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