Thirteen First Draft

Although this video is about 7 minutes long, what you acctually need to watch is about 2 minutes. The reason for it being so long is because the audio track continues after the video is finished.

Filming Rough Draft

 

We filmed all of the basic shots in which we needed to create the first draft and meet the deadline. We stuck to the story board and filmed the therapy convosation from three different angles so we had a variety of shots to edit with.

 These images show where we filmed and how we helped to create a realistic scene with the little amount of time we had.
The tripod was improvised using a collection of boxes. Unfortunatley this created a static affect when filming a pan etc. We are looking for a smooth affect so it looks professional.

 Myself and Rachel will be re shotting majority of all of our shots over the christmas break. This will allow us more time to film everything to a better standard and hopefully create the setting to have a larger amount of verisimilitude.

Props and Costume planning

Notebook + pen

We decided to just use this simple american style notebook as it was easy to get access off as I owned one.











Collection of books 
We decided to film in my summer house the scenes during therapy. However my mum uses the summer house for her sewing business. To cover up the machines we used deviders. On the other side of the room you could see other aspects mum uses within her business, to cover this and create a sense of verisimilitude we used a large collection of books.

Benjmamin Winters
Casual suit

• Black trousers
• White shirt
• No tie or jacket

Jasper Wynee
present:

• Simple black trousers
• oversized winter jumper
• Old battered trainers
• Hair up and messy
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past:

•  Green jumper
• Black trousers
• Blue Puffa jacket

Collette Wynee
Her outfit is quite a careless look.

• Simple blue jeans for a casual look. 
• A christmas jumper. (festive spirit)
• Hair just down, messy and natural.

Change of Plans

The actors for our characters have changed, this is due to late notice and work situations. George Bartram (Benjamin Winters) is stuck at work and we cannot get a hold of him on the day which we had planned to film. Alice Malyon( Jasper Wynee) has personal siutations which prevents her from joioning us aswell. This created a slight problem with the plans. However, Rachel and I at last minute has now decided that myself will be portraying the role of Jasper Wynee. And our friend Elliot Hall will be portaying Benjamin Winters. Also within these last minute descions my mother will be portraying the role of Collette Wynee. These descions would work affectively as she is my acctually mother so the look alike bond will be there to create verisimilitude.

Elliot Hall

Elliot Hall: Benjamin Winters
Elliot is a good friend of myself and Rachel, and I know first hand he is good at acting, I trust he will be okay with this.









Joelle Riley: Jasper Wynee

Joelle Riley

I have been doing drama since I was 4 years old. I have much professional background so I feel comfortable portraying this role.

Collette Riley

Collette Riley: My mum is a really confident person so I trust she will be okay with filming with us. She is only needed for some short sections and she never really needs to speak on camera or see her alot. This role is only really needed for extreme close up etc.

Summer House

There was also a chnage of plans with the filming of the Therapy Room. Unfortunately we were not able access to the study area of Nottingham Contemporary as it was going through re-construction. Due to inconvience we decided to film inside of my living. After lots of disscussion we came to the conclusion of filming in my summer house. This was because it was out of the way and as similar to the study as possible.

Summer House

Methhods Of Research

I went into Word and created a table to demonstrate the different types of research and the advantages and disadvantages.

Questionaire Analysis

I left my questionaire ( primary research) over 5 days for people to complete. I thought I would gain around 10-20 responses so I could evaulate them. However when going back to these responses this morning I discovered  that we had only gained 6 responses. This is dissapointing as I would have hoped to analysis more as then I would have a wider knowlage of what the majoirty of my audience wants to see within a thriller film.
But with the 6 responses I got, im confident I can still be provided with that knowlage.

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

This question has told me that the majority of my audience is 12-16 year olds, but still aged over. This lets my know that I should target my audience to be that age.

Question 4

Question 5

Question 6

Question 7

Question 8

Questoin 9

Question 10

Question 11

My target audience mostly watch thrillers once a month. This suggest that they enjoy watching thrillers but dont go out of their way to watch one all the time. This tells me that I should make mine suspensful enought to draw viewers in.

Everyone who answered had watched a seperate thriller movie each, however two of them answered prisoners.








From reviewing there opinion ive gained an understanding that they enjoyed these thriller films. For this I will attempt in conducting some research into these so I cant take inspireation fron them.





Everyone who answered started that suspensful was the most important. So I will work to make mine suspensfull. Secondly they want mystery. So I will work to make it mysterious. Thirdly music and costume had the same result. Personally I think music is a really important aspect towards creating suspence and mystery, so I will work hard on that.

Surprisingly, half answered that they would want a female protagonist. This surprised me as most thrillers often have the female as a character of innocence, and male normally this strong protagonist. My thriller challenges this as I have a female protagonist.
100% said that they think a crescendo works well within a thriller film. So I will definitly be including this.







100% also said that the main location should be within a Therapy Room. This is good as I orignally wanted to film in a therapy room, but I thought it would be good to gain some responces as to where my audience thought we should film.





Majoirty said that the title of our thriller should be 'Thriteen' or '13'. However after that its really mixed as to what we should call our thriller. They all got votes which suggest that they liked all of the titles. Me and Rachel are going to have to have a discussion as to what to name it.


66.7%  of responces said that the titles should be at the begining. Typically if ttiles are at the end it could make it look like a trailor. Howver, if it is used with a crescendo then it could be quite affective.





Majority of our answers stated that they were male. However i do not trust this to state that the majority of all of our viewers are going to be male as there was only 6 responces.

