsible and organised and took direction well, and spoke with great diction projected his voice clearly.  Fortunately he is able to get to our location making it easy for us to decided that he would fit and play the French News Reporter well.

Filmed By Lauren Dinnes and Jess Foster
Edited By Lauren Dinnes
Voice-over By Jess Foster
Analysis by Jess Foster

This is the audition for Robyn Watts.

This is the audition for the German News Reporter.  As Robyn started his audition nerves got to him, and he had bad organisation skills and struggles to take direction and found it hard to translate the lines off the script to German. However this was a fault on our behalf as we could have researched and translated it for him making it easier in his audition. Baring in mind the bad organisation skills we felt that he could be unreliable and decided not to take the risk.

Filmed By Lauren Dinnes
Edited By Lauren Dinnes
Voice-over By Jess Foster
Analysis by Jess Foster

Audition for News Reporter 2

This is the audition for Joanna Dennis.

Having such experience with drama, Joanna Dennis was able to give a great performance. She spoke clearly and projected her voice well. Her facial expression were believable and as a group we felt that the audience would be able to connect to this as she acted very similar to those reporting in the media. She was able to improvise and used silence and pauses correctly, she was sincere and serious making her perfect for the role.

Filmed By Lauren Dinnes and Jess Foster

Edited by Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over by Jess Foster

Analysis by Jess Foster

This is the audition for Ellen Endicott.

Having previous experience reporting, Ellen Endicott as expected performed well. She also spoke with great diction and delivered her lines well to camera, giving great eye contact and was focused and never came out of role. As she was reading the script given to speak the next line she stayed in character whilst reading. She is well presented and organised making her perfect for the role.

Filmed By Lauren Dinnes, Jess Foster, Laura Thomas and Amy Welsh

Edited by Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over by Jess Foster

Analysis by Jess Foster

Audition for News Reporter 1

This is the audition for Mr Harries.

Glyn was from the start confident and knew he was capable for the role. He took direction well and he delivered his lines well to the camera drawing the audience in to what he was saying as he made it interesting whilst making it serious and sincere. Glyn is photogenic and has had experience on camera. We chose him for the part of the News Reporter 1.

Filmed By Jess Foster, Lauren Dinnes, Laura Thomas and Amy Welsh
Edited By Lauren Dinnes
Voice-over By Jess Foster

Analysis by Jess Foster


This is the audition for Mr Cheema.

This is the audition for Mr Cheema, being a teacher he was formal and took direction well, although we feel he was not sincere enough to get the role. Although he was clear we feel he delivered the lines well but he did not speak in the correct tone for a news reporter, so in our opening it would not sound realistic.

Filmed By Lauren Dinnes and Jess Foster
Edited By Lauren Dinnes
Voice-over By Jess Foster
Analysis by Jess Foster

Audition for the Father - Paul Smith

This is the audition for Gorden Dinnes.

We thought it would be a good idea to have a group audition.

Gorden Dinnes came unprepared and did not take direction. He was constantly looking at his script and did not act or consider movement. For the role of the father we wanted him to be loving towards his family, however Gordan did not, we felt he was uncomfortable around the camera therefore we did not cast him.

Filmed by Lauren Dinnes

Edited by Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over by Jess Foster

Analysis by Jess Foster

This is the audition for Mr Cheema.

As Mr Cheema was a father and a teacher we though he would be perfect for the role as he spends everyday around children. Although he was not able to get to our location therefore we could not cast him.

Filmed By Jess Foster and Lauren Dinnes

Edited By Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over By Jess Foster

Analysis By Jess Foster

Audition for the Mother - Paige Smith

This is the audition of Jane Dinnes.

We thought it would be better to have the audition in a group for the mother.

Jane's audition showed us that she was able to put the right emotions to the character that we wanted her to play. She was able to project her voice and play the part taking in the directions that we gave her, she fitted into the age range that we were looking for.

The only criticism that we had with the audition is that at times she wasn't able to hold the emotion and found herself laughing quite a lot.

Analysed By Lauren Dinnes

Filmed By Lauren Dinnes

Edited By Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over By Jess Foster

This is an audition for Joanna Dennis.

