Music (Dushi)

Choosing the music for our film 'The Following' was very difficult. In the end we did come to a decision. But the other ideas were also suitable for our film. The first choice of music was from the game Mordern warfare, which had a nice tension raising music. Click on the links below to listen...

Mordern Warfare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvCgoP5oY9Q



In the end we decided on the music of Halo, this suited the film as it had a slower tone and suited the way atmosphere of the film. Plus the other option of music was simply too fast for out film. This music suited it perfectly. Click on the link below to listen to the music.

Halo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFOJ13sw8o4

Thriller Movie Research (Dan)

Thriller is a genre of literature, film and television that uses suspense, tension and excitement as the main elements. The primary subgenres of thrillers are: mystery, crime and psychological thrillers. After the assassination of President Kennedy, political thriller and paranoid thriller films became very popular. The brightest examples of thrillers are the Hitchcock’s movies.

A genuine, standalone thriller is a film that provide thrills and keeps the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the characteris placed in a menacing situation, mystery, or an escape from which escaping seems impossible. Life is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation.


The Dark Night was one of my favourite thriller movies, featuring one of the classic thriller movie villains, The Joker, well known by his scary make-up, like war paint, a lot of people will know him by his costume and make up. Also his voice in my opinion is fantastic, it is so reconisable and is a voice which creates a sense of tension and fright.

A great example of his voice is this scene, featured in The Dark Night...




Settings and locations: The best setting and locations would be creepy, dark old places, use of location can help build tension and suspense which is vital in a thriller movie.

Thrillers mostly take place in ordinary suburbs/cities. Though sometimes, they may take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions, or high seas. The heroes in most thrillers are frequently ordinary citizens unaccustomed to danger. However, more common in crime thrillers, they may also be "hard men" accustomed to danger, like, police officers and detectives. While such heroes have traditionally been men, women lead characters have become increasingly common.

Location (Dushi)

Our Location which we choose for our project is Halstead at Star Stiles. The reason we choose this location is because of the alienated atmosphere and bieng off the road which we wanted to use in our thriller clip. The road will also be free to use as there will not be many people around the area. The other reason for choosing the location is we wanted a place which will look deserted and a creepy place which will build tension. We also needed to take into cosideration that we did not want too many passers by, so a quite, "out of the way" location like this is perfect. The tall trees in the area also help to create shadows, and they are intimidating and it is quite erie at this place in the dark.

Here is an image I took from Google Maps of our location...

preliminary task

Storyboard (Dan)

This is our storyboard plan for our film - "The Following"

Initial Idea (Dushi)

The scene begins with an out of focus shot on a peice of paper, being help up vertically, with the contents of the paper in shot. The shot is out of focus and blurry to begin with, and it is slowly focused so the text and images on the paper become visible. On the paper, is a collumn on the far right (half the width of the page).
In the collumn, are 3 images of people's faces, vertically alligned. And on the left hand side is a small paragraph of text next to each image, describing the person next to it, and why its being targeted. The top two pictures have a stamped (terminated) on the face of the target, with the bottom one the only one without the terminated sign. (this shows the audience that the bottom target, is alive, and the next target for the murderer/assasin).

The scene will then fade or cut into a tracking slow motion shot, with the camera being in a wide alleyway, focused on a the person thats picture is bottom right on the paper, previously seen on the first shot. the person walks from one side of the footpath in show on the left side of the camera shot, and continues to walk until out of view, to the far right of the camera shot. During this, the camera moves back smoothly as the person is about to go to the half way point, in the centre of the camera shot. as the camera moves slowly backwards, it focuses out on the person walking, causing it to go blurry, and then focuses in on a car parked in the alleyway, and then focuses more on the wing mirror and zooms into it, to where you can see a man, with a red scarf around his face, concealing all but his eyes sitting in the drivers seat of the car. The man is watching the person walk past in slow motion. The camera then zooms out, and focuses on the entire scene, so everything is visibly clear, as the person walks from the centre of the shot, to out of view.

The scene then disolves somehow, to an over the shoulder shot of the person opening there front door, stepping in, putting there bag down, turning a lamp on, and then walking into the kitchen to make a cup of tea. as the person boils the kettle, the shot is changed to a medium shot, showing the torso upwards of the person, along with the persons kitchen. The person then picks up the tea, and the shot is a point of view shot, as the person is walking down a hallway, into a dark living room. the person sits down and sighs. The shot is now a shot reverse shot, as a lamp is switched on, on the other side of the living room, and a man sitting in an armchair, with a gun in one hand, and a red scarf on his face is revealed.
The person makes an attempt to run out of the room, but the man was too quick. He shot him in the head, first shot, without fail. The man then walks over to the body and drops the red scarf onto the dead persons body. this shot is in black and white (but the scarf is blood red), slow motion, and is a low angle shot.



Monday  
21:21
1/11/2012