Actors Profiles

Jasper Wynne:
Portrayed by Alice Malyon
Myself and Rachel beleived Alice would be the perfect actress for portray Jasper as we feel she can relate to the look of her alot. Alice has red long curly hair, this was the main aspect which lead us to choosing her. This was because we felt that her bright red hair would help to tie in with the mise-en-scene of her character, demonstrating her anger and depression. Also Alice is a good friend of mine which i knew from a drama academy. The idea that she enjoys drama means that it would be easy to work well with her. Also we knew that she would be able to carry out the role well and take direction really easy.


Benjamin Winters :
Portrayed by George Bartram
George Bartram is a very down to earth a good person. Because of his sensibility I believed he would be perfect for portraying this role. He is a very serious actor so I know he will take the responsibility on full force. He is a good friend of mine so direction will be easy and there is a good bond between director and actor. He also attends Inspire accademy so is allready on a friendship level with Alice. This will make it easier between them when acting together.











Collette Wynne
No descions have been made yet. It is difficult to cast this role as we want an adult to portray her. However i am on no personall level with an adult actresses so we are struggerling at the moment to find someone.

Questionaire

Myself and Rachel Pride made a questionaire based upon our thriller movie to gain insight as to what our target audience would want. During my research I discovered that most thrillers are aged appropiate towards 18+. I want to make mine more suitable for a younger generation aswell.

https://docs.google.com/a/george-spencer.notts.sch.uk/forms/d/1KGrNbBRAN2ikjqQe0cuI-WzqlwivlMBAp2kgU8K3rp8/prefill

The link above is the link towards the questionaire I made on Google Forms. I chose to do my questionaire on google forms as I believed it was easy accessability for studenst in my class and others to answer. 

Title Planning

Draft of Titles

 Whilst planning our titles, we thought it would be best to set it our like a storybaord so we would have a clear idea as to what titles would appear on which shot. We tried to attempt to it would work effectively with that specific shot. For example, when you recive the first clear shot of Jasper it says her actresses name underneathe it. Same with Benjamin.

Title Storyboard

Another example is when Jasper opens her eyes, after being sucked into a flashback

Studio Logo Construction

When deciding the logo of our company we wanted to base it of something which has meaning towards us. Mine and Rachels friendship symbol is a peach. So we believed it would work affectively. We found an image of  a peach of google images so we were able to be creative with it through photoshop. We imported the image into photoshop so we could take different sizes and colours into consideration.
For the font we logged into Dafont.com. We initally found the font used within our first logo, we found others but didnt use them straight away.
When working on the first logo, Rachel inniciated using a pink colour scheme. This was because we both love the colour pink, so this uses aspects of our friendship aswell. We created a gradient background so it faded up to white as the peach does aswell. It resembels where the light hits it.

For the font we found a font called Crystal Breath.This is because it stood out alot to us and catched our eye. It is also a very recognisable font.

We decided to create another logo so we would have a couple to choose from. For this we kept the colour scheme the peach colour. The peach was duplicated three times and each time it fades slightly untill its transparent. The words Peach Production was placed aroudn the peach to create a rectangle shape.
I prefer this shape as a rectangle allows the logo to fit more into corners etc.

The writing for this logo was chosen off Dafont.com was Calendulia. This font also stood out and was memorable. I prefer this font to the other as the little carvings within the font are smaller and more compact which I believe gives it a overall better affect.
Rachel and I have chosen to go with the second option  for our studio logo.

Risk Assessment

Filming locations

Living Room

Therapy Room

Living Room

For now the only descion made on this location will be my living room. The reason for this is because the set out is as smiliar as we can make it. There is a black L leather sofa, where the characters can sit on. There are book cases surrounding the room to give it that professionnal vibe we were aiming for. Orignally we wanted to have filmed inside of the Study of the Nottingham Contempory. However last week I rang up the contempory to see if it was possible to film in this location. The response given provided the answer that the study was going through refurbishment, this means we were not allowed access to the room. This location would have been perfect a it has views overlooking to city which would have allowed us to take some intresting shots. The room was all painted white and filled with bookcases with two sofas where our characters could sit on.

Study

The Push ( Stairs)

Stairs

Stairs

This section of the opening sequence we thought we could film on my stairs at home. We believed this to be a good location as rthere is lots of space to allow us to film. The entire of the upstairs hallway is painted white and there is little light comming through which will allow us to have the low key lighting we disire.





Flash backs 
These flashbacks have been given to us through Alice ( actress portraying the protagonist, Jasper)
These videos are acctaully videos taken of her as a child so this will work well to provide the idea of naturalism and make it more realistic. So for theses we have no controll over what locations these videos were taken in.


More Present
These flashbacks are going to taken at several locations. Typically surrounded by nature. This is to add a haunting affect and will be filmed dyuring night time hopefully.
These locations will included:

Wollaton Hall

• Side street road along side of my house.
• Cookies Pond. ( a pond with large trees and bench)
• Maybe Wollaton Hall if needed. 

Original StoryBoard

Myself and Rachel Pride made this basic Storyboard which is the original copy of how we want our thriller to bascially go. It demonstartes the shot types and helps to guide us as to what we are doing. Throughout the process of filming and planning I have no doubt that shots will change and ideas will mix up abit. With this story board I am not 100% happy with the variety of shot types. When filming I will like to add in more and make it more complex and professional.

Rachel and I then sat down and began to create a Prezi which would allow us to tell our Story board in a more complex way and write paragraphs underneathe explaining everything that is occuring wihtin the shot and expand on the sotry line.