Joanna Dennis done well previously in her audition for the News Reporter so we could not cast her for the role of the mother 'Paige Smith'. However commenting on her audition, she was able to take direction and done well acting with another person. When Lauren Dinnes did not deliver the line as the father, Joanna done well to improvise and stayed in character.

Filmed By Jess Foster and Lauren Dinnes

Edited By Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over By Jess Foster

Analysis by Jess Foster

This is the audition for Tara Saylik.


Tara Saylik had instant chemistry with her daughter therefore making her great for the role. However in the background it was distracting for her, but she still stayed in character. This enabled us to come to a great decision that she would be great for the role of 'Paige Smith'.

Filmed By Laura Thomas and Amy Welsh
Edited By Lauren Dinnes
Voice-over By Jess Foster
Analysis By Jess Foster

Audition for the Villian

This is the audition for Robert.

Robert was across as a very confident person, he took all the direction that was given to him and even put emotion into it. The direction that we gave him was very hard and it was difficult to see how he would perform during the rest of the film by him just looking in a mirror. Jess Foster who directed the audition told him what to do whilst it was filming as well as before he started, to give him an idea of what he had to do. As he did it to the standard that we were looking foe as a group we decided to cast him for the part of the villian within our film.

Analysed By Lauren Dinnes
Filmed By Jess Foster
Edited By Lauren Dinnes
Voice-over By Jess Foster


This is the audition for Andrew Johnson.

Andrew Johnson had a huge confidence problem as well as not being able to hold the emotion that we wanted him to. Even though he fell into the correct age range and looked like the person we originally wanted to cast for that character as a group we decided not to cast him for the part of the villian.

Analysed By Lauren Dinnes
Filmed By Lauren Dinnes
Edited By Lauren Dinnes
Voice-over By Jess Foster

Auditions for the Little Girl - Abbie Smith

This is the audition for Jenna Dinnes.

We found that it would be easier to do a group audition for the mother, father and little girl.

From Jenna's audition we liked how she was able to project her voice.

We found that she didn't have as much confidence as we would want her to be.

She was able to take a certain amount of direction, which we thought could work in the later production of our film opening.

Analysed By Lauren Dinnes

Filmed By Lauren Dinnes

Edited By Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over By Jess Foster

This is the audition for Lauren Radley.

Lauren Radley's audition was really good, she was able to project her voice, and had loads of confidence whilst she was performing.

Even though she was able to have these two things, she didn't fall into the right age range that we wanted for the character, we wanted someone a bit younger to play the part in order to show more innocence. We also had the problem of not being able to get Lauren to the locations at the times that we wanted to film, due to it being within school time.

Analysed By Lauren Dinnes

Filmed By Jess Foster and Lauren Dinnes

Edited By Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over By Jess Foster

This is the audition for Angel Mayden.

We auditioned Angel due to the age range that she falls into, she is the perfect age for the part we wanted. Shes very sweet as herself and when we gave her the line to read she was able to do it without a problem at all. We did find a slight lack of confidence but we put it down to her age and shyness. We would have liked her to have projected her voice a bit more just to show us that she was able to do that.

Analysed By Lauren Dinnes

Filmed By Laura Thomas and Amy Welsh

Edited By Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over By Jess Foster

This is the audition for Sophie Thomas.

With Sophie we really liked personality that she was able to put into the character and the projection of her voice. The criticisms that we have with this audition is that we found that she wasn't able to keep the emotions that we want the character to portray within the film. She's also slightly over the age range that we want for the characters which is also a problem.

Analysed By Lauren Dinnes

Filmed By Laura Thomas and Amy Welsh

Edited By Lauren Dinnes

Voice-over By Jess Foster

After looking at all of the auditions for the little girl as a group we decided on Angel to play the part. The reasons for this is because of her age and her ability to part the part how we wanted it to be done. Once she had got over the shyness and had learnt the lines she was able to project her voice perfectly, put emotion into the lines as well as having the confidence.

Auditions

Within our film we have eight different characters, these are the mother, father, little girl, villain and the four news reporters. For each character we have auditioned 2 - 3 people so that we could get a wide variety of actors. We asked each actor to read from a script that we provided and we gave them directions to go by as well to see how they acted under direction.

