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