Notes on Titles

For the opening to our film we had to consider the timings in which titles for the film would appear.
From previous research into the psychological thriller genre we found that the main actors name would be introduced first, then the title and finally the rest of the casting and crew. Normally a location and time (historical) would be set at the end of the title sequence into the opening.
Taking all this into consideration we have decided to base our titles in a similar way.

Institutional Logos - Production Titles
News Report Montage
0.17-0.20 - Main Actors name
News Reports and Images
0.32-0.38 - Title (The Ticklist)
0.43-0.46 - Actor 2 (Name)
0.48-0.51 - Actor 3 (Name)
0.53-0.55 - Actor 4 (Name)
0.58-1.00 - Casting
1.01-1.03 - Costume Design
1.04-1.06 - Sound
1.07-1.09 - Photography
1.10-1.12 - Executive Producers
1.14-1.16 - Producers
1.18-1.20 - Writer and Director
Into main opening setting - use of dates and time (historical).

Written by Amy Welsh

Institutional Logos

We had to come up with a range of logos for our film productions which would feature at the very beginning of our opening so we thought up and created different ideas and decided on which we felt was most appropriate for our filming with regards to our genre.
These are some of our ideas:

We decided to incorporate our group name within one of our designs. The colour blue also fits in with our genre of psychological thriller as it is a symbol of this genre through the use of water and mirrors.

The idea of this institutional logo is that the waves are crashing like the sea which reveals the name of the institution 'Blue Productions'.

We decided to give this as an idea as pearl and the colour pink can be shown to be precious and innocent which can be conveyed as one of the themes in our film. The clam would open up showing the two pearls with the lettering inside in a fancy writing style (which is still readable).

Moonlit productions gives and eerie feel and a sense of mystery so we decided to go with a logo based around this idea. It shows a full moon and half moon within the logo and the camera will slowly pan around the moon revealing the title as it goes. The title will twinkle as it fades out.

Drawn by Jess Foster

We would then need a second, motionless institutional logo for the niche market. This was one of our ideas which shows an eagle eye symbolises courage and bravery as this could be seen as the solution of our film suggesting dominance. The titling would be in a decorative writing. 

Drawn, Developed & Written by Amy Welsh

Notes and images on props and costumes (initial)

We have selected a small blue bow for the young child to wear when she goes missing. The Blue represents the psychological thriller meaning, it represents water and mirrors which are most related to psychological thrillers. We also went for a light blue to connnote innocence for the young girl who will be wearing the bow.

At the end of the film opening, in the scene with the mother, father and the young child the father takes his briefcase showing he is a business man on his way out to work. We have selected a black case to make him look professional and show he works in a professional enviroment.

In the montage scenes there are scenes including a tick list of paper on a clipboard, the tick list has the titles on them, one by one getting ticked off. We will use a black clipboard to add a dark atmosphere to the scenes, connoting danger and death.

School uniform for little girl.

White shirt with grey pinifor and blue cardigan and tie

Tends to show innocence and symbolises genre.

In the media industry, childrens innosence is often exaggerated to further seperate them from the adult world to create an image of the 'baddies' and 'goodies' in the film.

This can be shown through the use of clothing so we have gone with a school uniform with colours that rae used to portray innoncece strongly.

 The main male in the film (dad) will be seen wearing a suit as he is a business man with a high authority job so he needs to be conveyed this way. In our opening, he is not seen as a major colour so a grey will be used for the suit. 

This shows a lab coat as the main woman in our opening (mum) as she is a scientist. The use of white clothing shows innocence and purity and could lead to suggest she is going to resolve the main issue of the storyline.

By using the colour white also shows how similar she is to the innocence of her child whcih would further portray her naivity towards the world and therefore making more a shock when she finds out things are not so.

The black hoodie will be used for the villain in our film as it immediately connotes darkness and evil. This could also suggest death.

We have decided to go for old tatty boots as they would come across scary to the audience. We may think about using the colour black instead of this light colour to portray the evil and darkness further,

We also thought about giving the villain a more normal dress sense as it contradicts the colour black and therefore contradicts the evil making him look less obvious to the audience. However, we have still included the colour red which connotes death and blue to incorporate the genre of the film but in a more casual sense.

Notes and images on props done by Laura Thomas
Notes and images on costumes done by Amy Welsh

Feedback on the Final Storyboard

Once we finished our second draft of the storyboard we got another group to look at it and give us feedback on what they thought about it.
This is the feedback that we received:

Positive Feedback:
Its really detailed.
We really like the way you've thought about the title and how you want to do it.
Overall you have a really good idea.

Constructive Feedback:
I think you should get rid of the conversation between the girl and her parents at the end and just stop it at the girl walking down the stairs.

Our group then talked about the feedback that we received and said that the only reason we should keep the conversation at the end is so that it doesn't look like a trailer, by having a normal piece at the end the audience don't know whats going to happen so we can keep it as a really good open narrative and it also looks like an opening and not a trailer.

Final Storyboard

Box 1 -

Live news report

Brief description of the missing girl

Some details of when see went missing and where she was last seen.

Lasts for 6 seconds

Use of Mid shot

The report is still going on whilst we see the CCTV footage

Box 2 -

CCTV footage of the missing girl when she was last seen.

Its lasts for 4 seconds

Use of Long shot

Blur and black out the picture around the girl so that the audience can see her clearly.

Box 3 -

Live news report more information on the situation but on a different channel played over the other news report to make it louder.

It lasts for 4 seconds

Use of Mid shot.

Box 4 -

Close up of a photo of the missing girl on the wall

Lasts for 3 seconds

Whilst we see this we can still hear the two different news reports over the top.

Box 5 -

Close up of the missing girl in the same photo but her face is smeared and warped.

Lasts for 3 seconds

Box 6 -

We see and hear four more news reports over the top of the previous two.

Its getting faster and louder

Lasts for 5 seconds

Box 7 -

Three more news reports are added again getting louder and faster to add tension.

Lasts for 4 seconds

Box 8 -

The title then appears by being written on a piece of paper.

Use of Close Up

Last for 6 seconds

Box 9 -

We see the girl walking along a path

Use of Long shot

Lasts for 5 seconds

Box 10 -

We then see a quick flicker to an extreme close up of a bow on the floor of which the girl was wearing.

It lasts for 3 seconds

Box 11 -

Back to the girl walking down the path

Long shot

Lasts for 4 seconds

Box 12 -

All the diegetic and non-diegetic sound cuts out so its completely silent.

Cuts to a black screen

Lasts for 2 seconds

Box 13 -

Music starts to play

Use of a long shot and over shoulder shot of the girl cleaning her teeth we see her reflection in a mirror

Lasts for 6 seconds

Box 14 -

The girl bends down to spit and we see a mans reflection in the mirror

Long shot and over shoulder shot

Lasts for 6 seconds

Box 15 -

Long shot of the girl just looking in the mirror wiping her face.

Lasts 4 seconds

Box 16 -

The girl walks down the stairs

Low angle shot

Lasts 3 seconds

Box 17 -

The music stops playing

The girl sits at the table with the mum and dad and they start to have a conversation

Long shot of the characters and the table

Lasts for 15 - 20 seconds



Initial Script

Scene 1
Montage of news reporters
(Each reporter is in the specif interior or exterior setting. All showibng concerned facial expressions, and speaking firmly and signifying the seriousness of the topic)

News Reporter one:             Children missing all over England.

News reporter two:              Young children disappearing.

News reporter three:             Brown hair, green eyes

News reporter four:              Have you seen them?
(At this point the voices over overlap as we see footage of various shots of Angel, cctv, etc.)
News reporter One:               Look online for details.

News reporter Two:                Many families being ripped apart

News reporter Three:           Mystery disappearances.

News reporter Four:             Police are on the case.

News reporter One:             Children last seen: (DATES)

News reporter Two:         Every year more than 100000 children go missing it has nearly doubled this year.

News reporter Three:        Children going missing all over the UK.

News reporter Four:          The effects on the families are massive.

News reporter One:            If you see her please call

News reporter Two:            Please help.

News reporter Three:         Will anyone stop them?

News reporter Four:        Families distraught at missing loved ones

(The news reporters gradually get louder and faster over lapping until it instantly cuts out and the non-diegetic music is played over the title.)

Scene 2
Title appears on screen (handwritten) – creative. Music introduced
See young girl walking through field. Twitch. Shows her headband left on the floor. Twitch. Back to girl walking again as if her disappearing didn’t happen.
-Introduced to actors

(Black) – Music cuts out

Scene 3
Girl is brushing her teeth in the bathroom and goes to spit out in the sink. As she ducks her head, we see the villain standing at the mirror. And then from another shot we see he has gone again.
Girl walks downstairs to be greeted by her mum and dad for breakfast.

Mum:         What are you having for breakfast?

Dad:            All ready for school sweetheart?

Girl:            Toast please, yes my bag is ready

Dad:            Who’s taking you to school this morning?

Mum:          I’ve got an important meeting, so you’ll have to do it

Dad:            I’m running late as it is, I’ve got to go now, bye (shouts as he walks out)

Girl:            I’ll walk this morning; I’ll stop by Becky’s or something.

Written and developed by Amy Welsh & Laura Thomas

1st Draft Storyboad

This is our first draft storyboard. The benefits we get from this is that we can play about with our opening idea's and finalize them roughly so that we know exactly what we are doing when it comes to our final storyboard. 

Considering Mise-en-scene

Mise en scene is a major part of our film opening we thought in great detail about what we would need to include in order to make our

film opening as realistic and as effective as possible.

first Scenes/section:

In the first part of our film we have the montages with various news reports, cctv screens and a ticklist of names being ticked off

one by one.

News reports:

In the news reports there will be studio lighting therefore being realistic like normal news reporting studio does.The actors will all

be wearing suites to look smart and will all have make up to match the character. They will be sat at desks and will have either a

backdrop of a news reporting stuido or we will edit one in.

Props needed:

There is no main props needed for the news reports other than paper for the characters to look like they are reading

and speaking out the facts.We can buy paper or just take A4 paper from one of our teams homes. The tables and chairs that will be required

will either be borrowed from CVHS if permition is given or will be borrowed from another person from our teams home.

CCTV:

In the CCTV scenes of the montage there will be a young child on the screen of a TV or PC which can be seen by the camera and therefore

the auidence. The lighting will be natural as it is recorded but may be changed during editing depending on the effects available

and what effect is most effective and realistic.

Props needed:

In the CCTV filming we will need a live CCTV camera linked up to a TV or PC. One of the team members has a CCTV camera on their house

which is linked up to a TV, we will use this for our filming.

Tick List Scene:

During the montage there will be scenes of a list with one item being ticked off at a time. We have cleverly thought to add out titles

onto the tick list so each time we see the tick list a title will be shown and ticked off. In editing we will use an effect that highlights

one line per shot of the ticklist.

Props needed:

For these clips we will simply need a clipboard with paper attached and pen which we can borrow from school with permission.

Field Scene:

In this scene the young girl is walking in a field before the camera twitches and the girl has gone.

Props needed:

The young girl will need to wear her school uniform which the team will purchase. The young girl is wearing a bow in her hair and the bow is left

on the floor when she has left.

Bathroom Scene:

In this scene the young child is cleaning her teeth while looking in the mirror. As she bends down to spit the toothpaste into the sink

the villain is standing behind her looking into the mirror. When the young girl looks up and walks out of the room we see that the villain has gone.

Props needed:

In this scene we will need a toothbrush and toothpaste for the young girl to use which the team will buy. There will need to be a mirror on

the wall of the bathroom used large enough for the camera to see the characters in. 

Breakfast Scene:

In this scene the young girl walks downstairs into the ktchen where her mother and father are eating breakfast and talking. She eats breakfast before

her father leaves for work. She stays in the kitchen talking to her mother.

Props needed:

The props needed for this scene will be the perfect set of stairs which allow the camara to get the correct angles on. There will also need to be a spotless

kitchen with everything put away apart from breakfast. The props for breakfast will be bowls of cereal, cereal boxes, 2 cups of coffee and a glass of juice

for the child. A newspaper which the father will be reading and the father will also pick up his briefcase on the way out. We will borrow these props from

one of the team member's family.

Written by Laura Thomas